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Wayanad Slideshow
Top Hotels in Wayanad
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Hiliya Resort Wayanad
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Stream Valley Cottages Wayanad
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Pps Tourist Home Wayanad
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Ayurveda Yoga Villa Wayanad
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Hotel Mintflower Wayanad
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Aranyakam Wayanad
60 reviews
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Rain Country Resorts Wayanad
58 reviews
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Wayanad Blooms
149 reviews
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Royal Palm Resort Wayanad
25 reviews
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Kannur Ayurvedic Centre Wayanad
2 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Wayanad, India
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Eeewww!
This is a top pick! Day 19 ; Very boring we were! We had one more day left in the luxury hotel, and use it we did! Chilled by the pool, swam, used the gym, played cards and ate.. not much else to tell really! Day 20 ; Sultan Battery About 45 minutes further on found a top ...
Scariness....
This is a top pick! ... there eventually!! Left Kozhikode /Calicut travelled three hours north west and up into the Western Ghats towards Wayanad District, one of the most beautiful places in Southern India according to the book, and it is, too pricey for us so we are staying a ...
Ele Disappointing
After our relaxing New Year in Munnar we headed North to Sultan Bathery and the Wayanad national park. There was only one reason we came to this national park and that was to see some wild elephants. We've been lucky on this trip to see elephant’s ...
Kalpetta und Abdul der Polizist
04.04 - 05.04 Kalpettta, Kerala, Indien Kalpetta und Abdul der Polizist Kalpetta war lediglich 200km von Bekal entfernt, und so war auch die Fahrt nicht mit grossen Strapazen ...
Wallowing in Wyanad!
... natural here. Our honeymoon cottage on stilts is a little disappointiing , very basic with hard beds (very common in India!) , but clean. The verandah overlooks the stream however and the bamboo and trees and for the first time since being in India ...
Elephants in the Mist
In order to catch up with myself I might need to leave a few things out and I think Wayanard with it's 'nearly's' and it'ss bad decisions may be the first editing casualty. I'll see how my rambling gets on. It could have been a beautiful ...
Jungle bound
The plan was to get up early and cover as much ground as possible. I was heading to Wayanad wildlife sanctuary where the lonely planet had promised wild elephants and local folklore held stories of wild tigers. After getting up a little late, packing my ...
Green Mount Cottage
The Green mount cottage is conveniently located in the heart of Kalpetta, the head quarters of Wayanad, popularly known as the green paradise! Even though it is situated in the heart of the city, it presents a calm and quiet atmosphere to make you feel ...
More Coffee Plantations
... kicking back, so another Indian city doesn't fit the bill. So, we headed back into the coffee and banana plantations into the Wayanad district. We stayed with a super friendly family (Jonny, Ancie, Anju and Babu) at the Hilyia plantation. We had a massive ...
Mysore to Kalpatta in search of elephants
Arrived in Kalpatta to go to Wayanad national park, were told it was amazing and we must go, on arrival just as we were booking in to a hotel we were told by a Spanish couple that we shouldn't as the park had been closed for the last month due to a ...
1 month of mooching around India
... From Hampi we Excitedly took a bus into Kerala ........a state that we had heard was amazingly beautiful and where INdia is a little more tame ........down a couple of notches in general everyday craziness..........so we were excited .........and ...
Mum & Ped come to visit
... best two weeks and I showed them all the sights and people and tastes I'd got to know in Wayanad, North Kerala. We had a gentle introduction to India in Mysore, bought saris, traveled in an an Ambassador and rickshaws, saw temples, monkeys and tried some ...
A day in the life
Here's what we've been up to.. Cut a tree down a few days ago to get wood to make some paddles for the rafts. Used a rope an axe and a few machetes, no problem. Two days ago we went to reccie some back up routes in the cloud forest now ...
Bus station monkeys, wild elephants, and clowns
... used to secure luggage to the roof, dangling from the windscreen wipers and generally using the bus as a play ground. The Wayanad wildlife park itself is split into two halves - both apparently good places to see wild elephants. The first afternoon we ...
