South18 to 21 daysfrom £1,850
Spice, Temples & Backwaters
Chennai to Pondicherry to Madurai to Munnar to Alleppey to Kochi
Towering Madurai temple spires, sunrise filter coffee, cardamom scented tea estates, and silent backwater houseboats.
Heritage connection
The South trip will feel different for you than it does for most visitors. Madurai especially, if your family has any connection to the temple culture of Tamil Nadu, being in the Meenakshi Temple at evening puja is not abstract history. It's the thing your grandparents' lives were organised around.
Madurai carries the weight here. The Meenakshi Amman Temple isn’t presented as a sight to see and move past. A full evening is set aside for it, timed for the evening puja, because for Tamil-heritage travellers this is often the temple their grandparents actually knew, not a photograph of it.