10 Days -Beautiful Kerala with Kanyakumari
Kerala, a state on India’s tropical Malabar Coast, has nearly 600km of Arabian Sea shoreline. It’s known for its palm-lined beaches and backwaters, a network of canals. Inland are the Western Ghats.
Kanyakumari is a coastal town in the state of Tamil Nadu on India’s southern tip. Jutting into the Laccadive Sea, the town was known as Cape Comorin during British rule and is popular for watching sunrise and sunset over the ocean.
| PLACES COVERED |
Cochin-Munnar-Thekkady (Periyar)-Alleppey-Kovalam-Kanyakumari-Kovalam-Cochin |
| DURATION OF TRIP |
09 NIGHTS/10 DAYS |
| MINIMUM REQUIRED |
2 PAX |
| ACCOMMODATION |
BUDGET ACCOMMODATION |
| DEPARTURE/RETURN LOCATION |
PICKUP COCHIN /DROP COCHIN |
| RETURN TIME |
Approximately 6:30 PM/Depends on onward Journey |
| WEAR |
Comfortable athletic clothing, sunscreen. |
| BASIC INCLUSION |
| 09Night Accommodation as per tour plan |
| Arrival Departure By private Transport Aircon |
| Jeep Safari In Munnar |
| All sightseeing & Taxes |
| Bed and Breakfast |
| Overnight Houseboat premium Class 24 HrsAircon With meals |
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| BASIC EXCLUSION |
| Entrance Tickets |
| Lunch & dinner |
| Personal Expenses |
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General Inclusion:
For India:-
- A safe and comfortable air-conditioned Private car with driver, all inclusive. (Fuel for Bus, road and state taxes, toll fees, parking fees, and driver’s food and lodging).
- The car will be with you from your arrival to departure with as many stops to sight see as you want.
- A Driver with excellent skills and record, a good knowledge of the area you are visiting and sufficient English to communicate.
- Transfers and land transportation according to itinerary.
- Accommodation Double or Twin rooms with Bed and Breakfast
- Arrival Departure By private Transport Aircon
- Boat Ride in Periyar
- Jeep Safari in Munnar
- Kathakali dance show tickets at AC Theater in Kochi
- Overnight Houseboat premium Class 24 Hrs Aircon With all meals.
General Exclusion:
- Tips, laundry, telephone bills, luggage handling and Beverages.
- Meals unless specified
- Any monument entrance tickets
- Personal Expenses
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Kerala, a state on India’s tropical Malabar Coast, has nearly 600km of Arabian Sea shoreline. It’s known for its palm-lined beaches and backwaters, a network of canals. Inland are the Western Ghats.
Kanyakumari is a coastal town in the state of Tamil Nadu on India’s southern tip. Jutting into the Laccadive Sea, the town was known as Cape Comorin during British rule and is popular for watching sunrise and sunset over the ocean.
Today arrive in Kochi Airport by any morning flight and you will be meeting with our tour manager at airport later you proceed to Munnar. Enroute stop at Valera and Cheeyappara Waterfalls. Reaching Munnar, check into the hotel and relax. Overnight at Munnar.
After breakfast start sightseeing tour of Munnar by Jeep safari drive through the KananDevan Hills tea plantations, scenic beauty valleys, Lock heart gap, spice plantations etc. After around 25 kms of jeep ride through the normal road we will reach the jeep able, jumpy, bumpy, rugged road to the World’s highest organic tea growing estate. Once we reach the top we will be on the ridge of Kerala, Tamil Nadu border. From there drive or walk little further to one of the oldest orthodox tea factory in this region.
After visiting the Factory we will have fresh tea picked, processed and made on the spot. Soon after we will start walking to a small ground to have our picnic lunch near the cliff with wonderful view around, then will proceed to Munnar in the jeep itself. Ride will be through the tea plantations jeepable rugged road and we can have a close look to the spectacular country side and the rural Tamil people, working in the tea plantations.
- Later drive back to Hotel stay overnight at Hotel in Munnar.
Today after breakfast check out your hotel and drive towards Thekkady, the Wildlife destination of Kerala. It’s also known as the spice bag of the state. Sightseeing destinations in Thekkady includes Periyar wild life sanctuary (20 km from Thekkady) where you can see wild elephant, boar, deer, the great Indian tiger and more, Mullaperiyar dam and spice plantations tour where one can shop exotic spices.
In the evening you have an amazing boat ride in Periyar Lake which flows through the Periyar tiger reserve. You will have chance to watch the wild animals like elephant, Bison, Sambar, Deer etc are roaming the both shore.
- Overnight stay in hotel in Periyar or Thekkady.
After Morning breakfast 08:00 am proceed to Alleppey on arrival check in Houseboat. “Admire the beautiful scenery of paddy fields and coconut palm as you cruise along the backwaters of Alappuzha (Alleppey). Alappuzha, also known as the “Venice of the East”, is an important tourist destination in India and the backwaters of Alappuzha are the most popular attraction in Kerala. A houseboat cruise on these backwaters will be a very delightful and unique experience for you!
- Guests can check in at 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, you have welcome drink and start cruise after a short briefing introduction, relax and enjoy the canals, rivers and backwater, at 13:00 hrs houseboat will stop for lunch, with lavish menu of traditional Kerala cuisine. (if your require any special meals like main food in north Indian or food without spice etc it has to be informed in advance).
