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South India

Choose a route, then shape the stays, transport and pace around your group.

Trips across South India

South India is backwaters, coffee hills, temple towns and a long coastline. From North India it is usually a flight into Kochi, Bengaluru, Goa or Chennai, then a road circuit. Popular routes: Munnar, Alleppey and Kochi in Kerala; Coorg, Mysore and Hampi in Karnataka; Ooty; the beaches of Goa, Gokarna and Pondicherry; and Kanyakumari at the southern tip of the country.

Kerala

Backwaters, tea hills and a slower kind of trip

Goa

Beaches by day, everything else by night

Karnataka

Coorg

Coffee estates, misty hills and the easiest green escape from Bengaluru

Tamil Nadu

Ooty & Coonoor

Nilgiri tea slopes and a mountain railway that takes its time

Karnataka

Mysore

A palace that lights up on Sunday nights, and the gateway to the south

Karnataka

Hampi

A ruined empire spread across a boulder landscape

Karnataka

Gokarna

Goa's quieter cousin, with cliff walks between the beaches

Puducherry

Pondicherry

French quarter mornings, and the easiest coastal weekend from Chennai

Tamil Nadu

Kanyakumari & Rameswaram

Where three seas meet, and a temple corridor worth the journey

Andaman & Nicobar

Andaman Islands

The clearest water in India, and the best beach most people never reach

Kerala

Munnar

Tea hills at about 1,500 m, four hours up from Kochi

Kerala

Alleppey (Alappuzha)

Houseboats, canals and rice fields below sea level

Andhra Pradesh

Tirupati & Tirumala

The Venkateswara temple on the Seshachalam hills, planned around the darshan queue

Plan a South India trip

South India from Delhi NCR

Route, days needed and a day by day plan from Delhi NCR.

South India from Mumbai

Route, days needed and a day by day plan from Mumbai.

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South India from Bengaluru

Route, days needed and a day by day plan from Bengaluru.

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South India trip questions

5 to 6 days covers Munnar, Alleppey with a houseboat night, and Kochi. Add 2 days for Thekkady or Varkala.

October to March for most of the south. The monsoon reaches the Kerala coast around June, when Coorg and Munnar are green but rainy and beach towns go quiet.

Kochi for Kerala, Bengaluru for Coorg and Mysuru, Coimbatore for Ooty, Goa for Gokarna, and Chennai for Pondicherry. From Mumbai, Goa and Gokarna also work by overnight train.