The Singular Experience
Solo Travels Across Kerala!
- Be sure of where you will be staying with rooms booked in comfortable and reliable hotels in advance.
- Your long distance travels can be arranged – but you can do the local travels and explorations on your own.
- Be free to explore without a plan or an itinerary – make it an adventure.
Solo Travels across Kerala
Your reason to travel across Kerala could have a reason that’s very personal. It could be the joy of self-discovery of an unplanned trip that unfolds each day as an adventure or a trip to imbibe the ancient healing science of Ayurveda! You can go on self-discovery journeys to learn Yoga, Hinduism, Kathakali – the ancient ritualistic dance-drama of Kerala. Or learn an instrument like the Chenda or Madhalam. However you travel across Kerala, you need a partner like WanderNow to take care of your stay and travel plans. It could be impulsive or planned – we are on our toes to make things happen for you as you travel all alone.
Traveling alone across Kerala is a very special experience. For one, you can never get lost! Everywhere there are signposts and ‘name-boards’ in English. Almost everyone you encounter (except perhaps the very aged) can be engaged in a rudimentary conversation in broken English. Throughout Kerala, you will get safe and reliable bottled drinking water of major brands as well as bottled soft drinks.
Fresh fruit is available all over – shops will have banana bunches hanging before them – you can just pick a couple, have a treat and pay for it. It costs very little and is both nutritious and filling. Kerala is also a non-vegetarian’s paradise. You can enjoy the best beef curries – something you cannot imagine in most of the other regions of India. With a long cost line and innumerable rivers, tributaries and backwaters, fish is an inevitable item on the dining plate. The seafood experience can traverse into crabs, shellfish… even freshwater frog legs. Food will never be an issue as every street corner will have a ‘bakery’ where you can enjoy foods you are familiar with.
You can catch a bus to any place you wish to travel. Kerala is well connected by roads and offer cheap subsidized bus travel on ‘Government buses’ and also on private bus services. You can get a cab or an auto-rickshaw even in the remotest villages. The larger cities are connected by train and long-distance bus services.
There are many who have traversed Kerala with little much than a small shoulder bag with an extra pair of clothes, a towel, soap, comb and mobile phone and credit/debit card. The state is peppered with ATMs and Bank Branches. The Police here are primed to take care of Tourists and the locals are helpful and mindful of tourists as tourism is considered a major industry which is well promoted by the local government.
Things you can do include exploring the art-circuit in Kerala, learning dance, drama and dance-drama. You can learn to play musical instruments, learn Kalaripayattu (the martial arts of Kerala, supposed to be the mother of all martial arts in the world), learn the rudimentary skills of Ayurveda massage, try your hand at mural painting and learn Carnatic (traditional classical) music.
