Tourism Places in Kozhikode
- Kappad beach
- Beypore Port
- Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary
- Thushargiri Waterfall
- Mananchara Maidan
- SM street
1) Kappad beach
Kappad is a historic beach of Kerala, India. It is located in the district of Calicut. Kappad beach is a charming beach with great natural beauty. The historic beach Kappad is the gate way to the Malabar Coast. The historic Kappad beach has is mentioned greatly in the texts related to both history and geography. The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sailed to India and stepped in the historic Kappad beach. Thus, today’s tourist Kappad beach entered the historic texts of India. There is a long term history of social political relationship between Indian and Europe on the shore of Kappad.
The spices and wealth of Kappad and Indian coasts attracted the Arabs, Greeks, Romans, Portuguese, Dutch and English to India. And Kappad had witnessed many of such arrivals of foreign traders.
Today’s Kappad beach is well known for its tourism. The Kappad beach tourism makes use of all the historic advantages of Kappad. The Kerala tourism intelligibly sells the historic value of the tourist place Kappad. The backwater Kappad beach route is a memorable journey.
The Kappad beach just 16km distant from the city of Calicut. It is a sad thing that there are no so many monuments revealing the history of the foreign relationship of the Indians of the Kappad beach. The main attraction of Kappad tourism is the 800 year old Devi temple. The way to the temple reveals the devotion of the Indians. The backwater Kappad beach is unspoiled and so is very beautiful. The gentle breeze on the Kappad beach makes us sleep and have a good to relax. Many of the Kappad beach tourists come here often to get rid of tension.
2) Beypore Port
Calicut is the midway between the two major southern ports of India – Cochin and Mangalore. And Beypore Port is just 10kms from Calicut town for easy reach. Beypore Port became a tourist spot as it has good connections with Europe and many other countries on trade. Many machines cum sailing vessels reach the Beypore Port every week. The Indian government has decided to take many projects for the development of the Beypore Port. The districts of Calicut, Wayanad, Malappuram, Kannur and Palakad depend on the Beypore Port for trade. Even the outer state Mysore, Bangalore and Coimbatore also depend on the Beypore Port.
Beypore Port has become a tourist spot as it exports timber finished goods, rubber, steel, textiles, coir, tea, coffee, cashew nuts, spices, pig iron, marine products, etc. Beypore Port also imports petroleum products, fertilizers, cement, etc. to India. All these have changed Beypore Port to tourist Beypore Port. The geographic conditions of Beypore Port are best suit for any type of international trade. It can get customers from Kerala, Karnataka and even Tamil Nadu states of India.
Beypore is a small village in the district of Calicut. Beypore at first was called as Vaypura by the natives of the place. It was later named as Sultan Pattanam (the city of Sultan) by the Sultan Tipu. Beypore Port is known for wooden ship building. So many of the tourists visit Beypore Port to see the art of building wooden ships.
The Beypore Port tours are a famous tourist spot of Kerala. The boat and ship builders have their own ethics of ship building. The Beypore Port ship building has a past history of nearly 1500 years. No much sophistication is used in Beypore Port ship building. The disciple of the Beypore Port ship builders is to be learned by all the sophisticated ones. You will feel like joining them.
3) Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary
The famous tourist place Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary is the biggest nest of the birds of Kerala, India. It has a collection of more than 100 types of birds altogether. Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary tourism presents us more than 60 species of migrant birds too. The Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary tour does not remain just with the birds rather the tourism Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary is rich with fishes, crabs, etc. The migrant birds of Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary fly away in the month of November and return only by the end of April every year.
The Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary tour package includes a wide area and beautiful hillocks. The Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary is over 3kms wide spread including a few islands. It is best to have a tour to Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary in the early hours of the day. The musical noise made by the birds to praise God is amazing and this beauty cannot be enjoyed in any other tourist place other than Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary tourism. We find many species of birds in Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary like terns, gulls, egrets, herons, sandpipers, brahmini kites and cormorants.
The tourism Bird Sanctuary Kadalundi is just 19kms from Calicut. It is the most attractive bird sanctuary of Kerala. Kerala tourism is proud of the Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary tourist spot. Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary is the safest shelter of birds in Kerala. The tour to Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary will enable you to see even some of the rare species of snakes. Be sure that you don’t hurt them. You can see snakes like cobra, krait, viper, etc. as part of the wild life tourism of Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary. The collection of birds includes woodpecker, black bulbul, white owl, jungle fowl, myna, peafowl, laughing thrush, etc. The hillocks you find there is 200 meters above the sea level. All these aspects and facts make the Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary tour the best in tourism.
4) Thusharagiri Waterfall
The beauty of the Thusharagiri Waterfall cannot be expressed in words. The white foamed water flow is amazing. The experience the Thusharagiri Waterfall tourism gives us is splendid. The best beauty of the Thusharagiri Waterfall tourism can be enjoyed from September to December. The gentle spray of water makes the Thusharagiri Waterfall tourists’ eye so cool. The River Chalippuzha splits in to three waterfalls and creates a snowy spray. The term ‘Thusharagiri’ means snowy hill. This natural tourist place looks more beautiful with the plantations of rubber, pepper, ginger, areca nuts and various spices.
