Kerala Elephant Festival Tour Package

Upon arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel. In the afternoon, you will first stop at the St. Francis Church, built in 1503 by the Portuguese. Then you’ll visit the Mattancherry Palace or “Dutch Palace” built by the Dutch and later on handed over to the local king. At the harbor, you can see unique Chinese fishing nets, which mark the visit of Chinese people to Cochin. You’ll also visit the Jewish Synagogue, built in 1558. Around the Synagogue, you can buy many antique things. After that, you will return to your hotel. An overnight stay in Cochin. Kerala Elephant Festival Tour Package

In the morning after breakfast, you will drive to Trichur to witness the famous Temple festival of India. Thrissur Pooram is the annual temple festival of the town of Thrissur in Kerala, India. It is one of the most colorful temple festivals of Kerala which attracts large masses of devotees and spectators from all parts of the State and even outside.

Thrissur Pooram is celebrated at the premises of the Vadakkunnathan Temple, situated on a hillock (Thekkinkadu maidan) right in the center of the city, on the Pooram day in the month of Medom ((April-May). Processions of richly caparisoned elephants accompanied by percussion ensembles from various neighboring temples culminate at the Vadakumnathan temple. The most impressive processions are those of Thriuvambadi Bhagavathy from the Thiruvambadi Sri Krishna Temple and the Paramekkavu Bhagavathi from the Paramekkavu temple. The celebrations which last for over 36 hours include parasol displays and firework shows.
This festival was introduced by Sakthan Thampuran, the Maharaja of the erstwhile Cochin State in the late eighteenth century. Perhaps, there is no other festival in Kerala that draws such an unbelievable number of people to a single event. However, Vadakkunnathan is a mere spectator at this festival, lending its premises and grounds for the great event. The Pooram festival is also well known for the magnificent display of fireworks. Fireworks start in the early hours and the dazzling display lasts three to four hours.
The Pooram Festival is celebrated by two rival groups representing the two divisions of Thrissur Paramekkavu and Thiruvambadi vying with each other to make the display of fireworks grander and more colorful. Each group is allowed to display a maximum of fifteen elephants and all efforts are made by each party to secure the best elephants in South India and the most artistic parasols, several kinds of which are raised on the elephants during the display. The festival commences in the early hours of the morning, the celebrations last till the break of dawn, the next day. Kerala Elephant Festival Tour Package

An elephant carries Thidambu during the Thrissur Pooram festival. The procession but also quite enlivening. The marvelous as well as magical effect of the Panchavadyam, a combination of five percussion and wind instruments is to be felt and enjoyed. Among the varieties of festivals celebrated in Kerala, Thrissur Pooram is the most thunderous, spectacular, and dazzling. Three temples are participating in the event. It is an expression of popular fascination for sound and color, and because of the pageantry, it appeals to all people. The images of the deities from all temples of the village are taken on elephants to the main temple. The climax of the festival is the exhibition of thirty elephants and the famous fireworks at 2.30 am local time. In the evening, you will drive back to Kochi. An overnight stay in Cochin.

In the morning after breakfast and check-out from the hotel, you will drive to Alleppey. Upon arrival, you will check into a Houseboat for a day and night cruise in the famous backwaters of Kerala. Lunch will be served at the time of check-in. The backwater cruise in a country boat is the best way to explore the villages and rural life. In Alleppey, you will be taken aboard your floating houseboat, a different boat with a bedroom and en-suite restroom for your comfort. Enjoy unlimited surfing on backwaters, sip a coconut, get disturbed by only the chirping of birds and occasional ripples in water, and savor mouthwatering delicacies prepared in front of you by your Kitchen crew. Spend the night on board the houseboat. An overnight stay in a houseboat.

Today in the morning after breakfast, you will be transferred to the Cochin airport for your onward journey. Kerala Elephant Festival Tour Package