Stay in a 1920s planter's cottage in Yercaud, surrounded by coffee gardens and orange groves, with home-cooked meals and veranda evenings.
Sleep in a restored 19th-century Nattukottai Chettiar mansion with Athangudi tile floors, Burma teak columns, and traditional courtyard dining.
Stay with a fisher family on the edge of the Pichavaram mangrove forest — India's second largest mangrove ecosystem — with boat access and bird-watching.
Retreat to a wooden cabin in the shola forests above Kodaikanal — off-grid, wood-heated, and surrounded by the silence of the Palani Hills.
Stay in a mud-and-stone cottage on a Nilgiri hillside, with organic meals, fireplace evenings, and trails through shola grasslands.
Sleep in a treehouse perched above a coffee estate in the Anamalai Hills, with lion-tailed macaques and Malabar hornbills as neighbours.
Navaratri and Golu
நவராத்திரி கொலு
11 Oct – 20 Oct 2026
Raja Raja Chola Sadhaya Vizha, Thanjavur
ராஜராஜ சோழன் சதய விழா
21 Oct – 22 Oct 2026
Deepavali
தீபாவளி
8 Nov 2026
Karthigai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai
கார்த்திகை தீபம்
15 Nov – 24 Nov 2026
Margazhi Music and Dance Season, Chennai
மார்கழி இசை விழா
15 Dec – 1 Jan 2027
Mamallapuram Dance Festival
மாமல்லபுரம் நாட்டிய விழா
21 Dec – 20 Jan 2027