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Kerala travel guides
25 complete guides covering 327 places in Kerala, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Alappuzha15 placesHouseboat cruises through palm-fringed backwaters, lagoon sunsets and the quiet…
- Athirappilly10 placesKerala's widest waterfall, a river forest of hornbills and elephants, and a…
- Bekal12 placesA keyhole-shaped laterite fort on the Arabian Sea, quiet beaches, northern…
- Guruvayur12 placesA temple town built around one shrine, with elephants, a music festival and a…
- Idukki7 placesTwo hills, one very tall arch dam and a long reservoir: a quiet, hilly corner…
- Kannur13 placesA laterite fort on the sea, long empty beaches, handloom looms and the…
- Kochi23 placesA port city where spice-trading histories linger in the lanes of Fort Kochi…
- Kollam12 placesAn old port on the edge of Ashtamudi Lake: slow boats, island villages, a…
- Kottayam12 placesOld churches, a riverside mosque, rubber hills and the printing presses of…
- Kovalam12 placesThree crescent beaches, a striped lighthouse and a working fishing harbour…
- Kozhikode13 placesA working port city of old spice-trade lanes, wooden mosques, halwa shops and a…
- Kumarakom20 placesLily pads, migratory birds and timber houseboats: a riverside village where…
- Marari7 placesA long, quiet Kerala beach village of coconut palms, fishing hamlets and slow…
- Munnar22 placesRolling tea plantations, misty Western Ghats peaks and cool high-altitude air…
- Nelliampathy8 placesA cool plantation hill range above Nenmara: tea, coffee and orange estates…
- Palakkad13 placesA rice-country city at the foot of the Palakkad Gap: an old fort, a Tamil…
- Ponmudi11 placesA cool, misty ridge in the Western Ghats, reached by 22 hairpin bends through…
- Poovar7 placesA quiet estuary at Kerala's southern edge, where a river, a lake and the sea…
- Sabarimala12 placesA forest-hill pilgrimage to the Ayyappa temple: a climb from the Pamba river, a…
- Thekkady14 placesTiger reserves and spice gardens in a misty mountain town, where boat rides on…
- Thiruvananthapuram18 placesWhere ancient temples meet Arabian Sea beaches: a spiritual gateway to Kerala's…
- Thrissur15 placesA temple-and-festival town built around one round road: Shiva's ghee-covered…
- Vagamon10 placesRolling grass hills, pine plantations and tea slopes above Kerala's plains: a…
- Varkala14 placesRed cliffs rising above soft sand, ancient temples tucked at cliff's edge, and…
- Wayanad15 placesForested hills, silver waterfalls, ancient caves and a pace that slows the…