India Travel Guides - Charlie on Travel https://charlieontravel.com/category/asia/india-asia/ UK Travel Blog Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:16:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://charlieontravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cropped-Charlie-on-Travel-Favicon-32x32.png India Travel Guides - Charlie on Travel https://charlieontravel.com/category/asia/india-asia/ 32 32 Where to Stay in Munnar: 6 Tea Country Hotels & Estate Stays https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-munnar/ https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-munnar/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:13:28 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17389 Where to stay in Munnar makes all the difference to how much you enjoy this beautiful tea country stop in Kerala itinerary. Munnar town itself is a scruffy, traffic-filled junction. The reason you’ve come, the rolling tea estates and the cloud forest above them, starts a few kilometres outside of the town. That’s where the […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-munnar/feed/ 0 Windermere Estate Munnar Review: 3 Nights on a Cardamom Estate https://charlieontravel.com/windermere-estate/ https://charlieontravel.com/windermere-estate/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:32:07 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17401 The Windermere Estate in Munnar is one of the most special places we’ve stayed. For us, it made our two-week trip to Kerala magical and showed us what Indian hospitality really means. We stayed for three nights at the Windermere Estate and it’s the place we would recommend to every traveller. This is our review […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/windermere-estate/feed/ 0 Best Things To Do in Munnar: 10 Tea Country Experiences We Loved https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-munnar/ https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-munnar/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:52:56 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17395 The best things to do in Munnar all come back to the rolling tea fields, wildlife and mountain air. At 1,500 metres up in the Western Ghats, the hills roll away in that bright, clipped green for as far as you can see, and after the heat of the coast it feels like a different […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-munnar/feed/ 0 Where to Stay in Varkala: Odayam, South Cliff or North Cliff? https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-varkala/ https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-varkala/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:15:18 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17391 Where you stay in Varkala decides what kind of trip you have. Stay on the North Cliff and you’re in the middle of the restaurants, the shops and, at the weekend, the party zone. Stay in Odayam or on the South Cliff and you’re a short walk from all of it, with rice paddies or […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-varkala/feed/ 1 12 Things To Do in Varkala: Kerala’s Cliffside Beach Town https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-varkala/ https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-varkala/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:29:28 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17385 Varkala is the beach bit of Kerala: a red laterite cliff with a ribbon of cafés and shops along the top, surf breaks below, and a yoga studio on every other rooftop. We spent a week here at the end of our two weeks in Kerala and came to love it. Our first impression of […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-varkala/feed/ 0 Where to Stay in Kumarakom: 10 Backwater Resorts & Homestays (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-kumarakom/ https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-kumarakom/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:48:18 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17332 We chose Kumarakom over Alleppey on purpose. Alleppey is the houseboat capital, with the biggest fleet and the biggest crowds. Kumarakom, across Vembanad Lake, is quieter, more villagey and the reason our backwater days felt peaceful rather than processional. We spent two nights on the Kerala backwaters in November. This guide covers where we stayed, […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-kumarakom/feed/ 0 Should You Take a Kerala Houseboat? Why We Didn’t (And What We Did Instead) https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-houseboat/ https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-houseboat/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:18:41 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=15359 The Kerala houseboat is the image on every brochure for “God’s own country”: a wicker-and-wood kettuvallam drifting past palm trees while you recline on deck with a fresh coconut. It’s the reason many travellers put the backwaters on their itinerary at all. We went to the Kerala backwaters in November and didn’t take a houseboat. […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-houseboat/feed/ 0 Kerala: Everything to Know Before You Go https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-know-before/ https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-know-before/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:00:35 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=14166 Kerala has a reputation for being one of India’s most beautiful and relaxed states – think palm-lined backwaters, quiet beaches, lush hills and some of the best food we’ve eaten. But before we went, we still had a lot of practical questions: when’s the best time to visit, how easy is it to get around, […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-know-before/feed/ 0 Kerala Travel Guide: 2-Week Itinerary, Things to Do & Costs https://charlieontravel.com/kerala/ https://charlieontravel.com/kerala/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:23:24 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=14151 Many travellers told us that India is magical, but also overwhelming and crazy at times. Zooming rickshaws, traffic noise, heavy crowds and packed trains. Not sure we were ready for the intense, heady-side of India, we researched the south to find a “soft India” trip for our first foray into this beautiful and chaotic country. We […]

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