All itineraries featured on this site are suggestive and can be customized to suit your specific travel needs. Contact our travel specialists now for a personalized version. The South is ancient India in its purest form. Streets blaze with vivid color and glorious temple cities are alive with rituals of age-old tradition. Stunning temple architecture, green paddy fields, dense forests, golden beaches, spice, tea and coffee plantations, sumptuous palaces, wild life sanctuaries, palm fringed waterways and a rich, artistic life expressed in the lyrical Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi dances and in the intensely dramatic masked dance drama of Kathakali, all combine to offer surprising discoveries in this extraordinary part of India.  After you finish touring South India you move onto Sri Lanka, which is just as delightful. Seductive beaches and tempting water sports, magnificent landscapes featuring lazy lagoons, fertile wetlands, ecologically-wondrous types of forest, imposing mountains, bounteous rivers and waterfalls, an abundance of wildlife - much of it endemic - unique ecosystems, inspiring heritage sites from ancient cities to colonial forts, a vibrant culture including fine arts and crafts and grand festivals, and a people of diverse ethnicity and religious persuasion, charming and hospitable. That's Sri Lanka for you, need we say more.

Day 1: Chennai (Madras)
Day 2-3: Mahabalipuram
Day 4-5: Pondicherry
Day 6-7: Tanjore
Day 8-9: Madurai
Day 10-11: Periyar
Day 12: Houseboat
Day 13-14: Cochin
Day 15: Colombo
Day 16: Hambantota
Day 17: Nuwara Eliya
Day 18: Kandy
Day 19-20: Giritale
Day 21-22: Colombo
Day 23: Colombo - Mumbai - Back Home

SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED:

• Bharatnatyam dance presentation at Chennai,
• Overnight houseboat cruise in backwaters,
• All meals on houseboat,
• Day package with packed lunch at Thekkady that includes bamboo rafting, jeep safari and jungle trek,
• Kathakali dance presentation at Cochin,
• Aarti ceremony at Madurai,
• Spice plantation tour in periyar,
• Harbour cruise at Cochin, and
• Dance show at Kandy.