Food walks · Heritage
Ponnamma Cariappa
Madikeri, Kodagu
- Experience
- 7 years
- Rating
- 4.9 (164 reviews)
- Languages
- Kodava, Kannada, English, Hindi
- Day rate
- from ₹2,100
Ponnamma is Kodava and runs estate walks and cooking sessions built around the food her community actually eats — pandi curry, kadumbuttu, and the wild mangosteen that gives it its sourness.
Estate visits are with growers rather than at a visitor centre, and cover picking and pulping in season between November and January.
Credentials
- Karnataka Tourism registered guide
- FSSAI food-safety trained
- Member, Kodagu homestay association