Itinerary
Day 1 – Arrival at Cochin – Transfer to Thekkady
Travel to Thekkady from Cochin would be 4 hours. Once at Thekkady, Check inn at the Hotel. Have a restful day in the Evening you could move around the town.
Day 2 – Trek and raft adventure
Wake up for an adventure themed day, a dawn to dusk program. After breakfast, start off a 45 minute trek into the forest to reach the rafting departure point. This would be guided by forest guards and guides. These people are well aware of the forest and are poacher turned protectors of the forest. You would be provided with leg protectors.
Elephants at Periyar
Rafting – The guard would be rowing. There are small seating arrangements in the raft and the raft would take you to interior parts of the reservoir, where animals could be seen – mostly wild elephants and other inhabitants of the Periyar wildlife reserve.
The forests are rich in bird life and arboreal animals like giant squirrel and Nilgiri langur. The rafting is for about three hours and one gets a panoramic view of forest-clad hills reflected on the lake. Animals like elephant, gaur and sambar are sighted keeping close to the edges of the lake.
Day 3 – Spice plantation visit
Wake up to a day of aroma, get ready by 6 in the morning and move ahead for a spice plantation visit. Pepper, cloves, cardamom are the most grown spices in Thekkady. Morning are the best time to visit the plantations. It would be a 2 hour slow walk and you will be back to the resort. By noon proceed to check out and travel to the next destination or move ahead back to Cochin Airport.
Inclusions
- Accommodation in Silver crest hotel – budget hotel in Thekkady with breakfast.
- Spice plantation tour.
- Guided Trekking into forest followed by bamboo rafting in the periyar reservoir.
- Packed lunch.