Kerala holiday packages

For most people, yes: you drift through the backwaters, lunch and dinner are cooked on board, and the evening on the water is very quiet. If you prefer a hotel, Kumarakom’s lakeside resorts are the other way to see them.

Four to six nights covers Munnar, Thekkady and the backwaters at a calm pace. Add Kovalam or Varkala for beach days at the end.

Yes. Rain comes in bursts, the waterfalls are full and hotels cost less. It is the traditional season for Ayurveda treatments.

No. Our Kerala trips start when we pick you up in Kochi. They end with a drop at Kochi or Trivandrum airport or railway station. We quote your flights or trains from your own city with the trip.

On our God’s Own Country trip you have a private kettuvallam for the night. You get about eight hours of cruising on the backwaters, and all your meals on board are included. Houseboats have furnished bedrooms with toilets, a sitting area and a kitchen where the crew cook.

Yes. Entry tickets are extra on most of our trips. You can book them on the park’s official booking site or at the counter in Munnar. The park closes for the Nilgiri tahr calving season, usually February into March; the dates are set each year. In those weeks we fill the Munnar day with the tea museum, Mattupetty Dam and the tea estates.

Kochi to Munnar is about 131 km, four to five hours up a winding hill road, with waterfall stops. Munnar to Thekkady is about 90 km. Thekkady to Kumarakom is about 122 km, and Kumarakom to Kovalam around 175 km. Every drive is in a private air-conditioned car sized to your group: a sedan, an SUV or a tempo traveller.

Appam with stew or puttu with kadala curry for breakfast. On the coast and backwaters there is fish curry and karimeen pollichathu, pearl spot fish cooked in banana leaf. Try a sadya too: a vegetarian feast served on a banana leaf. Vegetarian food is easy to find everywhere.

Yes, a strict one, and entry is for Hindus only. Men wear a mundu or dhoti and no shirt. Women wear a sari, set-mundu, skirt and blouse, or half-sari. You can rent a dhoti at the entrance and wear it over trousers or a churidar.

God’s Own Country gives you Munnar’s tea hills, Thekkady, a private houseboat night and two nights at Kovalam beach. Hills, Backwaters and Kovalam Beach is the same idea, with a lakeside night at Kumarakom.

Our 7 Kerala trips start at ₹12,999 per person, twin sharing (Munnar Tea Hills, 2 nights), and go up to ₹50,999 for Kerala Grand Tour (8 nights). Flights or trains from your city are quoted on top, for your dates. Every price is for the plan as written; we change it around your dates and quote again.