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Palakkad is the gate through which you can enter Kerala from Tamil Nadu during your Kerala holidays. Take a short bus trip from Coimbatore, the famous town of Tamil Nadu and within one hour you are down at Palakkad! While having your Kerala holidays you can see a true concoction of two different cultures at Palakkad including in the customs and manners. The blending is done in a perfect way resulting in the creation of a genuine Palakkadan culture!
While entering Kerala from Tamil Nadu during your Kerala holidays, you will be greeted by the enormous Western Ghats with copious scenic beauty scattered throughout the area. You can count this as the beginning of the grand environmental charms which you are going to witness in the course of your Kerala holidays. The eloquence with which nature speaks here is to be specially noted! Such is the grand scenic beauty! Ornamented by mountains, rivers, paddy fields and coconut trees, the entire scene will give you a pure celestial feeling! The starting of your Kerala holidays will be really grand in all senses.
Now that you are entering Palakkad in the course of your Kerala holidays you must know the popular story regarding the origination of the word ‘Palakkad’. In the local vernacular ‘Kaadu’ means ‘forest’ and ‘Paala’ is a typical plant belonging to the ‘Alsteria Scholaris’ group bearing fragrant flowers. So in the literary sense ‘Palakkad’ means the ‘forest of paala’. It is possible that once upon a time this place was a thick forest of ‘paalas’! Now while passing through this place during your Kerala holidays you can have some flying imaginations about those paala trees!
The diversified culture of Kerala which you are going to witness while having the Kerala holidays is getting a start at Palakkad. Palakkad is basically quiet and traditional and has got rich cultural inheritance of different origins. Within 4480 sq.km of Palakkad District itself you can see the beginning of the much noted diversity regarding the total customs and manners of the Kerala people! This diversity is applicable to the whole of India and that is why the famous phrase ‘unity in diversity’ was coined! While having the Kerala holidays you will be amazed to see the real vastness of Kerala’s culture!
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