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Tour Type: Private Escorted Tours Start: Cochin	Duration: 11 Days End: Trivandrum
Departs: Daily

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NZ$ 3389

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Tour Description

Kerala state in South India is famous for Backwaters and Ayurveda. A great ambience to experience both backwaters and Ayurveda health care. With our wellness trips to India, you are allowed to do a little sightseeing before you arrived at the yoga and wellness retreat. This is the perfect way to relax and find balance in your life, as well as to see some of the famous sights.

Itinerary

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DAY 1

On arrival at the airport, meet your Tour Executive who will assist with the transfer to the hotel for two nights stay in Cochin.

DAY 2

Morning proceed for the sightseeing tour of Cochin. You will have a walk around the Synagogue. The area around the synagogue is known as Jews town and is one of the Kochi's spice trade centres. Thereafter we stop at Mattancherry Dutch Palace which was built by the Portuguese and presented to the Maharaja of Cochin in 1555. Ongoing, you will visit St. Francis Church, the first church to be built in India by the Portuguese. Next after visiting Santa Cruz Cathedral, enjoy a stroll on the beach to see the Chinese fishing nets. Also visit the Hill Palace which was built in the 19th century and is the largest archaeological museum in Kerala. Later in the evening enjoy a Kathakali Dance Performance. Kathakali is a ritualized dance form that is native to Kerala, with elaborate costumes and make-up.

Breakfast
Dinner

DAY 3

Travel to Alleppey and enjoy a cruise through canals and lakes. Observe the daily life of locals residing on the banks. Your meals are locally prepared by the boatmen. This means food with lots of fresh flavours and a minimum of frills, cooked with tangy spices and plenty of coconuts. Overnight on houseboat.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

DAY 4

After breakfast disembarks the houseboat and drives through the scenic countryside toward Kovalam Beach to check-in at The Ayurveda Retreat. Evening Ayurveda doctor’s consultation and stay seven nights at the Ayurveda Retreat.

Breakfast
Dinner

DAY 5

After doctors consultation, appropriate treatment is suggested depending on the health condition of the client,
such as Abyangam with kizhi or Powder massage, or kadeevasthy or snehapanam etc.

Phase 1: is to prepare the body for purification. So why do we have to prepare the body for purification?
Because the toxins are situated in the different parts of the body or deep inside the tissues, so with those
treatments like Abyangam and Kizhi (oiletaion and fomentation) the toxins which are situated in different parts of the body will move to the stomach and then with appropriate orifices, the toxins are removed.

Phase 2: The next six days are considered as phase 2, In this period mostly the client may get Kayasekam and Siro dhara, this kind of treatment is also usually to bring the toxins out of the body or in some cases it will act as the main treatment to digest the toxins within the body itself.

Phase 3: The next three days are considered as phase 3, in this period after cleansing the body we have to rejuvenate the body with different treatments like Shastika panda sweda and all.

Last day of Treatment: The main Panchakarma therapy will be done, which depends on the dosha or depends on the condition of the body. It can be purgation with different medicines or different types of Vasthi. During this day, you are allowed to take only very light and warm food depends on doshas.