The Kallar river running over rock at first light

A TRIVENI HOUSE  ·  INLAND · PONMUDI ROAD

Where nature finds its flow

A planter's house on the Ponmudi road, three rooms deep, close enough to the water that you hear it from every bed.

3 rooms, sleeps 8 40 km from Thiruvananthapuram Best October to March Two-night minimum

01 — THE HOUSE

Three rooms at the edge of the forest

A two-storey house of red clay tiles and warm yellow walls, set back behind a white picket fence and a lawn that runs into the trees. Mornings are birdsong and green light; evenings are quiet, with the forest close on every side.

Triveni Kallar: a two-storey house with red tiled roofs, a white picket fence and a lawn against the forest
Rooms
3 doubles, 1 with a loft
Where
Mottamoodu, Kallar P.O
Best for
Rain, walking, reading
From
₹5,200 monsoon · ₹8,400 high
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02 — THE ROOMS

Three rooms, no two alike

The River Room, bed with a window on the water

The River Room

Sleeps 2 · 32 m² · Ground floor, opens to the rock terrace.

From ₹6,500

The Loft Room, teak stair and loft bed

The Loft

Sleeps 4 · 44 m² · Double below, two singles up the stair.

From ₹8,900

03 — NEARBY

Within an hour of the door

Places guests tend to end up. Nothing is booked or guided by us — we just tell you how to get there.

01

River walk to the falls

Two hours upstream over rock, then a pool cold enough to hurt. Best before nine.

02

Ponmudi at first light

Twenty-two hairpins up into tea. We wake you at five and you are back before the heat.

03

The village and the tank

A slow hour on foot: the temple tank, the tailor, the tea shop older than the road.

04 — GETTING HERE

Forty kilometres, and the last eight are slow

Trivandrum airport1 hr 10 min
Trivandrum Central station1 hr
Theeram, on the coast1 hr 30 min

Pick-up is included from the airport or the station. Send us your train number and someone will be standing there with your name.

Directions to Kallar
Illustrated map of the coast, the river and both houses

05 — BOOK KALLAR

Book the house directly, or wherever you keep your trips.

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4.9 ★★★★★ 41 Google reviews for Kallar ↗
The river is louder than you expect and you stop minding by the second night. The house is exactly as photographed.

Ananya R. · March

We walked to the falls before anyone else was up. Came back three weeks later.

Daniel K. · August