Cycle Kerala & Tropical India - Cycling Holiday to India

Essential Information

Trip Profile

Average daily distance: 80km (50 miles)
No.of days cycling: 10 (including 1 half day)
Vehicle Support: 100%
Terrain and route: mostly surfaced roads. One of our more demanding cultural road trips, but with an overall downhill bias. Routes follow mainly quiet backroads with low levels of traffic, but this does increase when approaching towns.

Accommodation

9 nights hotels and 3 nights lodge, all ensuite, 1 night houseboat. Interesting mix with one night at a 4-star hotel and one night at a comfortable safari lodge.

Food

All breakfasts, 8 lunches and 2 dinners are included.
From 1st May 2013: All breakfasts, 10 lunches and 4 dinners are included.
On Premium Departures: All breakfasts, 11 lunches and 5 dinners are included.

Reality Check

One of our more demanding road trips, but with an overall downhill bias. Routes follow mainly quiet backroads with low levels of traffic, but this does increase when approaching towns. We aim to cycle almost the entire route door to door, with only one transfer on Day 6.

Please see the introductory pages of the Cycling Brochure for more important information on classification and grading.

Normal group size and age

Normally 5 to 14, plus leader and driver. Minimum age 16.

Icons explained

The vast majority of Exodus adventures are adult group holidays. Groups are always small in size. We strongly believe that this adherence to small groups means a better experience for all; more time with your guide, less waiting around and a reduced impact on the communities and environments visited.
Each group is generally made up of like-minded travellers - with singles, couples and friends all joining in together. All these trips are suitable for single travellers, but if you prefer to travel with clients booking individually, please see our Solo Departures page.

In order to provide a more accurate cycle holiday grading system, where a cycling trip falls between two grades we use an intermediate or split grade, for example Moderate/Challenging. Clearly, conditions may differ from region-to-region or month-to-month and as such the information given on these pages is designed to act as a guide to your cycling holiday only. In all cases you should refer to the Trip Notes for further details.

Cycling: Our cycling holidays come in all shapes and sizes; from gentle self-guided trips in the Veneto, to tackling the High Atlas in Morocco, or exploring the length of Vietnam.

Culture: Let Exodus show you a different side to many of the world's greatest cultural attractions.

For those clients who wish to travel with a group of other solo/single travellers, on certain trips we have set aside departure dates that are specifically recommended for clients booking individually. Solo departures are aimed at taking away that concern that you may be the only solo traveller when you arrive overseas. Look out for the solo departures (marked with a grey icon's') by checking the notes in the dates and prices table.
However, please note that we inform any couples, or friends travelling together, who enquire about these dates that the trip is recommended for solos, but we do not refuse bookings from non-solo travellers, and we are therefore not able to guarantee that a solo departure will be exclusively made up of solo travellers.

Certain departures of this trip are marked in our brochures and online as Premium Departures labelled with against the specific date. On these departures some elements of the trip have been changed to provide more comfort - this will generally mean we have raised the standard of hotels or switched from camping to comfortable lodges, but it may also include other changes, for example, where a long train journey has been replaced by an internal flight. Specific details about what elements of the trip have been changed can be found in the relevant sections of the Trip Notes.