THE ONE THAT JOURNEYS THROUGH KERALAN BACKWATERS AND BEYOND, DISCOVERING ELEPHANTS, TEMPLES, AND A DIFFERENT SIDE OF INDIA
Take a sojourn to where the spices grow and the palm trees slope, under the beam of India’s southern sun. We’ll prance the streets of the delightfully French Pondicherry, and drift in a bamboo houseboat through the backwaters of Kerala. Temples, tea plantations and a tiger reserve – the phrase “Incredible India” must have been coined in the south.
Travel is best shared. This is a small group adventure of 12-30 people, aged between 18-35 exclusively, giving you the perfect balance of new friends to travel with and access to even more authentic experiences.
WHAT YOU GET
10 nights accommodation
9 nights in Hotel, 1 night in Special Stay - Houseboat
10-nights: Plush hotels with twin share rooms will see our tired selves well-rested. One special night will be spent adrift in the arms of a traditional Keralan houseboat, the quintessential South Indian experience.
16included Meals
10 Breakfast, 4 Lunch, 2 Dinner
Prepare your taste buds for a fireworks display of spices, fresh seafood, and tropical fruits, dished up in 15 included meals - 10 breakfasts, 3 lunches and 2 dinners - and an array of self made food discoveries. We’ll eat off palm leaves, lap up our curries with parotta bread, and sip coconuts moments after they’ve fallen off the tree.
Team
Expert Trip Manager and Local Guides
A highly trained Trip Manager who brings your adventure to life, along with Local Guides who make tourist traps a thing of the past. This is your team. Smart, friendly, fun, and integral to everything we do.
Transport
All transport included during the trip
Getting around Asia is half the fun, and all transport is included for the duration of your trip. Private, air conditioned mini coaches allow you soak up all that scenery in style, but it's our unique, local forms of transport that make the journey all part of the adventure.
Your group
Travel with other 18-35 year olds from around the world
Our trips are exclusively 18-35. This means you'll be travelling with people just like you, from all over the world. Small group sizes ensure you'll never miss out on the action, and laughter and friendships are always guaranteed.
Experiences
15 included, 4 optional that you can add
This trip is packed full of inclusions that will set your heart into a flutter. We’ll ride to temples in a rickshaw, roam a spice plantation and tea factory, and take a wildlife boat safari in the territory of elephants and tigers. Excited much?
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Nights spent per location
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1 night
Chennai
2
2 nights
Pondicherry
1
1 night
Kumbakonam
1
1 night
Madurai
1
1 night
Periyar
1
1 night
Kumarakom
1
1 night
Kerala Backwaters
2
2 nights
Cochin
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Jack Lown
Traveled Jan 2019
Southern Spice was Very Nice!
Great Product! Great Value for money.
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Michael Magyar
Traveled Dec 2018
Southern Spice
The diversity of sites visited, and the indepth knowledge our Aaron and Mahdu had.
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Dayna Taliana
Traveled Dec 2018
Awesome trip
More amazing than imaginable
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Anonymous
Traveled Nov 2018
Southern Spice
Indien ist ein tolles Land und Contiki führt einen sicher dadurch, ohne dass man als Reisender Angst haben muss, da der Ruf von Indien ja leider nicht der Beste ist aufgrund der Sicherheit.
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Aurelee Marion
Traveled Nov 2018
Beautiful Southern India
Amazing experience, that I wouldn’t have been able to have without contiki
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Anonymous
Traveled Mar 2018
Awesome Trip
Best trip I've done so far. The Southern Spice tour was good value for money, with a lot of cool experiences. The tour guide and the group were awesome.
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Isabella Knightley
Traveled Feb 2018
My perfect southern spice trip
The people that I met were lovely, friends for life.
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