The site, India Kerala, offers a kaleidoscopic overview of the natural beauty and richness of Kerala, God's own country as a travel tour to Kerala, god's own country, located in south India, India would reveal. The site, India Kerala, offers a golden opportunity to the willing traveler and tourist to undertake a travel tour to Kerala, god's own country to have a taste of the natural beauty and resplendence of Kerala, located in south India, India.
                 A travel tour to be accosted by the natural beauty of Kerala, would include a whole lot of natural bounty in the form of the azure waters by the side of the sandy spoils of beaches in Kerala, located in south India, India, and a rich tapestry of wildlife nestled amidst the hills and plantations in the sylvan surroundings of the order of Munnar, Idduki, Periyar, Coorg and other places of the same ilk.
                                                                             Water bodies and the scattered islets of the order of Kumarakom, Vembanad Lake, Champpakullam, an island hamlet, Kumarakom bird sanctuary and Marrai beach in Alleppey, lead to an increment in the natural beauty of Kerala, but, it is the snake boat races of Alappuzha which have given a lorish stature to the natural beauty of Kerala, located in south India, India. The Chundan Valloms or the well oiled large boats, bedecked in battle gears are the hallmark imagery attached to backwaters of Alappuzha which is a chief and primordial part of natural beauty of Kerala, god's own country, located in south India, India.
                                 The racers are all local warriors who live and prepare the boats together for the annual boat regalia. Nehru trophy boat race and Aranmula boat race are the two most popular races along with one long list of other less popular ones, which a willing traveler is bound to come to know about, on a travel tour to the backwaters of Alappuzha in god's own country, Kerala, south India, India.

Idduki- A Treasure Trove of Wildlife

Idukki as a fabled hill resort in Kerala, god's own country, located in Kerala, in south India, India, is houses the largest wild life sanctuary in India, which has an expanse of approximately 777 Kilometers in the district's forested land. Animal life of the order of Deer, Giant, and Malabar Squirrel abound in plenty in this scenic hill station in India. A tour to Kerala's natural beauty and wildlife would reveal even richer places that quadruple the beauty of Kerala, as a travel tour to Kerala, god's own country, in south India, India reveals. A travel tour to Kerala's natural beauty and wildlife showcases the quintessential Elephant rides, which act as the trademark beauty of Kerala, god's own country, located in south India, India. Periyar wildlife sanctuary is another of those attractions in the rich itinerary of natural beauty, which is home to creatures of the order of elephants, leopards and tigers.
                        Periyar wildlife sanctuary has led to the sustenance and the final success of Project Tiger, which began in the year, 1979. A travel tour to Kerala's natural beauty and wildlife would show that the wildlife sanctuary is home to other species of animals like, Nilgiri wood pigeon, the magnificent thrushes and the stunningly agile flycatchers which add stars to the natural beauty of Kerala, god's own country, located in south India, India.
                      

Tropical Forests In Kerala

                                  
                                      The site, India Kerala, arranges for a travel tour to the places rich in the tropical forests in Kerala, god's own country, located in south India, India. The site, India Kerala, offers a rare opportunity for the willing traveler/ tourist to undertake a guided travel tour to the places, which are replete with the expanse of wet jungles, dense equatorial forests fabled all over the world for their thick and rich growth of trees. A near to annual cycle of rainfall acts as the only penetrative agent apart from the narrow streams of sunlight, in the dense tropical forests in Kerala, south India, India.
The site, India Kerala, arranges for a guided travel tour to these regions infested with the rain rich tropical forests to unearth the sylvan mysticism of these wet woods, located in Kerala, god's own country, located in south India, India.
Vythiri is one place located in Kerala, god's own country, south India, India, which is home to a rich tapestry of deciduous evergreen tropical forests where the shimmering and gurgling streams run past the traveler's tracks and the wet and wild wind whispers sweet inanities in the ears of the traveler and nature connoisseur alike as a travel tour to the tropical forests in Kerala, god's own country, south India, India, would reveal to a prospective visitor to these misty, magical and wildlife rich tropical forests in Kerala, south India, India. Places of the order of Wildlife rich and thickly forested Munnar, Idduki, Potmendu, Coorg, etc are the prime centers of nature and forest tourism in Kerala, south India, India.
Keralese forests provide a discerning tourist to savor the delights of the complete gamut of flora and fauna with all its bio diversity intact. Moist deciduous forests of the order of teak and terminalia abound in the Kerala landscape with a major section of Kerala woods being constituted by the traditional "Sholas" which are typical of the entire western ghats in Kerala, located in south India, India.

