South-India-Tour


	Explore South India Duration 22 Days


	Places covered: Cochin, Ooty, Mysore, Hassan, Bangalore, Chennai, Mahabalipuram, Pondicherry, Thanjavur, Madurai, Periyar, Kovalam, Kanyakumari, Allepey

South India is a region of great charm, offering varied delights to the traveller, including beautiful cities, colourful temples, a relaxed lifestyle, attractive scenery and some of the best, and hottest, food in India. The major cities of the south are calmer and have a more relaxed atmosphere than those of the north and are certainly no less grand or historically interesting. These princely capitals of the Maharajas, with their magnificent remains of once powerful Hindu kingdoms, contrast dramatically with the cool, mist-shrouded hill stations of the British Raj. The natural scenery is also immensely rewarding: in the west high forest-clad hills slope down through the palm-fringed rice paddies of the coastal belt to a shoreline of shady lagoons, wooded islands and ancient spice ports. In the east strangely shaped granite hills break up fertile plains and the coast has some of the world's longest beaches.

Day 1 Start Cochin.

Day 2 Climb through Nilgiri Hills to Ootacamund (Snooty Ooty!).

Day 3 Relax, walk, ride or try the miniature steam railway.

Day 4 To Mysore, through Mudmalai and Bandipur N.P.

Day 5 Explore palaces and temples of Mysore, centre of the sandalwood trade.

Day 6 To Hassan via Sravanabelagola, sacred city for Jains. Visit Meenakshi Temple; free time.

Day 7 Drive to Bangalore, train to Chennai (Madras).

Day 8 Free to shop or explore Chennai.

Day 9 To beach at Mahabalipuram via temples at Kanchipuram.

Day 10 Explore rock cut caves. To Pondicherry.

Day 11 To Thanjavur through fertile Kaveri Delta.

Day 12 Explore Thanjavur; to Madurai.

Day 13 Visit Meenakshi Temple; free time.

Day 14 Westward to Kerala and Periyar N.P.

Day 15 Explore Periyar, boat trip on lake.

Day 16 To tropical beaches of Kovalam.

Day 17-18 Relax on beaches, or optional visit to Kanyakumari, the southern tip of India.

Day 19 Backwater cruise to Allepey.

Day 20 Drive to Cochin; free to shop or explore.

Day 21 End Cochin.

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Package includes:
All accommodation in double rooms.
Houseboat with double bed cabin and full board.
All transfers and transport as per itinerary in cars with chauffeur.
English speaking local guides at the monuments.
Safari in theNP.
Kathakali dance performance.
Package does not include:
Return flight to India from abroad.
Domestic flights.
Visa.
Travel insurance of any kind.
Entrance fees at the monuments.
Mineral water and alcoholic beverages.
Meals except the once mentioned in ‘included’.
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