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Kottayam Holidays India

Brisk commercial centre Kottayam is strategically located nearby plantations of spices, tea and rubber, woods and mountains Western Ghat in the east, in 76 km on a southeast from Cochin. You will love to enjoy Kottayam holidays.

It is a very interesting place and thus your holidays in Kottayam could be the best way if you want to spend your holidays in India. Holidays in Kottayam can be a really unique and interesting experience. Kottayam holidays will be your unforgettable experience.

The place offers a lot to the visitors. There are lots of places that you could visit while you are in Kottayam. Holidays in Kottayam can give you the picture of the actual India. You will get to know the place in better way.

Two churches from 13 century located on a hill in 5 km in northwest from the centre where it is possible to reach on a rickshaw, testify to long history of Kottayam as a settlement of the Syrian Christians.

Two Nestorian Stone crosses from 8 century with inscriptions in Pahlavi and Syrian languages, written down on each side of the intricately adorned altar of the Valliapalli Church (means big), possibly are the earliest material certificates of the existence of the Christianity in India.

In the book of visits there visitors of the church are noted down their impressions from 1890, including the Ethiopian king Haile Selassie and the British vice-king.

The interior of nearby church Cheriapalli (which means small) is decorated with an alive, but unskilful pictures, which were presumably painted by the Portuguese artist in 16 century.

The fine bird's reserve Kumarakom, located in the West, is better to visit at a dawn, before there will arrive crowds of tourists. Aranmula in the south is one of last villages, where people there still make metal mirrors kannadi, and in the same place there is a temple of Krishna, which arranges ritual “not competitive” boat contests.

Mahadeva Temple at Ettumanoor is located 13 km away from Kottayam. It is known as a place of dangerous and angry Shiva to the believers, and to fans of art - as the magnificent sample of temple architecture, decorated by woodcarving.

Panoramic mountain lakes, magnificent rice fields, high mountains, hills, extensive rubber plantations - Kottayam is all of these places associating with set of legends and general literacy of the population, which carrying an enviable title “the Earth of letters, latex and lakes”.

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