Rivers:
          Rivers form part of the water cycle - the continuous circulation of water between the land, sea, and atmoshphere. The source of a river may be a mountain spring or lake, or a melting glacier. The course that the river subsequently takes depends on the slope of the terrain and on the rock types and the formations over which it flows. In its early, upland stages, a river tumbles steeply over rocks and boulders and cuts a steep - sided V- shaped valley. Farther downstream, it flows smoothly over the sediments and forms winding meanders, eroding sideways to create broad valleys and plains. on reaching the coast, the river may deposit sediment to form an estuary or delta.

 

 
Features:
             Rivers are one of the major forces that shape the landscape. Near its soirce, a river is steep. it erodes downwards, carving out V- shaped valleys and deep gorges. Waterfalls and rapids are formed where the river flows from hard rock to softer, more easily eroded rock. Farther downstream, meanders may form and there is greater side ways eroison, resulting in the broad river valley. The river sometimes erodes through the neck of a meander to form an oxbow lake. Sediment deposited on the valley floor by meandering rivers and during floods helps to create a flood - plain. Floods may also deposit sediment on the banks of the river to form levees. As a river spills into teh sea or a lake, it deposits large amount of sediment, and may form a delta. A delta is an area of sand - bars, swamps, and lagoons through which the river flows in several channels called distributaries for example. Often, a rise in the sea level may have flooded the river - moth to form a broad estuary, a tidal section where sea water mixes with the fresh water.  

Glaciers:
             A valley glacier is a large mass of ice that forms on land and moves slowly downhill under its own weight. It is formed from snow that collects in cirques and compresses into ice as more and more snow accumulates. The cirque is deepened by frost wedging and abrasion and aretes develop between adjacent cirques. Eventually, so much ice builds up that the glacier begins to move downhill. As the glacier moves its collects moraine, which may range in size from particles of dust to large boulders. The rocks at the base of the glacier erode the glacial valley, giving it a U - shaped cross-section.  Under the glacier, eroded outcrops of hard rock and drumlins are left behind the valley floor. The glacier end s at a terminus where the ice melts as fast as it arrives. If the temperature increases, the ice melts faster than it arrives, and the glacier retreats . the retreating glacier leaves behind its moraine and also erratics. Glacial streams form the melting glacier deposit eskers and kames, but carry away the finer sediment to form a stratified outwash plain. Lumps of ice carried on to this plain melt, creating holes called kettles.

Poems Of Nature:
                         
Beauty, unlike Love or Friendship or even Life, brings its own sweet reward. You don't have to bring Beauty into existence. You don't have to work at it. All that is required is that you appreciate it, as the poems you are about to read surely do.These poems are about Beauty, but more than that they are about the appreciation of it. In nature. In people. In the situations that make up our daily lives.Poetry is Truth. And perhaps the greatest Truth any of us can discover is that Beauty exists in our lives, only waiting to be found and recognized. And appreciated.



      Winds
 by Deba dutta

The kiss of wind-swept shores
The kind that are mine and yours
To watch brings peace of mind
The kind all of us wish to find
From God's own lips blown from above
Bringing waves of Joy, Peace and Love
May we always find, this peaceful place
Blown from above placed on our face
Winds of Serenity
Winds of Eternity
Winds of Love

Sea Love

By Deba dutta

To you a mountain chases out her soils
through the lost solidity of winter clothes
I see, ribbon-tumbled, these streams and wider rivers
across these lands, where my feet float over the green.

The rushers still in awe, on their approach to you,
their mouths, their last youth union with the earth
tide-embraced, those fresh children,
ushering the expanse of anonymity wandering
an intake of salted sand, and peace
at this, their mature quest.

Perhaps I am among them
as I walk the water's mark.

I am the mermaid, the siren, soon
happily I would go into these waves
and creature myself within your sheltering

those tributoried churns, and drift
of martyred shells, they hasten me,
I am exposed to need, and recognition
of the horizoned line beyond.

Surely I will swim, though land-bound yet,
from the water's mouth,
and see my land from another's view.

Minerals:

  A mineral ia a naturally occuring substance that has a characteristic chemical compostion and specific physical properties, such as habit and streak .A rock, by comparison is an aggregate of minerals and need not have a specific chemical compostion. Minerals are made up of elements(substances that cannot be broken down chemically into simpler substances), each of which can be represented by a chemical symbol. Minerals can be divided into two groups : native elements are made up of pure element. Examples include gold, silver, copper, and carbon ; carbon occurs as a native element in two forms, diamond and graphite. compounds are combinations of two or more elements. For example, sulphides are compounds of sulphur and are one or more other elements, such as lead in the mineral galena, or antimonv in the mineral stibnite.



