reasons to love the monsoon

Reasons To Love The Monsoon

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11. Monsoon Welcomes Festival Season in Kerala
Along with monsoon comes the season of festivites and celebration. Keralas most important festival Onam is celebrated around August to September and it lasts for 10 days. Its a harvest festival where poeple celebrates the ancient homecoming of the king Mahabali who ruled the state for a very long time. During the festival the people of the state seems joyful as they decorate their homes, visit temples, perform poojas, make Pookalam (Flower carpets), buy new clothes, dress up in their traditional attire, and visit relatives.Not only is this, but the famous annual snake boat race performed on Pamba River is one of the prime attraction during Onam celebrations. People from far across the lands visit Kerala to watch this carnival. To be one of them you must consider traveling to Kerala during the monsoon time.
12. Rejuvenate your Body with Ayurvedic Massage
Do you know monsoon is the best time to receive Ayurvedic treatment in Kerala? The cool, moist, and dust free atmosphere during rainy season helps your bodys pores to breathe and thus makes it reactive to get herbal oils and therapy. Kerala is the home of Ayurveda, which is one of the oldest forms of traditional medicine in the world. It offers treatments in the form of yoga, meditation, diet, massage, and the application of oils. Many hotels and resorts across the state offer these treatments at discounted price as a part of Kerala monsoon offers.Take some time out and plan a quick visit to this emerald land and experience the finest ayurvedic therapies to rejuvenate yourself with herbal massages.
13. Dark clouds
Theres something about the brooding nature of grey clouds as they gather on the horizon. They can be a little melancholic, sure, but they also hold the promise of rain, cooler weather and the beginning of a new season which the parched earth awaits.
14. Light drizzles
Who doesnt love the feeling of a gentle shower of rain on the face on a hot day. As the summer draws close, making way for the rains, light drizzles and showers arrive, signalling the oncoming monsoon.
15. Little children playing in the rain
Whether its slum children jumping into a gushing canal or toddlers in a school sloshing in a pool of water, the rains bring joy to children everywhere. And watching them is a special pleasure, too.
16. Eating bhutta
The beginning of the rain has us dreaming of the foods of the season warm, hearty things that will help us brave the monsoon blues.Nothing matches a freshly roasted corn cob or bhutta as we know it for a rainy day snack.When the monsoon begins, the bhutta sellers get busy on beach fronts and in every street corner. Buy one, roasted over coal and rubbed over with salt, chilli and lime juice. Scrumptious!
17. Lightning and thunder
The monsoon also means the biggest sound and light show in the sky.Theres something utterly thrilling about lying in bed and watching the silver flashes across the sky through an open window and waiting for the roll of thunder that follows.
18. Downpours
When it rains it should pour. And you should be tucked away in a warm place, watching the heavens open up and the rains fall in sheets. In places that are in the path of the monsoon, downpours can last for hour or even days, and yet few people complain.When the rains really lash down, those who care about the earth feel good that the soil is being nourished and replenished, that new life will spring forth from the rain watered earth.
19. Rain drenched parks and gardens
For city dwellers, the pleasures of the monsoon are different from those of farmers and villagers. Its a respite from the heat and dust of summer and washes away grime as well.Even the most polluted city takes on a fresh, new look when its trees, home gardens and parks are watered by the big hose in the sky.
20. Rainbows
Even on the darkest day, the clouds can part and a ray of sunshine come piercing through. Then, theres one of natures most beautiful spectacles, a rainbow colouring a grey sky.Whether children or adults, theres no denying the excitement of spotting a rainbow and wondering whether there really is a pot of gold at the end of it.