Everywhere around Kerala in southwest India there are signs emblazoned with the state motto: "God's Own Country" — and certainly no supreme deity could have chosen a better place to call home.
There is much to explore, incredible natural beauty, more temples than anyone would want to visit in a lifetime, incredible culture, glorious beaches and the food is divinely inspired and subtly spiced as befitting one of the world's oldest great spice entrepots.
Keralans are not shy about the virtues of their homeland — and they have good reason to be proud.