Premium South India

Meals

12 breakfasts and 4 dinners are included

Transport

Private vehicle, Ferry

Accomodation

Hotel (9 nights), Houseboat Feature Stay (1 night), Kochi Feature Stay (2 nights)

Included Activities

• Complimentary Arrival Transfer
• Chennai - Welcome dinner
• Mamallapuram - Shore Temples guided tour
• Puducherry - Leader-led French Quarter walking tour
• Puducherry - Sri Aurobindo Ashram
• Puducherry - snack stop at local cafe
• Madurai - Leader-led street food tour
• Madurai - Sri Meenakshi 1000 Pillar
• Madurai - Sri Meenakshi Temple
• Madurai - Gandhi Museum
• Madurai - Leader-led walking tour
• Madurai - Thirumalai Nayakkar Palace
• Madurai - Local family visit and home-cooked Tamil dinner
• Thekkady - Expert-guided spice plantation visit and lunch
• Periyar - Kalaripayattu (Indian Martial Art) performance
• Periyar - Guided nature walk
• Munnar - Tea plantation view point
• Munnar - Tea Museum
• Munnar - Mattupetty Dam
• Munnar - Leader-led town walking tour
• Kochi - Kathakali performance
• Kochi - Jewish Synagogue
• Kochi - Ferry to Mattancherry
• Kochi - Dutch Palace
• Kochi - Keralan cooking class
• Kochi – Fort Kochi Tuk Tuk Tour

• Find out what makes Indian cuisine so special during Exclusive Experiences like an off-the-beaten-path food tour in Madurai, a home-cooked meal with a local family, a fragrant lunch at a spice plantation and an ayurvedic cooking demonstration in Kochi.
• Enjoy a high-energy Exclusive Experience with a live performance of kalarippayattu in Thekkady – believed to be the oldest surviving martial art in India.
• Witness a fusion of influences in the former French colony of Puducherry, and see touches of a Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese and British past in multicultural Kochi.
• Experience a thousand shades of green as you tour a scenic tea plantation in Munnar and track footprints in search of wild elephants in the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Spend a night in a converted houseboat on the Kerala backwaters – your Feature Stays for this adventure – and watch the world go by as you float along the river.
• By travelling on this trip, you’ll directly support our Intrepid Foundation partner, Eden Reforestation Projects. Donations help them provide local employment opportunities and tackle climate change one tree at a time as they restore forests across 10 different countries.