Wayanad National Park - Into the wild
... at the sight of the other. After a night of swatting mosquitoes, we were up at the crack of dawn and on our way to Wayanad National Park for another safari, this time by jeep. This park was better organized, there being only for of us in a small jeep, ...
Easy riders
... beaches and mountain roads in Kerala are breathtaking and we had an awesome time just riding between things. We spent two days in Wayanad region trekking with Muddy Boots, the local guides I had trekked with on Raleigh, and had the bike 80% fixed in ...
Frog hunting
Johnson took me frog hunting last night. The monsoon has just started and apparently for one week the frogs will be out mating, and therefore croaking like sitting ducks. To hunt a frog you have to go out just after dark into a swamp or paddy field ...
Settling in at Muddy Boots
I'm settled here in Kalpetta, a town in Wayanad district of Kerala, South India. I have a room (it's been a while!) and a job! From my window I can see monkeys birds and one large ferret type creature. I'm working with Muddy Boots Vacations.. ...
Goodbye for now..
So I'm updating this live, from the muddy boots office at my leaving party. I'm being fed cucumber and carrot starter and I'm wearing my hand woven double dothi and shirt, in the style of Mahatma Gandhi, a present from my friends here. ...
Wayanad Road Trip!
... sooo good! The next morning we packed up and headed off from Coorg, passing over into northern Kerala and on to Wayanad. However, there must have been something in the water up in Honey Valley, as my stomach was doing somersaults and I found ...
Elephant Safari By Jeep In The Garden Of Eden
... natural wind chimes. Very Zen darling. The bamboo sticking out of the ground was like a giant game of pick up sticks. Wayanad Tourism's brochure encourages an activity for tourists to do which is to 'get lost in the woods and use your survival ...
Wayanad: elephants and flowers
... . We were ferried for over 25 minutes of teeth-rattling road interspersed with bits of paving up into the hills of Wayanad. It's not clear why some stretches are paved and some aren't; perhaps the paved stretches would be even worse than ...
Wayanad, and an Archaeological Encounter.
... barged through (knocking trees over in their wake) in their quest for ripe Jackfruit – mmm, sweeet, sweeet Jackfruit… Wayanad has two National Parks, Muthanga and Tholpetty. On Saturday we were driven across to Muthanga to go on an elephant ...
How to trek in the monsoon!
So let me tell you about trekking during the monsoon. I just spent a month out in the forests with Raleigh groups - hardcore - loved it! (Raleigh groups are twelve or so 18-25 year olds with two older project managers) First thing to realise ...
This is what I came for!
I woke up two days ago to the sound of heavy rain, and sure enough the monsoon had started! It had been raining hard all night and continued for about 48 hours. I immediately went for a run to soak up the atmosphere (get it?). I just ...
Trekking in India
The first project was a trek through the Wayanad region of Karnataka and Kerala. We walked for 19 days through pristine jungle, forest, grasslands and mountains carrying everything with us. Apart from one hernia casualty the whole team made it ...
Trek project recce
So at the start, before the venturers arrived the project management teams for the trekking phases went out to recce the trek projects and check out where we'd be going. No need for leech socks though eh Shane? How bad can ...
Blog 42: Malabars, Elephants, and Boars... Oh My!
... in the area, for if we had done so we might have found out what everyone was whispering about. We loved all of India, but Wayanad was one of those places that just got too built up and combined with our exhaustion, could not deliver—it really ...
Amazing. End of.
The highlight of Kerala, India or anywhere else I've ever visited probably. It's not easy to get too, 5 hr train from Cochin and a hairy 3 hr bus trek up winding jungle mountains to Kolpetta, a small town close to the wildlife sanctuary. It wasn't a ...
Kerela
Hoping for some better weather i am in the hills now....the pin on the map is almost right, but i can't remember the indian name for this place.. Now plans for the direct future..so probably moving south to ...
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