BBC: Rural India draws in tourists

picklepak

The BBC published a short article Thursday about farmhouse tourism in Haryana. I love the quote below the picture, which reads: "When the nearest shop is miles away - this is how you make your butter".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3532959.stm

Rob_The_Pom

I'd love to do this! It'd be an incredible experience!

Any idea of prices?

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SHIMLA

Kudos to the Haryana Govt. for coming up with a new concept in tourism. Earlier, they had popularised the concept of highway tourism.

The following link may have some details:
http://htc.nic.in/

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indiamike

Doing a quick search on Google I found price quotes as 1500 for two people including all activites and meals and going up to 2500 for a cottage for two, all inclusive.

Now if you can convince Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie to join me I would be there in a heartbeat.



Mike

shere

Haryana is a great place. We have a village house in northern Haryana close to Punjab. The pace of life is more relaxed and rural than in a Punjabi village. I find the people are more friendly as well.

I shall be there for a few days during the first week of April before heading for Pakistan and then come back for the last week of April.

One word of warning some people find the pace a bit too relaxed and think it is boring but then there are a few local towns you can go to like Hissar, Fatehabad etc. I always find something to occupy my time.

fnm500

This is indeed a great idea.

But I hope the tourism companies (or Haryan tourism for that matter), keep the authenticity of these villages alive and don't make changes just to cater to those rich westernised Indians from Delhi who want the peace & quiet of the countryside but then also expect swimming pools, water parks, malls and jaccuzzis.

I'd hate to see these villages turn into 'resorts' or 'retreats' and become commercialised.

Its already worrying to see one of these areas named as 'Golden Dunes retreat'..I'm sure its original name was something else, in Hindi/Punjabi. But of late Indian property developers love giving western names to apartment complexes..names such as 'Park Avenue', 'Palm Springs' & 'Palm Court', because low self esteemed Indians feel they're living the good life if their apartment blocks are named so..

Anyway, I'm just being pedantic..

Good job by the HTDC..