Your driver meets you at Cochin airport or railway station and you head east into the hills — about
four hours, climbing past the Cheeyappara and Valara waterfalls where the road switches back on
itself and the air begins to cool. By the time you reach Munnar at 1,600 metres the temperature has
dropped roughly ten degrees and the whole valley smells of eucalyptus and tea. Check in to your
honeymoon room with a tea-garden view; flower bed decoration is arranged before you arrive. The
evening is yours. Overnight in Munnar.

After breakfast the choice is genuinely yours. The full circuit takes in Eravikulam National Park and its
Nilgiri tahr, Mattupetty Dam, Echo Point and the Tea Museum. Or skip the circuit and walk an estate
trail instead — for a honeymoon, most couples prefer the second, and we will tell you which
viewpoints are quiet at which hour. One thing worth knowing: Eravikulam closes for roughly February
and March each year during the tahr calving season, and if you travel then we substitute Top Station
for the valley views. Overnight in Munnar.

A three-hour drive south-east through cardamom country, the road narrowing as the tea gives way to
spice. At Thekkady you are on the edge of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, and the afternoon is for a
guided spice plantation walk — cardamom, pepper, vanilla, nutmeg, most of it growing in the same
few square metres. In the evening, a Kathakali performance or a Kalaripayattu martial arts
demonstration, both about an hour and both worth seeing once. Overnight in Thekkady.

An early start for the first boat of the day on Periyar Lake, around 7am — it is the slot where
elephants and gaur actually come to the water, and it is the reason we put you in Thekkady overnight
rather than passing through. Back for breakfast, then a four-hour drive west and down to Alleppey.
You board a private one-bedroom houseboat around midday — your own crew and chef, not a
shared boat — and cruise Vembanad Lake and the narrower village canals through the afternoon.
The boat moors near a village by about 5:30pm and dinner is served on deck by candlelight.
Overnight on the houseboat.

Breakfast on board, then disembark around 9am and drive four hours south along the coast to
Kovalam. Check in to your beachfront hotel and take the afternoon slowly. Kovalam is really three
beaches in a row — Lighthouse, Hawa and Samudra — and the walk between them at sunset, with
the lighthouse coming on above you, is the reason most couples remember this stop. Swim between
the flags where lifeguards are posted. Overnight in Kovalam.

Nothing scheduled before lunch. In the afternoon, a short drive into Trivandrum for the
Padmanabhaswamy Temple and the Napier Museum, and the covered markets if you want to bring
something home. One practical note on the temple: the dress code is strictly enforced — men must
wear a dhoti with no shirt, and women a saree or long skirt with a blouse. Dhotis can be hired at the
entrance, and your driver will point you to the counter. Back to Kovalam for a beachside dinner.
Overnight in Kovalam.

A slow breakfast, then the transfer to Trivandrum airport — only forty minutes from Kovalam, which is
why this route ends here rather than driving five hours back to Cochin on your last morning. If you
have a late flight, we can arrange a day-use room or a final couple of hours on the beach.