Trip highlights
A day on the Vizag coast, then Borra Caves and the coffee hills of Araku.
Kailasagiri, Rushikonda and the RK Beach eveningThe Borra Caves, lit a million years deepKatiki and Chaparai, the ghat waterfallsBamboo chicken up in the coffee country
Day-wise plan
Meals and stay listed on every day · pace built for a group.
1Day 1 · Day 01: The Vizag coast: Kailasagiri, Rushikonda and the beach road. · Meals: ·
- Arrive in Visakhapatnam, meet your trip captain and check in.
- Up to Kailasagiri on the hilltop, for the Shiva and Parvati statues and the view down over the bay.
- On to Rushikonda Beach, the cleanest stretch of sand on this coast.
- The evening along RK Beach, with the lit-up promenade and the sea on one side the whole way.
- Overnight in Visakhapatnam.
2Day 2 · Day 02: Up the ghats: Borra Caves, Katiki Waterfalls and Chaparai. · Meals: ·
- Breakfast, then start the climb into the Eastern Ghats towards Araku, about three and a half hours through tunnels and hairpin bends.
- Stop at the Borra Caves, a million-year-old limestone system lit up deep underground.
- Walk the last stretch to Katiki Waterfalls, roughly a kilometre over rock from the road.
- On to Chaparai, where the water runs flat over bare stone and you can sit straight in it.
- Cross the Wooden Bridge on the way in, a favourite stop for a photo.
- Check in at Araku and stay the night up in the hills, where it gets properly cold after dark.
3Day 3 · Day 03: The Pinery, the coffee country, and back down to the coast. · Meals: ·
- Breakfast and check out.
- A slow morning through the Pinery, the pine stretch on the edge of the valley.
- Time among the coffee slopes and the tribal museum before the descent.
- Worth trying: the bamboo chicken, cooked in a hollow bamboo over an open fire, which is a valley speciality.
- Drive back down to Visakhapatnam for your onward journey home.
Where you'll stay
The properties this batch sleeps in — swapped only for something equal or better.
Visakhapatnam stay1 night · sharing basis, separate rooms for men and women
Araku Valley stay1 night · sharing basis, cold hill nights
What's in, what's not
Included
- Accommodation for 2 nights on a sharing basis, with separate rooms for men and women.
- All travel through the trip as per the itinerary, in an AC vehicle.
- Breakfast on both mornings.
- A Travloger trip captain with the group for the whole trip.
- All tolls, parking, permits and driver allowances.
Not included
- Entry fees at the caves, the viewpoints and the museums.
- Any activity or ride not named in the inclusions.
- Meals other than the breakfasts listed, including lunches and dinners on the go.
- Any kind of food or beverage not included in the package, such as alcoholic drinks and mineral water.
- Travel insurance and any charges arising from calamities.
- Anything not mentioned in the inclusions.
