Chennai Tours in November 2025

Great well organised tour with an excellent tour guide, Jojan Matthews. The accommodation was wonderful but really believe that the overnight train did not add to the trip. I have done a few overnight trains in India and slept not well but that one to Chennai had so many stops, 23 I believe, that it made it made it awful.. So called express it definitely wasn’t. We had people arguing in our compartment at 12:30am followed by others coming in and signing lights at you. Maybe give people an alternative to get to Chennai and meet up there for the final dinner and tour of the temples. Otherwise I definitely will use Explore again! Thank you.

Excellent trip to Kerela. Such variety in this trip. Feels like we’ve been away for a month rather than two weeks we saw and did so much. Absolutely brilliant. The contrast between the beach, the midlands and the highlands was fabulous. The home stay was top rate. Felt so relaxed and comfortable and the home cooked food by Grace was incredible. Highly recommend.

Utterley amazing tour. First Explore tour for many years and first one without the children again. The Indian people are so welcoming and we find the country so interesting. Great group and itinary. Top notch Tour Leader, Reggie you were a star. Definitely use Explore again.

The itinerary is good, but full-on. Explore and all the other similar companies seem to compete by how many places they can fit into a trip, which is good if you want a taster, but not-so-good if you want to spend a bit of time in your preferred locations. However, the only disappointing part was the houseboat; the backwaters are full of them....not very idyllic. Our guide and driver were amazing; they took care of everything so it was relaxing despite the schedule.

We could not have wanted more from the trip or Sam our leader, both exceeded expectations. The accommodation was by and large good however a few venues could have been better located (particularly Cochin) and the home stay was very basic but what do you expect?! Cycling really made it an immersive experience and given the heat and humidity, the amount of cycling was judged right. I must finish by saying Sam the leader was excellent in his patience and wonderfully sincere and informed commentary.

This trip was great and I highly recommend it. Sam, our guide, was excellent as was his support team. We saw and experienced sights and locations that we could not have done so on our own.