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Itineraries
2 WEEKS
Classic Kerala
Start your Keralan adventure in the capital,
Thiruvananthapuram
(Trivandrum). Spend a
day visiting the zoological gardens and the nearby museums before making the half-hour
hop to the beach at the well-developed resort of
Kovalam
. Backpackers might prefer to
head further north to
Varkala
, a holy town thanks to its Janardhana Temple and alluring for
its dizzying clifftop guesthouse and restaurant enclave. Chill out here with some yoga or
surfing for a few days before continuing north to
Kollam
(Quilon), where you can take a
canoe tour through the canals and backwaters around Munroe Island. Ditch the bus or train
and take the full-day tourist cruise through the canals to Alappuzha (Alleppey) with an
overnight stop at the
Matha Amrithanandamayi Mission
(
Click here
), the pink ashram of
'The Hugging Mother'. Moving on to
Alleppey
, you're in houseboat central. Scout out for
