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Day 01 Kochi - Periyar
On arrival at Kochi International Airport / Railway Station, you are
met and greeted and transferred to Periyar. Check-in at Spice
Village.
Day at Leisure.
 Boat
Safari at Lake Periyar in the evening.
Overnight at
Spice Village.
Day 02 Periyar
Early morning wake-up call to participate in the Bullock cart ride at
0600 hours. Visit vineyards, diverse agriculture crops of mangoes,
tamarind, onion, sunflower, jasmine and a score of other vegetables.
The ride will take your breath away when the guide starts interpreting
how farming has woven delicately with the culture and the life of the
natives.
This is
conducted by a group of people who were engaged in sandalwood smuggling,
later surrendered before the Forest Department. The profit from
the programme goes to rehabilitate this group of people.
Breakfast served
enroute.
Programme ends
at Spice village at 1400 hours with lunch at the resort.
Afternoon at
leisure.
Overnight at Spice Village.
Day 03 Periyar
After breakfast in the Hotel, depart at 0800 hours to participate in the
Border Hiking Programme.
This full day
programme is a conversation oriented hard trek taking up a full day.
The route passes through undulating terrains, attitudinal ranges of 900
meters to 1300 meters which will be covered and the trekkers can have a
glimpse the lofty escarpments bordering the park, watershed and the vast
plains down below.
Gaur, sloth
bear, elephant etc are being often sighed along this route apart from
birds and butterflies.
Trekkers will go
with tour guides and an armed forest guard. Vegetarian
refreshments will be served enroute.
Overnight at Spice village.
Day 04 Periyar
Yet another day
of adventure. This time in the Periyar Lake. Bamboo rafting
at a dawn to dusk range. Hiking and rafting programme through some
of the richest forest tracks of Periyar Tiger Reserve.
Starting at 0800
hours from the boat landing, a mosaic of habitats will be traversed
before the party gets into rafts made of bamboos.
The rafting is
for about 3 hours and one gets a panoramic view of the forest - clad
hills reflect on the lake.
Animals like
elephant, gaurs and samba are sighted keeping closed to the edges of the
lake.
The team
hitchhikes back to the boat landing by about 1700 hours. An armed
guard and a guide will accompany the group.
Overnight at
Spice Village.
Day 05
Periyar - Kochi
After breakfast transfer to Kochi enroute stopover at the Plantation
house for Lunch. This gives an opportunity to see the rubber
plantation and the rubber tapping.
Check-in at
Brunton Boatyard situated at the harbour mouth of the sea.
Afternoon free for sightseeing and cruise through the backwaters of
Kochi and the harbour. Overnight at Brunton Boatyard.
Day 06 Departure
After breakfast, drive back to Kochi Airport / Railway station.
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