Best Places to Visit in Kerala

Alleppey Backwaters

Famous for its houseboat cruises through the serene network of canals and lagoons.

Munnar Tea Gardens

Vast expanse of tea plantations, pristine valleys and mountains. A paradise for nature lovers.

Fort Kochi

A 500-year-old colonial quarter where Chinese fishing nets, Portuguese churches, Dutch palaces and Jewish synagogues share the same salt breeze. The oldest European settlement in India.

Wayanad

A plateau of rainforest, spice plantations and tribal heritage in Kerala's western ghats — 344 sq km of wildlife sanctuary (leopards, elephants, Indian gaur), the Edakkal petroglyphs from 6,000 BCE, and the last refuge of the endangered Nilgiri tahr.

Varkala

The only place on India's south-west coast where dramatic red laterite cliffs plunge straight into the Arabian Sea — a beach town with a 2,000-year-old Vishnu temple, a crescent of yoga retreats along the cliff-top, and mineral-spring beaches below where ashes are immersed in the papanasam (sin-washing) waters.

Kerala’s Backwaters: Sailing Through God’s Own Country

Fort Kochi: Where Four Empires Came for Pepper and Left Their Churches

Goa Beyond the Beaches: Heritage, Feni and Fish Curry Rice

Madurai’s Meenakshi Temple: 33,000 Sculptures and 2,500 Years of Dravidian Devotion

Coorg: Inside Karnataka's Coffee Country and the Last Warrior Clan

Pondicherry: The French Quarter, Auroville and the Slow South