Tamil Nadu tailor made holiday, India
Valid from 1 Oct 2026 - 30 Sept 2027.
During peak season (approx Dec to Feb) the price will be higher.
Description of Tamil Nadu tailor made holiday, India
This Tamil Nadu tailor made holiday allows you to really get under the skin of the local culture. It also explores the variety of beautiful natural landscapes that make up this southern India state from temple towns to the glorious coastline near Pondicherry.
A suggested 18-day itinerary is for those looking for thorough cultural immersion in Tamil Nadu. It includes your own personal chauffeur and air-conditioned car, a train trip, as well as local assistance for the duration of the trip to ensure that your tour runs wonderfully smoothly from start to finish.
As you make your way around Tamil Nadu you’ll stay in a succession of heritage properties and guesthouses set within truly beautiful surroundings from tropical gardens, beaches and peaceful riversides. Each of them aims to employ significant numbers of staff from local communities, and also takes their environmental policies very seriously. You’ll dine on sumptuous local cuisine, sometimes with ingredients picked from your accommodation’s own organic garden, kept flourishing through innovative water harvesting techniques.
Visits to historic towns filled with temples, lake-facing retreats and off the beaten track locations allow you to get to know the real Tamil Nadu and its laidback loveliness, away from more touristy areas. What you do with your time is entirely up to you, however our partner will be ready with excellent suggestions based on your interests.
This is a tailor made Tamil Nadu holiday, so you have plenty of flexibility in your itinerary, your accommodation, and your dates of travel. We’d recommend the best time to tour Tamil Nadu as from late November through to March or April. Temperatures are comfortable and the landscapes won't be as dry and arid as they can get at other points throughout the year. It's the tropics though, so do expect it to be hot.
Enjoy a sedate and memorable odyssey around of one of India’s lesser-known states
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Valid from 1 Oct 2026 - 30 Sept 2027.
During peak season (approx Dec to Feb) the price will be higher.
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3 Reviews of Tamil Nadu tailor made holiday, India
Reviewed on 28 Mar 2025 by Nicholas Till
We enjoyed the holiday very much, the variety of places to visit and stay, the convenience of having a driver, etc. Stay at Cardamon House. Beautiful setting, simple but sufficient facilities, and everything clearly considered for sustainability. Staff treated as family. Read full reviewReviewed on 02 Mar 2023 by Stephen Logsdail
Very pleased, would recommend the tour operator strongly. Read full reviewReviewed on 04 Mar 2019 by Brian and Gillian Callaway
Most memorable: Our wonderful driver Shibu, nothing was too much trouble for him, he was polite, always on time and spoke excellent English. He was very good with my husband who has limited mobility and helped him up steps etc. Read full reviewResponsible Travel
Planet
By supporting locally owned hotels and homestays we are helping to provide employment for local communities. All of the accommodation owners on this tour are extremely proud of their strong policies regarding the environment and ecotourism.Cardamom House is also has a great location for birding thanks to a large lake in the area. The house has 7 guest bedrooms and is situated outside a small village near the town of Dindigul. It is owned by a retired British GP and is an ideal stop for people who are interested in staying off the beaten track or birds.
Heritage Hotel – this Indian owned hotel was originally the British Madurai Club with the Club House designed by the world renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. It has a good position slightly away from the busy centre of town and is surrounded by 17 acres of grounds, which still contain the oldest banyan tree know in Tamil Nadu.
Visalam and Isai Karai are part of CGH Earth which is a group of hotels that has won many awards for their environmental policies. The family that own and manage the group are fully committed to responsible tourism and their hotels have a wide range of environmentally friendly features including – water harvesting, organic gardens for vegetables, worm farms, bio-gas converters etc. Visalam was built in the 1930s and was the ancestral home of a local trading family. The conversion to a hotel was carried out extremely sympathetically and the building retains its original features.
All of our customers are supplied with detailed information about their holiday. We supply general advice relevant to all customers as well as more specific facts about your particular tour. These documents offer our customers lots of advice and guidance including how to obtain an Indian Visa, which immunisations are recommended, how much to tip people, how to dress appropriately and how to behave in National Parks.
People
The ground handling of this tour is provided by our local agent and we supply him with more than 90% of his turnover. All of the drivers and staff are local people. Thus we have fifteen local families that are directly financially reliant upon us. Our drivers have a contract and are paid a monthly wage. This is very unusual in South India where most drivers are normally employed on a commission-only basis (not easy for such seasonal work).All of the guides we use are local. Tailor-made holidays cater for couples or small groups and this means that our customers have the opportunity to interact with the locals.
Gratitude in Pondicherry, used a local company and workforce, to restore the house using every traditional method. New portions had to be added and it was a natural choice to make it exactly with the same techniques. The work used local tradesman, and over three years of planning, modifying, re-designing is now more beautiful than it has ever been.
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