6 independent reviews for Rural cycling tours in South India
Reviews for Rural cycling tours in South India
Lynley Marett review 23 Jan 2020
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
Biking such a stunning scenic route e.g. Lockarts GapAccommodation options e.g, Hornbill Camp; Olive Brook2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Work through Kalypso Adventures - their organisation of my trip was superb.3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Not significantly although the Accommodation options selected are presumably owned and operated by Indian Citizens. Local Guide and Driver employed.4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
Excellent. My Guide and Driver were experienced, organised and considered my every need. The Accommodation and Food were consistently of a high standard.Frances Kirkham review 11 Mar 2018
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Try to obtain an itinerary3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Yes4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
Very goodHelen Davies review 3 Mar 2018
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
Seeing Kerala from the bike view - the roadside coconut drinks and the birds.2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Comfy bike shorts!3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Yes4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
ExcellentKeith Lough review 2 Oct 2017
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
We think of the entire tour as being Swallows and Amazons, in India, by bicycle. The sheer diversity and the immediacy of exposure to the people and landscape, and (for us), the exotic birdlife, made this a complete adventure. One can't experience all of that through a car window.2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Throw yourself into the whole thing but don't over-exhaust yourself in the early days of cycling.3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Our tour operator has the interests of Kerala, and its people, at heart and seeing it all by bicycle minimised our environmental impact. We cycled, we looked, we walked and we bought a few things that re grown or made by local people.4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
The best vacation we have ever been on.Manuela Vismara review 13 Jan 2015
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
Cycling through the tea plantations, sleeping and awaking on the houseboat in the backwaters, stand up early in the morning to listen to birds or the elephants trumpeting far in the valley.2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Just relax and enjoy the color of the nature surrounding you while you cycle, listen to the many birds' songs, smell the cardammon or the other fragrances on the way3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Yes4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
GoodHoward Rossman review 7 Mar 2014
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your vacation?
Cycling and trekking through the tea plantations at Munnar.2. What tips would you give other travelers booking this vacation?
Don't bother with the cycling UP to Munnar (difficult, unsafe and unpleasant).3. Did you feel that your vacation benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Contributed to the economy - not sure about reducing environmental impacts. Did celebrate conservation on wildlife.4. Finally, how would you rate your vacation overall?
Enjoyable for sure but would have benefitted from some better planned days.Holiday Reviews
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