A visitation to some of India's oldest traditional and cultural icons. For the children of urbania, an almost spiritual experience away from the stress, strife and claustrophobia of modern life.

Kutch, with its colourful people, historic towns and remarkable handicrafts, has much of interest to offer visitors. This tour was called a Mahotsava, or great festival, because of the great variety of scenes that are offered to visitors.

Like so many other regions of Gujarat, Kutch has its own distinctive character. It is, in fact, a peninsula, lying between the Sir river, the Sir Creek and the Great Rann of Kutch on the north-west, and the Gulf of Kutch on the east. The country is somewhat bare and wild, with some cultivated fields near the villages. It has a remarkably heterogenous population, which belongs to 18 different tribes, each with its own language and culture. Yet Kutch, with its colourful people, historic towns, and remarkable handicrafts, has much of interest to offer visitors.

Kutch as a tourist destination has a vast potential, but is unexplored. It has excellent beaches, wild life, palaces, monuments, desert lands, pre-historic sites, museums, handicraft etc. Gujarat Tourism with its continuous efforts to promote Kutch as a destination within the country as well as abroad has been able to generate more tourists' traffic to Kutch since last two years.

The Tourism Corporation of Gujarat, Ltd., (TCGL), organises an unusual tour of Kutch, who wish to visit an area quite different from urban India. This tour is called A mahotsava, or great festival, because of the great variety of sights and scenes that are offered to visitors. The mahotsava consists of a six-day tour of Kutch, in which all requirements of the visitors are taken care of.

Excursions
The Kutch Mahotsava is usually organised during February and March each year. This year the Utsav is dated between 9th to 14th February '99. For other nearby places of interest Click here