Destinations

Where we would take you.

All fourteen districts of Kerala, because it is where we are from and where we can tell you which side of the lake to sleep on — then the rest of the country, arranged the way we work in it.

Districts of Kerala

All 14

Houses on the books

Journeys across India

Kerala

Fourteen districts, south to north.

Six hundred kilometres of coast with mountains behind it, and every part of it different from the last. Open one.

The Varkala cliff and the beach below it, from the air

Thiruvananthapuram

Kovalam, Varkala and the capital

Where the state governs itself, and where its cliffs fall into the sea.

3 nights

Sunrise at Munroe Thuruthu, a boatman poling between the islets

Kollam

Ashtamudi, Munroe Thuruthu and Alumkadavu

Eight creeks, a sinking island, and the village where the houseboat was invented.

1–2 nights

Pathanamthitta

Aranmula, Gavi and the forest

Pilgrim country, snake boats, and the road up into the reserve.

A day

Alappuzha

The backwaters and Marari

Vembanad, the canals that feed it, and the beach on the other side of the road.

3 nights

Kottayam

Kumarakom and the eastern shore

The quiet side of the same lake, and the rubber country behind it.

2 nights

Tea slopes and the high range above Munnar

Idukki

Munnar, Thekkady and the high range

Tea to the horizon, cardamom under it, and a lake with a forest around it.

4 nights

A Chinese fishing net on the Kochi waterfront

Ernakulam

Fort Kochi and the Periyar

Four hundred years of trading port, on a peninsula you can walk across.

2 nights

The Athirappilly falls on the Chalakudy river

Thrissur

Athirappilly and the Pooram

The state's loudest festival, and its best-known waterfall.

A day

Paddy and hills at Akathethara, under a monsoon sky

Palakkad

The gap, and the rice country

The one break in the Western Ghats, and the paddy that grows because of it.

1 night

Malappuram

Nilambur and the teak

The oldest teak plantation in the world, and the Malabar kitchen.

A day

A wooded headland where the river meets the sea

Kozhikode

Calicut and Beypore

Where Vasco da Gama landed, and where the dhows are still built.

1–2 nights

Wayanad

The plateau

Up the ghat road into coffee, and the oldest human marks in the state.

2 nights

A Theyyam being dressed in north Malabar

Kannur

Theyyam country

Where men become gods for a night, from December to April.

2–3 nights

Kasaragod

Bekal, Neeleshwar and Valiyaparamba

The last district before Karnataka, and the emptiest coast in the state.

3–4 nights

The rest of India

And everywhere the journeys go.

We work across the country and keep houses in all of it. These are not written at the length Kerala is, and that is honest rather than careless: down there we can tell you which room to ask for.

Goa & the Konkan

13 houses

The coast north of Kerala: Goa where it is still a village, and the Konkan above it where nobody has built anything at all.

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Rajasthan

22 houses

Forts, havelis and the desert, and the small places in them that are not hotels so much as houses that take guests.

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The cities

6 houses

Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta — where a journey lands and where it leaves from, and worth a night more than most people give them.

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Further north, and out to sea

6 houses

Ladakh, Sikkim, the tea estates of Darjeeling and the islands in the Andaman Sea. The long way from Kerala, in every sense.

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Not sure yet

Tell us how long you have.

Two weeks and a first visit is a different route from ten days and a second one, and neither is on this page. Tell us the dates and who is coming, and we will tell you which of these places are worth your time and which are not.

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