The Boat cruise at Periyar Lake ,Thekkady has been restarted from 15th Jan'10 under very strict security precautions.The Cruise Hours has been reduced to 1 Hr with in  5 Kms range.Those who hold Entry passess to the wild life sanctury will only be permited to buy the tickets.All IDT guests will get the Boating facilities  as a part of the package with out any problems.Our full time representative at Periyar will take careoff the guests.For More details pl.mail to info@indiadestinationtours.com 

Due to intesense land slide & erosion by heavy rain,the railway lines between Mettupalayam & ootty has been completely damaged and the Mountain Train journey is suspended indefenitely.The disrupted Road traffic has been restarted now.Those guests who have  booked our Tour to ootty with Mountain train journey has to  contact us at info@indiadestinationtours.com

In the midst of the introduction of new guidelines on tourist visas, the government announced tourist visa on arrival for citizens five countries including Japan, New Zealand and Singapore, in an effort to promote tourism.

The ministry of external affairs said that the visa on arrival plan for Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore would be implemented from Friday and would continue for a year on an "experimental basis." The visas given on arrival for the nationals of these five countries will have a maximum validity of 30 days with single entry facility which will be given initially by the immigration officers at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata airports.For Finland guests pl.contact Indian Embassies in your respective countries.