Backwaters, hill stations, temple towns and coffee country.
Kerala runs from the Western Ghats down to a palm-fringed coast, with tea gardens in Munnar, wildlife in Thekkady and the backwaters around Alleppey, best seen from a houseboat.
3 packages
Munnar sits high in the Western Ghats among rolling tea estates, misty valleys and shola forests.
2 packages
Alleppey is the gateway to Kerala's backwaters: a maze of canals, lagoons and rice paddies best seen from a kettuvallam houseboat.
3 packages
Thekkady is built around the Periyar Tiger Reserve and its lake, where boat rides at dawn or dusk often show elephants, deer and birds at the water's edge.
1 package
Ooty, the Queen of Hill Stations, sits in the Nilgiri Hills with rose gardens, a lake, eucalyptus forests and the narrow-gauge Nilgiri Mountain Railway.
1 package
Kodaikanal is a star-shaped lake ringed by pine and eucalyptus forests, misty viewpoints and waterfalls in the Palani Hills.
1 package
Coorg (Kodagu) is coffee country: green hills, cardamom and pepper vines, misty mornings and homestays on plantations.
3 packages
Mysore is a city of palaces.
3 packages
Pondicherry keeps a French quarter of mustard-yellow villas, bougainvillea-lined streets and cafes beside the sea.
1 package
Madurai's Meenakshi Amman Temple, with its towering painted gopurams, is the heart of Tamil Nadu's temple country.
3 packages
Kanyakumari is India's southern tip, where the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean meet.
2 packages
Hampi is the ruined capital of the Vijayanagara empire, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of boulders, temples and stone chariots on the Tungabhadra river.
2 packages
Telangana's capital Hyderabad mixes old Nizam-era heritage with a modern tech skyline.
2 packagesAndhra Pradesh combines a long Bay of Bengal coastline with the Eastern Ghats.
2 packages
Karnataka spans the Deccan plateau, the Western Ghats and a green coastline.
4 packages
Chikmagalur is the birthplace of coffee cultivation in India, set among estates, grasslands and forested hills in the Western Ghats.
1 package
Gokarna is a small pilgrim town with a string of quiet beaches on the Karnataka coast, from Om Beach and Kudle to the coves reached on foot.
2 packages
Bengaluru is India's garden city and tech capital, with a pleasant climate, parks such as Lalbagh and Cubbon Park, a lively cafe and craft-beer scene, and heritage that includes Tipu Sultan's summer palace, the Bull Temple and Vidhana Soudha.
4 packages
Tamil Nadu has more working temples than almost anywhere in India, built in the Dravidian style with towering gateways.
2 packagesYercaud is a small hill station in the Shevaroy range, close to Salem, with coffee, orange and pepper estates, a lake and cool air.
1 package
Chennai is Tamil Nadu's capital and a gateway to the south.
1 package
Wayanad is a forested plateau in the Western Ghats, with spice and tea estates, waterfalls, ancient caves and wildlife sanctuaries.
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