NRI Homecoming Break
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Not another family visit. A private journey that lets your children see where you come from, and lets you rest for once.
You know it well. The flight lands, the car is late, and for the next two weeks you are a host, a guest and a driver all at once. Relatives to see, weddings to attend, a house to open. You go home, but you rarely see home.
And your children, if they were born in the Gulf, often leave with the same flat impression: the airport, a hot house, a lot of aunties. Not the paddy fields. Not the tea hills. Not the canal where their grandfather learned to swim.
A Raw Kerala homecoming is the other kind of visit. We take care of the logistics. You and your family experience Kerala as guests, with the depth of someone who belongs there and the comfort of someone who doesn't have to organise it.
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Rediscover the Kerala you thought you knew. A tharavad (ancestral home) visit, a morning with a toddy-tapper's family, a banana-leaf sadya in a home kitchen. Tharavad Visit · Village Family Night · Banana Leaf Sadya Experience
Let your children do what you did, and what you never did. Paddle a canoe, shape clay, try a chenda drum, learn a first Mohiniyattam step. Canoe Ride, Village Canals · Clay Pottery · Percussion Workshop · Mohiniyattam Dance Class
Sit with Kerala's other histories. Fort Kochi's Jewish, Dutch and Portuguese layers, and Kerala's old Christian communities. Fort Kochi Heritage Walk · Village Church Heritage Walk · Oldest Jewish Synagogue
Come for the festivals. Temple Festival Walk · Onam Festival: Full Celebration Day · Snake Boat Racing Experience
Rest, properly. Ayurveda, yoga and a plantation morning, for the parents who rarely get one. Ayurvedic Consultation · Yoga at Sunrise
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Gulf calendars are short and precise: Eid breaks, the school summer holiday, mid-term weeks, the December and New Year gap. We plan around them.
| Break | Length | Shape |
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| Homecoming Break | 5 days | Kochi and the backwaters, with the family kitchen and village canal at the centre. |
| The Long Homecoming | 7 to 8 days | Add the Munnar highlands for the children's first tea hills. |
| The Festival Homecoming | 5 to 7 days | Built around Onam, a temple festival or Vishu. |
Our minimum journey is 5 days, so there is no shorter long-weekend format for now.
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Coming from abroad or from the Gulf? See our international visitors guide for visa basics and the official fee schedule.
For comfort: December to March, driest in February and March. For festivals: Vishu in April; Onam in August or September. For quiet and Ayurveda: the monsoon, June to September, which also overlaps the Gulf summer holiday. See Best Time to Visit Kerala.
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Yes. Many homecomings are three generations. Share ages and mobility needs and we'll set the pace around them.
Yes. A private journey means we can add them for a meal or an activity. Tell your curator in advance.
We charge one transparent price for the journey, based on party size and stay tier. There are no separate rates.
Five days is the minimum journey we design. Seven to eight is comfortable for a first experience of the highlands and the backwaters.
Yes, in the right place, and we'll fit it around your plans. We can include a family visit as part of the day, and your driver stays with you throughout.
No. Anyone with roots in Kerala, or any family curious about it, is welcome. This page is written for Gulf and diaspora families. ---
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