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Kerala travel firms to 'pepper' schemes with 'black is beautiful' tours. The 'Pepper Treats' will be topped off by visits to coffee plantations, spice highlands, ayurvedic centres, historic forts besides cultural and folk art performances. Click here.
Budget vacation
Southern Travels, a Bangalore-based travel agency, offers six types of packages to Kodaikanal, Mysore and Ooty.
Southern Travels, Hotel Rajkamal complex, near Sivananda stores, Kumara Park, east, Bangalore. Phones: 080-2262633, 2267040. New Delhi at 18/2, Arya Samaj road, Karol Bagh. Phones: 011-5722210, 5724085, 5782932. Fax: 011-5751308, 5727402.
Smooth Sky Tours offers a 10 day tour to Bangalore, Mysore and Ooty.
Prices:
For those who wish to do the journey by air, from Bombay, the tour prices for an eight day tour to Bangalore, Mysore and Ooty are:
Going south
Raj Travels offers a nine night and 10 day tour package to Bangalore, Mysore, Ooty and Kodaikanal.
The package is priced at: Rs 31,244 per per couple. The tour price includes transport by non-AC car from Bangalore, accommodation in moderate hotels and sightseeing. A child below 12 will be charged Rs 7,811, without extra bed.
Raj World Tours, Chowpatty View, S V P road, Chowpatty Phones: 022-3645006, 3645005.New Delhi 409, 4th floor, 30/31 Raja House, Nehru Place. Phones: 011-6468008, 64680030.
A fancy holiday
Nirula Travels can organise a five day holiday to Ooty for Rs 39,100 for two. This package includes accommodation at The Savoy, a five star hotel in a garden facing room, a welcome drink, breakfast, lunch or dinner, hald day of sightseeing, transport from Bangalore by car and a car at your disposal throughout the vacation. It does not include airfares to Banaglore.
Nirula Travels, Mohandev Travels, 13 Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi. Phone: 011-3328121.