All Kochi Tours & Excursions in 2026

This was a wonderful trip. It takes about 3-3.5 hours to get to the tea plantation from Kochi. If your hotel isn't listed as a pickup location, contact person listed and check if they'll pick you up, anyways. Because they did this for us. Our driver, Feroz was excellent in every way. Patience, kindness, accommodating and safe. First stop us for breakfast, but it's not a place I would've chosen. It was a vegetarian menu and the bathroom accommodations were suboptimal. Our guide to the tea plantation, Suresh was kind, knowledgeable, patient and accommodated us accordingly. I have drank tea all my life, but never really learned anything about it. Today charged all of that and more. Suresh chose a wonderful location for us to picnic and provided us with snacks and the BEST tea I've ever had! Feroz took us to a spice garden, where we learned so much! I have a whole different appreciation for sources l spices and ayurvedic treatments. I would definitely do this again! Thanks Suresh and Feroz!!!

We loved this food tour - Biju is born and raised in the town and knows everyone. Going on his tour gives you the chance to visit the restaurants like a local - and get treated like a VIP. We started with some fresh drinks (mango and avocado) before taking Biju’s tuk tuk to a nearby vegetarian place. We moved from there to a different restaurant serving different meat dishes and various accompaniments. And ended with a cooling drink at a street side family shop. Traveling as a tourist, you’d never find these places or know how good they were, so getting the personal tour is well worth doing and we’d recommend it to anyone.

This was an exceptional day trip on the Backwaters. Peaceful & serene. Highly recommended. The driver, the punters, the guide, the family & the chefs all made for such a smooth flowing day. Lunch was superb as was the tea & banana cumin fritters for snack. The coconut coir rope making & coconut 🥥 mat was fascinating to watch. A 'must-do' trip. 🕉💫

This tour was awesome, such a peaceful and relaxing way to see the sights. The tour guide picked us up near the cruise terminal and then we drove about an hour to the Kerala backwaters but the drive was interesting with lots to see. Stopped at a villagers house for a cup of tea and snacks and a demonstration about village life. We really enjoyed this slow paced and relaxing tour.

We had an excellent time on this trip! We are graduate students from the US and found this experience lovely and a very good value. We had excellent accommodations and our driver was very knowledgeable, professional, and safe. Munnar is beautiful and offers lots to see and do for thrill-seekers (zip lines, jeep rides) or relaxed sightseeing (tea plantations, vistas). Alleppey and Kochi were were lovely too, had a very relaxing boat trip, visited the beach, and Kochi offered some historic sites and good shopping. A couple pieces of advice - the optional jeep trip is a bit of a scam, its good if you want secret waterfalls but for wildlife just ask your driver to take you directly to the wild elephant sighting location. Also, it takes some time to drive around to each location. Think about what things from the itinerary are most important and prioritize those, we didn't not have time for all the included activities. Otherwise, just relax and enjoy the accommodations!

We are so glad that we booked this tour - as noted by others, Biju was outstanding, engaging, knowledgable and a wonderful ambassador for his hometown of Kochi. Additionally, we booked pretty late and needed modifications reducing the time of the tour by a few hours - he was so responsive and flexible, and honestly, the tour was still so comprensive and yet relaxed, that we feel we saw it all, and learned so much. Our driver Justin was excellent, and contributed to our learning too - expert driver and very kind. Totally recommend this tour of beautiful, multi-cultural Kochi!

Thanks for a great day! Our guide picked us up at our hotel to drive us to the houseboat. During our drive to the houseboat, he shared a lot of knowledge about areas we were passing by and like in Kerala. We had an amazing lunch on the houseboat and enjoyed the peacefulness of the backwaters. We enjoyed our guides company throughout our day. Our day was made so easy by offering hotel pickup and drop off. Highly reo. Thanks for a great day

We went on a 5-day private tour in Kerala, which we booked with Sanguine through the Viator app. They arranged the trip wonderfully. Nimisha was amazing — always available to answer our questions and help whenever we needed. Sumesh was an excellent driver and a knowledgeable guide throughout the trip. The cost was very reasonable, and they arranged beautiful resorts. The houseboat experience was incredible. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Kerala and created unforgettable memories there.