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Kerala Trekking Tour

Package Name

Kerala Trekking Tour

Tour Code REH 2601
Duration 6 Nights 7 Days
Destinations Thekkady-Munnar-Chinnar-Parambikulam
Transportation AC Medium car with English speaking driver
Meal Plan As per the Itinerary
Accomodation 3 star Hotels & Camp sites

Description :

This package offers trekking through the Kerala evergreen forest in Western Ghats. Trekking route going through the plantations, grass land, high mountains, evergreen forest and local villages. An Experienced wild life guide will be accompanying through out the tour.

DAY 1 - Cochin – Thekkady (5 hrs 30 mints 200 kms)

Pick up from Cochin Transfer to Thekkady, Check in to Hotel, Evening Sight seeing in and around thekkady, over night at Hotel.

DAY 2 - Thekkady

Your naturalist will meet you at your hotel to brief you the program. In the morning, report at the Forest station with your naturalist to check-in to the program. Start trekking through the jungles with your team of trackers from local community. These trackers are the famous poachers-turned-protectors of the jungle who has intimate knowledge of the Periyar Tiger Reserve. Camp overnight in tents and sleeping bags.

DAY 3 - Thekkady - Munnar (120 km 4 hrs)

After breakfast, trek back to Periyar entrance after tiger trail. Transfer to Munnar 4 Hrs. Check in to Hotel. After noon Sightseeing in and around Munnar. Overnight Hotel

DAY 4 - Munnar -Chinnar (60 kms 2 hrs 30 mins)

Check out from Hotel by 7 am transfer to Chinnar 2.5hrs drive. Arrive Chinnar Forest station by 9.30 am and meet your naturalist and the team of eco-guides. After a short briefing, you will be guided for a trek through the dry deciduous thorny scrub forests of Chinnar. Trek starts from Champakkad tribal settlement. A two hour long trek will end at Vasyappara. Camp in a traditional thatched hut on a ledge at the top of this hill – an ideal place for wildlife viewing and star gazing. For lunch and dinner, simple vegetarian food is cooked and served by your hosts at camp. Stay overnight in the hut.

DAY 5 - Chinnar

Walk around your camp early in the morning with your naturalist. After breakfast (cooked and served at camp), trek back to Champakkad. Take a dip in the river Pampar to cool your body. You will be transferred to the Forest station by road and after lunch go for a short trek through the riparian forests along the Chinnar River. These forests are home to one of the most endangered mammals of India, the Grizzled Giant Squirrel. The dry deciduous forest of Chinnar gives you an excellent opportunity to watch wildlife at close quarters. Spend this night in a Machan (a small cabin built on top of a tree) or in a Log Hut. Packed dinner will be served here. Throughout the trip, an experienced naturalist and trained eco-guides from the local indigenous community will assist you. This program could give you a chance to watch Asiatic elephants and gaurs at a close distance. You are part of a joint patrolling team (local indigenous community + Forest and Wildlife Department) that monitors poaching and illegal logging when you choose this program. Trained tribal guides and an armed park guard accompany you during the trek.

DAY 6 - Chinnar -Parambikulam (80 kms 2.5 hrs)

Wake up early in the morning and move around the camp with your naturalist. Look for the pug marks on the river bed nearby and watch birds and animals without disturbing them. Walk back to the Forest station with your guides and naturalist. After breakfast at the canteen run by the local community, bid adieu to Chinnar Transfer to Parambikulam and Check in to Camping program Called ‘Tented Niche’. After lunch go for a Jungle safari with Boating and trekking with your naturalist. Over night at Camp

DAY 7 - Parambikulam -Coimbatore ( 95 km 3 hrs )

After breakfast check out from Camp by 10.30am, and Transfer to Coimbatore

  • All activities and accommodation (twin sharing), with all meals (only in camping programs  and other places only accommodation and breakfast on 3 star hotel)
  • Service of an experienced naturalist from day 1 till day 7.
  • Transportation by A/c medium size car       
  • All taxes 
  •     Food and beverages  other than camping programs  
  •    Any other expense of personal nature
  •    Any other services which is not mentioned in the package includes

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Fr. Theophane road,
Opp. Cappuchin Ashram,
Ponnurunni, Vytila
Kerala 682019
Phone: +91 484 240 1498

+91 944 782 6498
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