Kerala

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Kerala, Without the Rushed Itinerary Our first plan for Kerala was a sprint: five places in six days, a different bed every night, the lot. A friend from Kochi who’d grown up on the backwaters laughed at the spreadsheet. “You’ll spend the whole trip in a car watching Kerala go past the window,” she said. So we tore it up, picked three bases, gave the houseboat a full night, and slowed down. That’s the trip people remember. ...