Sample Itinerary
The Kerala Table
Food is memory, medicine, and welcome — all on one banana leaf.
4 days / 3 nights
Year-round
Ernakulam · Alappuzha
2–8 guests
Kerala's food is not cuisine. It is an entire philosophy — of season, of community, of welcome. The Kerala Table takes you into the homes, spice gardens, and market lanes where this food actually lives.
You cook with a grandmother whose sadya has never appeared on any menu. You sit under a jackfruit tree and eat the Onam feast the way it was meant to be eaten. You visit a toddy shop that has been open since your host's great-grandfather was a boy.
This is not a cooking class. It is a food education, told through smell and taste and the warmth of someone's kitchen.
Day by Day
Day 1 – The Spice Origin
Morning visit to Kochi spice market with a guide · Identify and taste 20+ spices · Traditional Kerala breakfast at a local home · Afternoon: visit a home spice garden · Evening: cooking class — fish curry and appam
Day 2 – The Full Sadya
Depart to village outside Alleppey · Watch a traditional sadya being prepared (16–24 dishes) · Participate in the cooking · Sit down to eat the complete sadya on banana leaf · Afternoon: river walk · Toddy shop visit
Day 3 – The Food Trail
Morning: local breakfast walk through tiffin shops and tea stalls · Afternoon: Kerala snack-making demonstration (banana chips, murukku, unniyappam) · Final meal: home-hosted feast cooked together
Day 4 (Optional)
Kochi Jewish Quarter spice trade history walk · Syrian Christian home for breakfast · Depart
What's Included
Included
- Curated stay (boutique or heritage home)
- All meals including all cooking sessions
- Spice market & food trail visits
- Cooking class with local host family
- Traditional sadya experience
- Toddy shop visit with local food
- Private guide & Raw India Experience host
Not Included
- Flights & inter-city transfers
- Alcoholic beverages beyond the toddy trail
From ₹61,400 per person + stay
Activities-only price for groups of 3–10. Solo travellers pay +30% and couples +15%. Your stay tier is chosen separately and shown before you book. This is an estimate — the final price is confirmed when we design your itinerary.
This is a sample outline, not a fixed package. Every journey we plan is shaped around your dates, pace and interests, and the order or pacing of days may change. Onam season (August–September) offers the most authentic sadya experience.