Meet your driver for an airport transfer with private vehicle, driver and English-speaking assistant.

Discover Cochin’s rich cultural heritage with your private guide as you explore two of the city’s most significant landmarks. Visit the historic Paradesi Synagogue, the oldest in the Commonwealth, admired for its hand-painted Chinese tiles, Belgian chandeliers, and sacred Torah scrolls. Continue to the Dutch Palace, renowned for its beautifully preserved Ramayana murals and distinctive traditional Kerala flooring, while gaining insight into the region’s layered history and artistic legacy. Conclude with a private transfer to your accommodation.

This evening, enjoy a Kathakali dance performance. Dating back to the 17th century, it originated in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The word Kathakali literally means "Story-Play". It is known for its large, elaborate makeup and costumes. Usually performed only by men, the actors rely heavily on hand gestures to convey their story.

Meet your driver for a private transfer from Cochin to Munnar. The transfer takes approximately 4.5 hours.

Munnar Tea Museum stands as an effort to acknowledge the hard labor of the futurists who showed great willpower to transform Munnar into a major tea plantation center in Kerala. The tea museum outlines the development of Munnar's tea estates, which is veritably conveyed through the displays that include the elementary tea roller as well as the modern fully automated tea factory. These machineries depict various stages of tea processing. One can also learn about the production of black tea. A sundial placed on a granite block sitting in the tranquilities of the compound welcomes every guest in the museum. The artifact was crafted by Art Industrial School at Nazareth, Tamil Nadu, in the year 1913. It symbolizes the growth and prosperity, which the Munnar tea estates experienced.

Visit Eravikulam National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site spread over an extensive area of 97 square kilometers along the crest of Western Ghats in Idukki. It is home to the largest population of the endangered Nilgiri Tahr (mountain goat). It is also inhabited by other animal species like Nilgiri Marten, Dusky Striped Squirrel, Small-Clawed Otter, Leopard and Indian Bison. Red Disk Bushbrown and Palni Fourwing are among the many endemic butterflies that can also be spotted in the park. With 120 beautiful species of birds, including Nilgiri Pipit, Black and Orange Flycatcher, Nilgiri Wood Pigeon, Kerala Laughing Thrush and Nilgiri Verditer Flycatcher, this region is a paradise for ornithologists. The shola grasslands of the park are notably rich in Balsams and Orchids. The park is breathtakingly beautiful and is easily comparable to the best mountain ranges found anywhere in the world.

Meet your private driver and settle for your transfer from Munnar to Thekkady. Approximate driving time is 3 hours.

Enjoy time at leisure to explore at your own pace, or relax at your hotel.

Today your guide will pick you up from your accommodation to walk one of the different trails traversing diverse nature habitats. The treks are generally between 4 and 5 kilometers in length. This is an interpretive program offers excellent opportunity to watch birds, butterflies and other wildlife. The trails often pass through evergreen and moist deciduous forests interspersed with marshy grasslands. The walking tour lasts for about 3 hours departs between 7.00 a.m. and 10.30 am and returns between 2.00 p.m. and 3.00 p.m. A maximum of 5 persons can go for trekking at a time along each nature trail, accompanied by a trained tribal guide. The Nature Walk is the right program to feel nature, hear her whispers and smell her flowers.

Take a private tour of a Kerala spice plantation, where you can see how natural pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla, and nutmeg are grown. The spice plantations in Kerala are captivating farms to wander in and the various spices are cultivated in different sections of each plantation. On the spice plantation you can go for nature walks, bird watching treks, taste the various spices and breathe in the fragrant air.

Meet your driver for a private transfer to Alleppey. The drive is approximately 3.5 hours.

Board the Lakes & Lagoons Houseboat from Alleppey at noon where you will be briefed with an introduction with the houseboat crew before your cruise begins. Cruise through Vembanadu Lake and anchor for lunch at approximately 1 pm. After lunch, your cruise resumes at 3 pm and proceed to Muhamma. Reach Muhamma where you will visit a traditional village market for a coir making demonstration. After the visit, proceed to Pathiramanal and anchor for the overnight.

NOTE: cruise itinerary is subject to change.

Enjoy the early morning at leisure to enjoy the beautiful scenery. After breakfast, cruise to Alleppey and reach Pallathuruthy by 9.30 am for check out.

Meet your professional driver for a private transfer to Cochin. The drive takes approximately 1.5 hours.

Meet your driver for an airport transfer with private vehicle, driver and English-speaking assistant.

The Brunton Boatyard possesses a remarkable sense of scale, evident the moment you turn into the tiled forecourt. The lobby is a vault of sunlight and air, framed by arches and overhung with punkahs - enormous, old-fashioned fans of Indo-Portuguese origin. Most rooms have a balcony. The corner suites are large with a separate sitting / dining and a private pantry for the Butler. All bathrooms too enjoy a great view and there is no better way to enjoy a luxurious bath than to lie in the long tub and keep the window shutters open to watch a fascinating scene below. The hotel has its own private jetty, which doubles up as a ‘cafÉ’, overlooking the pool garden and the sea.

One of the best hotels in India, Windermere Estate in Munnar is the perfect accommodation option for business and leisure travelers. Ranking high among the hotels in Munnar in India, this hotel is buttressed with the finest possible amenities for the visitors. Perched atop the mountains 3 km from Munnar, the convenient location of Windermere Estate in Munnar helps the tourists to explore the land of Munnar with ease. The hotel, set on a cardamom plantation 1600 meters above sea level, is 95 km away from Cochin International Airport.

The Land Where Pepper Grows. Spice Village is located in the Periyar wilderness, high in the western ghats of Kerala. For centuries, the area attracted voyagers and adventurers, mercenaries and empire builders, kings and merchant princes. Men and women drawn not only by the lure of spices, but by the romance and wild beauty of the land. The Portuguese and the Jews of Cochin visited as traders, turning the natural bounties of the area into wealth. Pepper and cardamom, cinnamon and ginger, nutmeg, mace and anise the Periyar hills became nature's taste factory in the 14th century, as Cochin became nature's harbour, the port of lading for a spice-hungry world. Today, it's the rainforests, the animals and the vast silences that attract the modern visitor.

Lakes & Lagoons is the first and only ISO 9001 - 2000 certified Houseboat Tour Company in Kerala. With a fleet of more than 21 luxury Houseboats, Lakes & Lagoons offer some of the best backwater cruise journeys. The Houseboats are situated in Alleppey, which can be described as a real natural treasure house providing splendid views of the blue over the lake surrounded by the green of the palms and vegetation, active with the aquatic life and local villages engaging in everyday errands.