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Pepper Treats

Kerala travel firms to 'pepper' schemes with 'black is beautiful' tours. The 'Pepper Treats' will be topped off by visits to coffee plantations, spice highlands, ayurvedic centres, historic forts besides cultural and folk art performances. Click here.

Budget vacation

Southern Travels, a Bangalore-based travel agency, offers six types of packages to Kodaikanal, Mysore and Ooty.

A two day package to Ooty and Mysore is priced at Rs 600 per head. This includes accommodation in non-starred hotels, transport by non-AC coach from Bangalore. Children under 12 will be charged the same rate.
A two day package to Ooty and Mysore is priced at Rs 1,250 per head. This includes accommodation in three star hotels, transport by non-AC coach from Bangalore. Children under 12 will be charged the same rate.
A three day package to Ooty and Mysore is priced at Rs 900 per head. This includes accommodation in non-starred hotels, transport by non-AC coach from Bangalore. Children under 12 will be charged the same rate.
A three day package to Ooty and Mysore is priced at Rs 2,525 per head. This includes accommodation in three star hotels, transport by non-AC coach from Bangalore. Children under 12 will be charged the same rate.
A seven day package to Kodaikanal, Mysore and Ooty is priced at Rs 3,500 per head. This includes accommodation in non-starred hotels, transport by non-AC coach from Bangalore. Children under 12 will be charged the same rate.
A seven day package to Kodaikanal, Mysore and Ooty is priced at Rs 6,500 per head. This includes accommodation in three star hotels, transport by non-AC coach from Bangalore. Children under 12 will be charged the same rate.

Southern Travels, Hotel Rajkamal complex, near Sivananda stores, Kumara Park, east, Bangalore. Phones: 080-2262633, 2267040.

New Delhi at 18/2, Arya Samaj road, Karol Bagh. Phones: 011-5722210, 5724085, 5782932. Fax: 011-5751308, 5727402.

Smooth Sky Tours offers a 10 day tour to Bangalore, Mysore and Ooty.

Prices:

Rs 8,990 per person.
Rs 23,990 for two adults and one child.
Rs 29,990 for two adults and two children.

The tour price includes travel by second class sleeper to Bangalore from Bombay, non-AC car, accommodation in three or four star hotels, meals, and sightseeing.

For those who wish to do the journey by air, from Bombay, the tour prices for an eight day tour to Bangalore, Mysore and Ooty are:

Rs 14,990 per person.
Rs 39,990 for two adults and one child.
Rs 49,990 for two adults and two children.

Smooth Sky Tours, 7 Sameer Arcade, Agyari lane, Jambli Naka, Thane. Phone: 022-5349100.

Going south

Raj Travels offers a nine night and 10 day tour package to Bangalore, Mysore, Ooty and Kodaikanal.

The package is priced at: Rs 31,244 per per couple. The tour price includes transport by non-AC car from Bangalore, accommodation in moderate hotels and sightseeing. A child below 12 will be charged Rs 7,811, without extra bed.

Raj World Tours, Chowpatty View, S V P road, Chowpatty Phones: 022-3645006, 3645005.
New Delhi 409, 4th floor, 30/31 Raja House, Nehru Place. Phones: 011-6468008, 64680030.

A fancy holiday

Nirula Travels can organise a five day holiday to Ooty for Rs 39,100 for two. This package includes accommodation at The Savoy, a five star hotel in a garden facing room, a welcome drink, breakfast, lunch or dinner, hald day of sightseeing, transport from Bangalore by car and a car at your disposal throughout the vacation. It does not include airfares to Banaglore.

Nirula Travels, Mohandev Travels, 13 Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi. Phone: 011-3328121.