Nature of Kerala is very attractive.

In Kerala had many greeny lands.

crossed in his sweep across central Asia more than 2,000 years before. Soon after, they arrived at the Turkistani kingdom of Bukhara.

When Moorcroft learned that no Turkoman horses were available in Bukhara, he decided to head home before the onset of winter closed the mountain passes. However, in August 1825, en route back to India, Moorcroft broke off from the main party to investigate reports that some of the prized horses might be found at an Afghan village to the south-west. He was never seen alive again by his companions, and is thought to have succumbed to fever or been murdered by bandits. His companions recovered his body and buried him near the Afghan city of Balkh.

Moorcroft made extensive notes of the culture, topography, wildlife, and antiquities of the Himalaya and the central Asian lands to the north. His writings, which were recovered and posthumously published in 1841 as Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindoostan and the Panjab from 1819 to 1825, earned him the reputation as the “father of Himalayan discovery”.

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Travel writing

Travel Writing, literary genre, widely acknowledged and popular for centuries, the subject of which is generally a journey to or through a foreign country. Debate continues over a precise definition of this literary form. It is usually recognized by its adherence to one or more of the following conventions: a non-fictional narrative written in the first person singular (or plural), describing a journey—less often a period of residence—in a foreign country, full of observations of landscapes encountered, including their geography, flora, and fauna, and of the lifestyles, history, and social customs of the human inhabitants.

In addition to providing such empirical information, travel writing invariably contains a strong element of adventure. Often this centres on the exciting incidents thrown up by the itinerary, or the historical dramas associated with locations visited by the narrator. Another strong tradition in contemporary travel writing, given that it is a predominantly Western literary form, is a romantic longing for a vanished Eden, which has been banished by industrialization in the writers' native countries, but is still discernible in the people and landscapes of foreign places.

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