Backwaters
Kerala's awesome backwater network includes five large lakes interlinked by beautiful narrow canals, and filled by 41 gushing rivers flowing down the hills of the Western Ghats. This amazing system of waterways is dotted with towns and cities offering backwater cruises that traverse the nooks and bends of narrow canals, estuaries and lakes.
Come over : experience the culture and spirit of Kerala’s backwaters. We have
houseboat cruises, backwater facing resorts, and can help you interact seamlessly with
traditional communities living on the banks.
Kerala’s backwaters harbour and support fragile coastal ecosystems that offer shelter
to many unique species of aquatic life like crabs, frogs, mudskippers wetland birds like
terns, storks, herons, cormorants, fishing eagles, and animals like otters and turtles. We
are sincerely concerned about these ecosystems and ensure all our tour programs are
eco-friendly and leave the smallest possible footprint.
Pontiac Journeys Backwater Tours
Beaches
Kerala's coastline has remarkable beaches strewn all along its 580 km length. Rocky
beaches, beaches with high laterite cliffs, high surf beaches, beaches with forts,
lagoon beaches, plain old beaches, wild beaches – you name it, we have it all. Pontiac
Journeys organises tours to all popular beaches like Kappad, Cherayi, Varkala, Kovalam
and further down south to Kanyakumari where many seas meet.
Kerala's beaches must be kept clean and litter free. All our tour programs are eco-
friendly and leave the smallest possible footprint on the environment.
Pontiac Journeys Beach Tours
Hill Stations
Hill stations were refuges from summer heat for European colonisers and are high
altitude places that have a more pleasant climate when compared to the plains. They
offer spectacular mountain views and are very good for treks, tent camps and wildlife
viewing. Pontiac Journeys operates tours and
treks to and within Ooty, Kodaikanal,
Munnar, Wynad and Vagamon.
Hill stations also offer wildlife viewing and birding opportunities and we at Pontiac
Journeys, through our passion for wildlife and nature, have charted out fascinating
treks
and tent camps through the montane forests. You can view wildlife, watch birds and
butterflies and commune with nature like never before.
Pontiac Journeys Hill Tours
Wildlife Sanctuaries:
As of now, Kerala has 6 national parks and 14 wildlife sanctuaries located mainly along
the thickly wooded regions of the Western Ghats, the most recent being Pampadum
Shola, the smallest national park in India. The astonishing biodiversity of tropical
evergreen rainforests can be experienced upfront and close while on a trip to any of
these sanctuaries. Pontiac Journeys provide tours to sanctuaries that include trekking,
wildlife viewing, birding and butterfly spotting, guided by naturalists, if required.
Pontiac Journeys Wild Tours