Kerala Trip 6 Nights 7 Days
Gods own country....no doubt....
We as a family kept planning for this trip since 2020 unfortunately due to COVID couldn't execute the plan. Luckily this time we did it. It was amazing experience. I will put each day itinerary to help others.
We spent 6 nights/7 days in Kerala. Just FYI, we travelled 4 people (2 adults+2 children) with two medium size luggage.
Day-1: We reached Kochi airport early morning around 7:30 AM and took veg breakfast at Sarvana Bhavan. That's good and reasonable option for breakfast and snacks.
Post having breakfast, we travelled to Thrissur district to visit Athirapally waterfall. That took almost 2 hrs (apprx 50 kms). Our stay was in Bethaniya Resort which is 900 m from Athirapally waterfall. Resort is just backside of Chalakudy river. Same day we visited Athirapally, Charpa and Vadachal waterfalls. These all are on same route with in 7 kms, its worth visiting. We left resort by 11 AM and covered all these points by 4 PM, rest all time we spent in resort itself as it has back side garden near the river.
Must visit place: Vadachal Waterfall.
Note: We visited in third week of Sep'23 which is almost end of rainy season still there was heavy fall. Obviously in winter and summer flow will get reduced. Consider this point before travelling.
Day-2: We left Athirapally by 9 AM and travelled towards Munnar. Took almost 4.5 hrs, we had tasty lunch at Farmyard restaurant which is close Munnar (30km). Recommend for Chicken tikka for non-veg (delicious). Reached Munnar by 4 PM and checked in to resort (whispering meadows) i.e. 10 kms from main Munnar city, went for Kathakali show by 5 PM (not worth spending 1 hr and 500/person). Took Amritha Ayurveda potli message (100mins) costed 2500/person. This was really pain relief that relived me throughout trip.
Day-3: Post having breakfast, visited
1. Ervikulam National Park: Travelled to Ervikulam national park. We had to purchase three tickets costed 500 (200*2+100) to visit national park through a bus. View throughout the jouney is amazing, all around lush green tea gardens. At the end bus drops us at high point, further need to walk and explore valley. Not much to explore except valley and few animals but no doubt journey is awesome. 1 hr is sufficient to finish this.
2. Rose Gardent: Next we visited Rose Garden, It's beautiful place, can be covered if time permits.
3. Photo Point: This is must visit point, beautiful lush green tea gardens all around.
4. Mattupetty Dam: This dam is on the way between Photo and Echo point. There are boating and few water activities.
5. Echo point: This is must visit point, beautiful and very peaceful.
All above points can be covered in 6-7 hrs. We came back to resort by 5 PM.
Must visit place: Ervikulam National Park, Photo Point, Echo point
Day-4: Left Munnar around 9 AM and travelled to Thekkady.
1. Travelled via gap road, one of the best road seen so far. There are other routes as well to travel Thekkady from Munnar which may take less time but recommend to take this route, 20 kms but worth travelling.
2. Periyar Lake boat ride: We stayed in Periya meadows that is next to Forest bus stand, walkable. Take bus and visit forest that takes us to boating point in 15 minutes. Bus charges 75/head, Boat changes 250/Head. Recommend to take boat ride it's around 1.5 hrs but beautiful.
3. Market: Recommend to visit Thekkady market, I compared thekkady market with Munnar, Kochi and Alleppy. It's cheaper and worth shopping here. Spices, Chocolates, hand made crafts...specially spice gift packets (only 100 INR).
4. Rusker Cafe: Best food had in Kerala @Rusker cafe. It near to elephan ride point next to Periyar Meadows Hotel. THis has authentic kerala style food on banana leaves. Best thing is chicken biryani. Bets part is food for two people is max 350 INR.
Must visit place: All mentioned above
Day-5: Alleppy:
1. Shikara: Recommend take shikara of two hours ride instead of spending whole day in boat. We stayed for a day in a Pagoda Resort but not worth staying in Alleppy, nothing attractive except back water.
Day-6: Kochi:
1. Museum: We visited but don't recommend until you are passionate about history.
2. Marine drive or Broadway market: This can be visited to have shopping, it's kind of chandni chowk of Delhi/crawford market of Mumbai.
3. Sylcon hypermarket: This can be visited as it has nice food court. Non-veg (butter chicken with wheat lacha paratha, biryani and shakes) was nice.
Day-7: Departure from Kochi
1. Hotchips on the way: Banana chips fried under coconut oil is really tasty, can be purchased.
2. Lulu Mall : Hypermarket - If time permits this can be explored to purchase food for traveling.
Whole trip can be finished in six days itself but we planned considering the family (specially children) so every day we used to get back to resort by 5 PM to get relaxed.
Whole trip budget was 45K INR including stay, local transport (flight fare excluded) and food. It was customized by ourselves by doing some research.
We booked cab through pepperkerala. Price may vary in season.
Monsoon: Best time to travel Last Sep till Mid Mar.
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