- 14:00 hrs it will continue its cruise covering beautiful rivers and canals with palm trees and small houses near to it , villages paddy fields, churches, etc, you can also see their fresh prawns or crab selling from local fishermen.
- 17:30 hrs The houseboat will anchor (till next day morning 08: 00) most of the time we will stop near the land because, you can also get a chance to go out and walk along the riverside or villages and come back, Evening Enjoy your Dinner and leave all world behind you and have a good sleep in your floating paradise.
- Bed tea / Coffee will be provided, enjoy the sunrise next day and breakfast ready next day morning at 07:00 am. Take breath pollution free air. At 08:30 hrs Breakfast which includes bread, butter, jam or Iddily /Dosa etc.
- 09:00 Am Checkout time is fixed next day from the boat.
The Houseboat provides all comforts – Beds, a kitchen, western toilets and an upper deck. Traditional lanterns are used as lights. Spend the day cruising on boat. Through remote tribal villages along the tranquil backwaters of Kerala is a superb experience. Sensational in its own silent way, the cruise takes you along Snake boat docks, friendly cheering villagers, coir (Jute) making communities, toddy (local spirit) shops, fishing nets pitched for the day’s catch, bounded paddy fields and manual canoes of different sizes criss-crossing each other. The experience enables you to reach beautiful untouched areas.
- Stay overnight at in Houseboat in Alleppey.
Disembark from houseboat in Alleppey at 9AM and drive to Kovalam. Kovalam is a small coastal town in the southern Indian state of Kerala, south of Thiruvananthapuram. At the southern end of Lighthouse Beach is a striped lighthouse with a viewing platform. Palm-backed beaches also include Hawa Beach and Samudra Beach. Check in at the beach resort and relax. You have option for Ayurveda massage. Overnight at Kovalam.
Today after breakfast, Drive to Kanyakumari which is the southern tip of India. Upon arrival check-in to the hotel. Sightseeing includes Kanyakumari beach which is the sangam of Indian ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian sea.
- Visit Vivekananda rock, Watch sunset and stay at hotel in Kanyakumari.
Today after breakfast visit same place to Watch sunrise and later drive to Kovalam
Sightseeing includes light house beach, Howah Beach, Ashoka beach. Kovalam beaches has lovely coconut palms fringe the golden sand.
Overnight stay at Kovalam.
Today after breakfast the day free for relaxation at the beaches in Kovalam.
Overnight stay in Kovalam.
Today after breakfast proceed to Kochi. Upon arrival in Kochi check-in to the hotel later in the evening visit:
- Kathakali Dance show Centre in AC Theater: (Timings: 17:30 pm – 19:30 pm)
Elements of the art of Kathakali are found in the ancient ritual plays of Hindu temples and various dance forms that are believed to have been gradually developed in Kerala from as early as the 2nd Century until the end of the 16th Century. Many of its characteristics are very much older than its literature, as they are a continuation of older traditions, but these did not crystallize until the 17th Century when the Rajah of Kottarakkara, a small principality in central Travancore, wrote plays based on the Hindu epic “Ramayana” in sanskritized Malayam, which could be understood by ordinary people.
- Later drive back for Stay overnight at Hotel in Cochin..
After breakfast start a sightseeing tour of Cochin Here you can see the:
- Mattancherry Palace & Jewish Synagogue: The Mattancherry Palace is a Portuguese palace popularly known as the Dutch Palace, in Mattancherry, Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala which features Kerala murals depicting portraits and exhibits of the Rajas of Kochi. The Palace was built and gifted by the Portuguese as a present to the king of Cochin around 1555. The Dutch carried out some extensions and renovations in the palace in 1663, and thereafter it was popularly called Dutch Palace. It is also called Paradesi synagogue is a word used in several Indian languages, and the literal meaning of the term is “foreigners”, applied to the synagogue because it was built by Sephardic or Spanish-speaking Jews, some of them from families exiled in Aleppo, Safed and other West Asian localities. It is also referred to as the Cochin Jewish Synagogue or the Mattancherry Synagogue.
Above monument Timings: Dutch Palace/Mattancherry: Timings 10:00am to 5pm, Closed on Fridays and National holidays / Jewish Synagogue: 10 am to 5pm, Break Time – 12pm to 3pm, Closed on Friday & Saturday & Jewish Holidays
- Chinese Fishing Net: In India, Chinese fishing nets (Cheena vala) are fishing nets that are fixed land installations for fishing. While commonly known as “Chinese fishing nets” in India, the more formal name for such nets is “shore operated lift nets”. Huge mechanical contrivances hold out horizontal nets of 20 m or more across. Each structure is at least 10 m high and comprises a cantilever with an outstretched net suspended over the sea and large stones suspended from ropes as counterweights at the other end.
- Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica, Kochi: The Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica at Fort Kochi is one of the eight Basilicas in Kerala. Counted as one of the heritage edifices of Kerala, this church is one of the finest and most impressive churches in India and visited by tourists the whole year round. It is a place of devotion as well as a center of historic significance, endowed with architectural and artistic grandeur and colours of the gothic style.
- St. Francis Church, Kochi: St. Francis CSI Church, in Fort Kochi (a.k.a. Fort Cochin), originally built in 1503, is the oldest European church in India. and has great historical significance as a mute witness to the European colonial struggle in the subcontinent. The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama died in Kochi in 1524 when he was on his third visit to India. His body was originally buried in this church, but after fourteen years his remains were removed to Lisbon.
- You can find some time for Shopping at Cochin, Later transfer to the airport to onward destination.
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