Serenity at Kanam estate is an intensely private villa hotel surrounded by rubber estates and tropical spice gardens. Thoroughly re-designed Estate bungalow has fully retained its heritage ambience and blends into an unspoiled rural setting.
Serenity at Kanam estate is an intensely private villa hotel surrounded by rubber estates and tropical spice gardens. Thoroughly re-designed Estate bungalow has fully retained its heritage ambience and blends into an unspoiled rural setting.
Airport - 107 km from Cochin International Airport
Railway Station - 2kms from Alleppey Railway Station
Bus stand -24 km from Kottayam Town bus stand
Comprises 6 rooms categorized as: 3 Double Deluxe rooms (1 on the ground floor 2 on the first floor 2 of them are Air conditioned.2 Double, Deluxe twin rooms 1 on the ground floor 1 on the first Floor 1 Double, Deluxe room on the first floor with the bath outside the room.
Pure spa, yoga, swimming pool, badminton, mountain bikes, free internet, cooking demonstrations, selection of movies & books
A Day with the elephant - While staying the comfort of this charming boutique hotel, which is amidst the rubber plantations between Cochin and Thekkady, your day with an elephant will begin after breakfast. You will be taken to meet the female Elephant Lakshmi and her mahout who both live close by (1 ½ miles away). Initially you will be provided with a bunch of bananas to feed her as this works as a good introduction / ice-breaking method between you and Lakshmi. She is a wonderful, tamed elephant who used to work for a circus before being rescued by her present mahout, and she now earns her living undertaking farm and forest activities.
The mahout gives you an introduction to the command and communication which will help you to interact with Lakshmi better. After you have become acquainted with Lakshmi, you may go out and spend a few hours riding around the beautiful surroundings of Kanam Estate and the local countryside. After a while on elephant back, you will be taken to one of the nearby farm nearby farms, which are teeming with rubber, banana, papaya, pepper, coffee, pineapple and cocoa plantations. You may tour these plantations either on foot or riding Lakshmi. Later you if you wish you can give her a bath and also get an Elephant shower.
Bathing the Elephants is an amazing experience with Lakshmi enjoying the massage with the brush. Each one of you will be allowed to take time and bathe Lakshmi. Thereafter Lakshmi will give you a shower with water from her trunk one by one. You will be all wet but absolutely thrilled.