Bangalore to Kerala is one of South India's most rewarding long-weekend routes, and Onam 2026 — with Thiruvonam falling on Wednesday, 26 August and the festive break stretching to 30…
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Most Onam guides describe a banana leaf. This one is about the street.
For ten days each Chingam, a handful of Kerala towns hand their roads over to the festival…
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The Pulikali festival is Kerala's most theatrical Onam tradition, a street parade in Thrissur where hundreds of performers paint their bodies as tigers and hunters and dance through Swaraj Round…
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Kuruva Island — Kuruvadweep in Malayalam — is a 950-acre cluster of uninhabited river-delta islands on the Kabini in north Wayanad, Kerala, reached only by a bamboo-raft ferry run by…
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Banasura Sagar Dam is the largest earthen dam in India and the second largest in Asia — a wall of heaped stone and earth holding back a reservoir so wide…
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There are a handful of treks in South India that people describe long after they've returned home. The Chembra Peak trek in Wayanad is one of them. Part of it…
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The most photogenic monsoon destinations in India are Cherrapunji and Mawlynnong in Meghalaya, Munnar and Wayanad in Kerala, Coorg and Agumbe in Karnataka, and the Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand.…
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Kerala's waterfalls are at their most spectacular during the monsoon, and the best ones aren't on any tourist brochure. The waterfalls in Kerala number in the hundreds, but this guide…
