India's Tropical Malabar Coast Kerala Tour

Day 1: Arriving Cochin Airport

1. Kochi (Cochin)
   Pass by
   On arrival at Kochi airport meet and greet with tour representative later he will introduce your tour driver and you will be transferred to the pre-booked hotel in Kochi. Overnight stay at hotel in Kochi

Day 2: Cochin Sightseeing & Evening enjoy Kathakali Dance Show

1. Mattancherry Palace
   1h · Admission ticket not included
   Today morning after breakfast start sightseeing tour in Cochi and start visit to:
   
   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]
2. Chinese Fishing Nets
   1h
   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.
3. Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica
   1h
   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.
4. Church of Saint Francis
   30m
   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.
5. Great K V Kathakali Center
   1h · Admission ticket included
   Evening visit to the culture centre in Kochi to see Kathakali dance show. 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 return to the hotel, Overnight stay at hotel in Kochi

Day 3: Cochin - Munnar (130km/4Hrs Drive)

1. Mattupetty Dam
   2h · Admission ticket not included
   Today after breakfast drive to Munnar a hill station in Kerala state. Enjoy visiting Mattupetty Dam, Kundale Lake, and the Echo point. on arrival check-in to the hotel. Overnight stay at hotel in Munnar.

Day 4: Munnar Jeep Safari to Tea Plantation visit (Half day)

1. Lockhart Tea Tourism
   1h · Admission ticket included
   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.
   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 lunch near the cliff at local south Indian restaurant 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

Day 5: Munnar - Alleppey (Your backwater trip)

1. Alappuzha
   Pass by
   After breakfast check out from the hotel in Munnar and proceed to Alleppey on arrival check-in Houseboat.
   
   Following by the lunch on board the Houseboat for a unique experience through the narrow canals and channels of the backwaters of Kerala.
   
   The materials that go into the making of houseboat are all local and Eco-friendly; bamboo poles, coconut fiber ropes, bamboo mats carpets, etc.
   
   The Houseboat provides all comforts - Beds, a kitchen, western toilet & 24Hrs Aircon - Traditional lanterns are used as lights.
   
   Spend the day cruising on a 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. The night takes traditional dinner at the houseboat.
   
   Stay overnight in Houseboat in Alleppey.

Day 6: Alleppey - Departure (Kochi Airport)

1. Kochi (Cochin)
   Pass by
   After breakfast in houseboat de-board, the houseboat in Alleppey meet your driver again there and drive to Cochin International airport for your onward destination - Departure transfer tour ends..

Pickup details

Our tour representative will meet you at Kochi airport. He will be holding your reservation name placard there and later he introduces your tour driver and transfer to the hotel.

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• In case of 3 adults book this tour we provide 01 Triple bed Room
• 1-3 pax we provide Swift Airon Car
• 1-5 pax we provide Toyota Innova car
• 2-6 pax we provide Mini Airocon Tempo traveller
• Tea Plantation visit in Munnar subject to weather condition (July-September)
• Backwater trip in Alleppey is subject to weather condition (July-September)
• Alleppey to Kochi airport travel distance 85Km/02 Hours drive so book your flight ticket accordingly
• Minimum 02 adults is required to book
• Prepare your rain coats & Umbrellas travel during July-September in Kerala
• You will find your name Pla-Card on your arrival airport or train station with "ABYSS TOURS"