Visiting Kerala? Here are some festive travel tips for you! “Life becomes a festival when gaiety and culture blend. Onam, a festival uniting the people of Kerala, delivers the message of both.” Onam festival celebrates the many elements of Kerala’s traditions and culture.
Onam festival celebrates the many elements of Kerala’s traditions and culture. Signaling the end of the monsoons, this annual ‘harvest festival’ unites the people of Kerala with a ten-day celebration during ‘Chingam’ (the first month of the Malayalam calendar / August-September as per Gregorian calendar). It’s the best time to visit South India, with the landscape lush green after the rains, the lakes, lagoons, and backwaters flowing beautifully, and plenty of Kerala houseboat tours to choose from.
Onam is also mythologically linked to Malayalee-Hindu folk tales, one which marks the homecoming of legendary ‘asura’ or ‘demon’ King Mahabali from the underworld, while another claim Onam was the day Parashurama – an avatar of Lord Vishnu – founded Kerala state from a sea bed.
A vibrant and colorful festival, Onam is likewise considered the ‘festival of flowers’, and wonderful flower decorations are created inside and outside homes.
