SOUTH INDIA TOUR – Escorted by AMY LANDRY & Mantra Wild CEO Reena Tory.
Offering you the most moving and meaningful memories….
SOUTH INDIA TOUR – Escorted by AMY LANDRY & Mantra Wild CEO Reena Tory.
Offering you the most moving and meaningful memories….
SOUTH INDIA TOUR
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER – THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2020
Incredibly intentionally curated, you are invited to experience spirit nourishing Southern India on a 12 night Yatra tour experience. We are visiting some exceptional sites – active temples, places of the arts, the ocean, backwaters, and much more. All presented in collaboration with Mantra Wild.
HIGHLIGHT
Perhaps you yearn to explore Mother India, but don’t have a travel buddy? Or maybe you’re looking for an option that is safe but not sheltered from a very real connection with this magical land? Maybe you want to ensure your dietary needs are met? Or that you can squeeze as much beauty out of a short period of time as possible?
This 12 night adventure will weave the typical and incredible onslaught of the senses with a sweet serenity of the South. Experience a rejuvenation, an awakening, more connection – to others and self, and a peaceful solitude amongst the swarm of the “Mother Land”.
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YOUR TOUR ESCORTS
Amy Landry – Australian Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Mama, Mentor, and student of Odissi dance.
My first trip to India was in 2013, when I travelled around the motherland for 3 months – half the time with my husband and half the time entirely solo. The country captivated my heart, and so it began a love affair with the spirit, sounds, and spices of Incredible India. Since then, I have travelled annually, even 2-3 times a year, for my fix of soul nourishing colour and mayhem. It’s been a dream to take people on a specially crafted spiritual tour – both on and off the beaten track – because, in reality, people have a love or hate relationship with India, and it all comes down to their initial experience. It can be a confronting place – for the mind, body, and senses. It is mystical, intense, and surreal. I wish to gift people with the opportunity to feel safe but not sheltered, and to feel discomfort yet like being at-home all at once. Mother India provides the greatest gift of self exploration and a deep appreciation for art, architecture, Ayurveda, Yoga, food, textiles, ancient culture, spirit, music, colour, craft, and more. Join us!
Afternoon/Evening ARRIVAL to BANGALORE. Stay at La Marvella Hotel Bangalore.
Depart for Hassan via stop at Shravanabelagola Jain temple.
Overnight stay at Hoysala Village Resort, Hassan. Dinner included.
Breakfast Included. Check out of hotel. Visit Art Of Living Ashram, including morning meditation and tour. Lunch at Ashram.
Day trip visiting Lakshmi Devi Temple and the temples of Belur and Halebidu.
Includes breakfast, packed lunch, and dinner.
Drive to Mysore via Sri Ranganatha Temple in Srirangapatnam.
Evening light and sound show at Mysore Palace. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner included.
Overnight: Royal Orchid hotel.
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner included.
Morning sight-seeing tour of Mysore – Chamundi Hill Temple and Bull, Mysore Palace, and Devaraja Marketplace.
Overnight again at Royal Orchid Hotel.
Overnight :Royal Orchid hotel.
Meals included : Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Morning departure from Mysore. Visit Samam Centre for Health & Peace for a Sattvic lunch and coconut palm craft.
Continue on to Kozhikode/Calicut.
Overnight stay at Harivihar Heritage Homestead.
Meal: Breakfast (Mysore), Lunch (Samam), and Dinner (Harivihar).
Early morning visit to CVN Kalari to view ancient martial art of Kalaripayattu training demonstration.
Drive to Kochin via stop at Guruvayoor for lunch.
Free time in late afternoon/evening to explore. *Option to attend special Kathakali performance (at own expense) – highly recommended.
Overnight : Boutique heritage hotel, Forte Kochi.
Meal: Breakfast (Harivihar) and Lunch included.
Free morning at leisure.
Option to enjoy half day morning walking/rickshaw tour of Fort Kochi and Mattancherry. Option to enjoy Pokkali Rice + Backwaters Tour. Both offered via Mantra Wild at own expense.
Afternoon departure for Alleppey. Think, tranquil stretches of emerald backwaters!
Meal: Breakfast (Kochin) and Dinner (Our Land) included.
After breakfast, enjoy a canoe ride along the backwaters, finishing off with lunch at a village home.
Transfer to Varkala, via a visit to Mannarasala Temple on the way – this temple is a pilgrim centre for devotees of Serpent Gods, like Shiva.
Varkala is perched along the edge of a majestic 15 metre high cliffs. Varkala is an important temple town with Papanasham Beach – a holy area for Hindus overlooked by Janardharna Temple. Varkala is famous for it’s stretches of golden sand.
Rest of day at leisure.
Overnight: Deshadan Cliff and Beach Resort.
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch included.
Drive to Kovalam, Kerala. On the way, stop in Trivandrum briefly to visit the Padamnabha Swami Temple.
The temple is built in anintricate fusion of the indigenous Kerala style and the Tamil style(kovil) of architecture associated with the temples located in theneighbouring state of Tamil Nadu, featuring high walls, and a16th-century Gopuram
Rest of day at leisure. A great time for massages, treatments, and relaxation!
Overnight: Amrutham in Standard Room.
Meal: Breakfast (Our Land), Lunch (Amrutham), and Dinner (Amrutham) included.
Enjoy morning Yoga, then depart after early lunch for day excursion to Kanyakumari, via Nagarcoil (visit to Nagaraja temple) and Suchindram (Sree Sthanumalayan temple) to view sunset at Kanyakumari beach/temple.
Dinner at leisure after sunset at own expense.
Overnight: Amrutham.
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch included (Amrutham).
After morning Yoga, enjoy a rejuvenative day at leisure for Ayurvedic treatments, massage, rest, reading, or ocean swims.
Overnight: Amrutham.
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch included (Amrutham).
After morning breakfast, and closing circle, check out and transfer to Trivandrum Airport/Train Station/alternative hotel.
Meal: Breakfast included (Amrutham).
Pricing
Full Price : AUD$3,999
Land Arrangements + Domestic Airfare
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