You’re in for many new experiences in Southern India. Exotic and impossibly carved temples, the deep greens of coconut groves and rice paddies, elephant rides and swims in the warm ocean and infinity pools are just a few of the treats waiting for you.

We travel from Chennai to Pondicherry along the Coromandel coast and on to Tanjore and dinner at the Palace with the opportunity to meet a real Prince. We travel up the Western Ghats through tea and rubber plantations and pause at Periyar National Park to take a boat across the lake and see wild elephants, birdlife and monkeys. We might choose to have a late afternoon ayurvedic massage on a whim. We’ll stroll through spice gardens where coriander, cloves, cardamom and coffee scent the air.Then down to the Malabar coast. Here, frangipani blooms, fishing nets come from China, and rice boats guide us through a labyrinth of backwater lagoons for a day and a night.

Then it is on to the Kathakali dancers and stunning setting of Cochin.

We make an effort to find the most interesting and unique hotel at the end of each day.

• 20 nights hotel accommodation (India) on twin sharing basis including breakfast, dinners and taxes.
• all transfers and ground transportation by an air conditioned deluxe mini van.
• air travel on 2 sectors (Cochin/Delhi)
• boatrides in Periyar and Kumarakom * overnight in Rice Boat from Alleppey
• entrance fees to various monuments *English speaking guide * staff gratuity

Air price $2,125CAD from GILL TRAVEL includes:

• return Air Canada Toronto / Delhi plus connecting service Delhi / Chennai.
• all taxes. Price subject fuel surcharge
• ticket to be booked directly from Gill International Travel, Hamilton 905 525 6161 or 1 866 525 6161 Dolly or Simi

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Splendours of South India
Itinerary
Leader: Judy Moore



Day 1		depart Toronto				Friday Jan 21, 2005

Day 2		arrive New Delhi   Uppal’s Orchard hotel*	Jan 22

Day 3		fly to Chennai      Severa Hotel  		Sun Jan 23

Day 4		depart for Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram	Jan 24
		Ideal Beach Resort

Day 5		depart for Pondicherry  Neemrana D’Orient  Hotel*Jan 25

Day 6		in Pondicherry					Jan 26

Day 7		depart for Tanjore  Dinner at the Palace	Jan 27
		Ideal River Resort

Day 8		in Tanjore and Trichy				Jan 28

Day 9		to Madurai – Aarti				Jan 29
		Madhura Park hotel

Day 10	in Madurai						Sun Jan 30

Day 11	to Periyar						Jan 31
		Taj Garden Retreat hotel			

Day 12	in Periyar - wild life viewing				Feb 1
			
Day 13	to Munnar – old British Hill station			Feb 2
		Sienna Village hotel

Day 14	to Kumarakom    Taj Garden Retreat			Feb 3

Day 15	to Alleppey and Rice Boat				Feb 4

Day 16	to Trivandrum	Poovar Island Hotel			Feb 5

Day 17	in Trivandrum						Sun Feb 6

Day 18	to Cochin   Kathakali Dancers				Feb 7
		Fort Heritage Hotel

Day 19	in Cochin						Feb 8

Day 20	fly to New Delhi	Imperial Hotel*			Feb 9

Day 21	in New Delhi             Imperial Hotel*		Feb 10

Day 22	In New Delhi						Feb 11

Day 23	fly to Toronto      AC16  0025 departure	Sat Feb 12
		Arrive Toronto same day


* hotel space to be confirmed