A Cambridge Alumni Private Tour: Spice, Trade and Botanical Histories Along the Malabar Coast

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4 – 19 February 2027

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Experience sumptuous Mysore

Mysore

Visit a palace, a sandalwood factory, take high tea in a heritage building and watch traditional hand rolling techniques in a family run Ayurvedic plant.

Visit ‘Snooty Ooty’ the Queen of the Hill Stations

Ooty

Enjoy a spectacular journey through the Blue Mountains to the hill station of Ooty and visit a tea plantation, an old cinchona factory and its famed botanical gardens

Cruise the serene backwaters of Alleppey

Alleppey

Board a private converted rice barge. See Keralan life unfold as you drift through the canals past vivid green rice paddies and coconut farms. Enjoy lunch on board.

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Honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a fellow of the Linnean Society.

Gina Fullerlove