Features:
              Minerals can be identified by studying features such as fracture, cleavage, crystal system, habit, hardness colour and streak. Minerals can break in different ways. If a mineral breaks in an regular way, leaving rough surfaces, it possesses fracture. If a mineral breaks along well -defined planes of weakness, it possesses cleavage. Specific minerals have distinctive patterns of cleavage; for example, mica cleaves along one plane. Most minerals form crystals, which can be categorized into crystals systems according to their symmetry and number of faces. within each system, several different but related forms of crystals are possible; for example, a cubic crystal can have six, eight, twelve sides. A mineral's habit is the typical form taken by an aggregate of its crystals. The relative hardness of a mineral may be asssessed by testing its resistance to scratching. This property is usually measured using Mohs scale, which increases in hardness from 1(talc) to 10 (diamond). The colour of a mineral is not dependable guide to its identity as some minerals have a range of colours. streak (the colour the powdered mineral  make when rubbed across an unglazed tile ) is a more reliable indicator.

Mineral Resources:
                            Mineral resources can be defined as naturally occuring substances that can be extracted from the earth and are useful as fuels and raw materials. coal, oil, gas - collectively called fossil fuels - commonly included in this group, but are not strictly minerals, they are of organic origin. Coal formation begins when vegetation is buried and partly decomposed to form peat. Overlying sediments compress the peat and transform it into lignite. As the overlying sediments accumulate, increasing pressure and temperature eventually transform the lignite into bituminous and hard anthracite coals. Oil and gas are usually formed from organic matter that was deposited in marine sediments. Under the effects of heat and pressure, the compressed organic matter under goes complex chemical changes to form oil and gas. The oil and gas percolate upwards through water - saturated, permeable rocks and they may rise to the earth's surface or accumulate below an impermeable layer of rock that has been folded or faulted to form a trap - an anticline trap, for example. Minerals are inorganic substances that may consist of a single chemical element, such as gold, silver, or copper,or combinations of elements. Some minerals are concentrated in mineralrization zones in rock associated with crustal movements or volcanic activity. Others may be found in sediments as placer deposits accumulations of higher - density minerals that have been weathered out of rocks, transported, and deposited on river - beds.

Nature Beauty

I sometimes stare at the sky and wonder why we have made such a mess of things. I wonder how we can tear up the seas and use up the trees all in the name of progress. It is such a tragedy that we are damaging things so fast and they will soon be way beyond repair.

It is very sad to think future generations will not have the natural things to enjoy as we have had, and that they will be paupers when it comes to the offerings of the natural world.

But, preserving nature is one thing ... appreciating it is quite another. There is so very much beauty all around us to see, touch, and hear. Nature is so miraculous because it is always changing. No matter how many times you look at something, it is always different.

Nature can set a sky aflame at sunset or magically transform a familiar landscape into a snow-white wonderland. It can paint a rainbow in the sky, paint beautiful autumn colors on trees, or paint a clump of daffodils in the grass with glow of soft sunlight.

Nature can bring a lot of beauty into our lives. Nature has a way of affecting our moods and it can force us to change our plans. Nature is responsible for the sun, clouds, rain, and snow. When it is sunny and bright outside, we feel cheerful inside. When it is cloudy and rainy, we often feel gloomy. When there is a beautiful and starry night, the moonlight makes us feel romantic.

When we see the leaves budding on a tree or when a timid flower pushes through the frozen ground, or when we smell the freshness of spring, new hope will always come to us. Nature is truly an intrinsic part of our lives.

When we wake and see a sunrise, when we walk and feel a breeze, when we gaze at the mountains and the splendor of the seas, when we see the earth renew its beauty at each season of the year, and when the stars shine at night, we should be so very thankful to the Lord for giving us all these wonderful and miraculous things. Learning to become more aware of nature can truly have a good effect on our lives in the way we look at things and in the way we feel about ourselves.

It is with much love that I dedicate these pages to a very special and wonderful person, Ginny Ellis. If it hadn't been for her, these pages would not be possible. I truly appreciate every beautiful poem that she has ever written. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, Ginny, for bringing so much beauty into the world.

I would now like to share with you some of Ginny's and other poets verses and other things that capture Nature's moods and majesty. They may evoke some memories and dreams I do hope you will find something that you will enjoy.

Some of the authors are unknown but if you know the correct source of items listed, I will appreciate hearing from you so corrections can be made and proper credit given.