Thusharagiri Waterfall tourism is the trekkers delight. A normal tourist may not enjoy the tour to Thusharagiri Waterfall well. It is because the Thusharagiri Waterfall tourism is an adventurous tourism with challenging trekking, slippery rock climbing and so on. The slippery rock climbing of Thusharagiri Waterfall is really adventurous. You must be iron hearted to enjoy the Thusharagiri Waterfall tour.
This waterfall tourist place is located in the district of Calicut. There is also a dam situated nearly 45kms from Calicut. You can visit that too while taking into the Thusharagiri Waterfall tour. Moreover, this is one of the most attractive places of tourism in Kerala. The beauty of God’s creation is seen here in the region of Thusharagiri Waterfalls. I am 100 percent sure that all the lover of natural beauty will like it very much. Even others will start loving nature.
5) Mananchira Maidan
The main attraction of Mananchira Maidan is the musical fountain in it. The beautiful landscape of lawns is the other attraction of Mananchira Maidan tourism. The tour to Mananchira Maidan takes us to traditional buildings of Kerala. The Mananchira Maidan tour package helps us to relax and find leisure here in Mananchira. The palace tank of King Mana Vikrama is fond of many traditional buildings. The artificial hills, sculptures, fascinating plants, etc. are part of the to Mananchira Maidan tourism of Kerala state.
Unlike all the other tourist places to Mananchira Maidan is available for visiting at all the seasons. The way to Mananchira Maidan tourist place could be easily reached via road from the nearest railway station or airport of Calicut. The Mananchira Maidan tourism will teach you about the architectural style and fashion of traditional Kerala. You will be wondered to see how the ancient architectures made the beautiful gigantic building so strong as to last for centuries. The engineering behind the Mananchira Maidan with out today’s sophistication is praise worthy. You will certainly feel like saluting the people behind the architecture here. It’s natural if you feel like buying it if you have so much of money. But unluckily it is not possible as it will not be sold at any cost. The only thing you can do to enjoy the beauty of it is to come down to Calicut and visit and go back. Though you will feel sad to leave Mananchira Maidan, you will feel like being in a strange place while you are in the premises of Mananchira Maidan.
It is the best place to spend your evenings. The open air theatre, musical fountain, artificial hill, shrubs, sculpture, beautiful sculptures are the main attractions of Mananchira tourism.
6) SM Street
SM Street stands for the Sweet Meat Street of Calicut. In the language of the natives of Calicut town the SM Street is called as ‘Midayi Theruvu’. This is the place or market where we get all types of sweets. The main attractive sweet of SM Street is Halwa. The same SM Street is also popular for its delicious biriyani. SM Street has become a part of tourism Kerala today. SM Street turned into a tourist spot SM Street after it was set on fire last year. A big damage had happened on the day. Many of the people who find their livelihood from the SM Street lost their way of income. It was the red day of SM Street. The selfish people even thought that it was good that the SM Street collapsed in fire. On the other hand they thought that it will help the rise of SM Street with new and sophisticated buildings in a wider area.
It is to be remembered that meat is never sold in SM Street though the expansion of SM Street is Sweet Meat Street. If you dream of having some delicious sweet meat at SM Street it is the biggest foolishness you do in your life. No meat is sold in SM Street. It is rather a street of sweets of Kerala. The name was given to it by foreigners. The man eaters of the west are behind the story. The main sweet dish of Calicut is Halwa and it seems to be a piece of brown red meat. Therefore, the foreigners began the kozhikodan halwa ‘sweet meat’. Thus, later the Kozhikodu midayi teruvu came to be known as SM Street or Sweet Meat Street.
The shopping experience in SM Street tourism is entirely different from the usual shopping system, says many of the men and not women. We know that men don’t like shopping. But any man comes to SM Street as part of tourism will start purchasing varieties of sweets here in SM Street. The SM Street shop keepers and sales men have a special way of selling sweets. It is obvious that we are confused which of the sweets to buy since there are plenty of varieties. So, all the shopkeepers offer us a piece of each sweet to taste them all. So we can choose the best sweet of our taste from the samples given.
The SM Street is rich with many textile and sports shops. There are many hotels and restaurants in SM Street Calicut. There are a few good purdah (outer wear of Muslim women) houses too in Calicut town. SM Street is the heart of the town Calicut and Calicut tourism. If something wrong takes place in SM Street of Calicut it will affect the function of the whole Calicut town. Sweet Meat Street is the busiest street in Calicut and even in Kerala.
There are plenty of shopping centre, textile shops, restaurants, hospitals, hotels and tourist information centre in and around Sweet Meat Street. Shopping in Sweet Meat Street is a memorable event. The Sweet Meat Street has all types of goods ready for us including spices, electronics, handlooms, etc. Thus, Sweet Meat Street tourism of Calicut has a major role to do in the tourism of Kerala. The tourism Sweet Meat Street is an inevitable part of Calicut tourism packages.
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