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Kumily Slideshow
Kumily
Travel Blogs from Kumily, India
Shhhh it's behind you!
... and not quite so high up as Munnar and around 750 sq km. We had accommodation booked in the nearby village called Kumily but also known as Thekaddy and all three terms are used interchangeably. We never figured out the difference between the latter two. ...
Kumily-Kerala
31.04.07-03.05.07 Kumily what agreat place I loved it!We stayed in a place called Meadow View Inn in our own little hut(bedroom & ensuite),there was afew little treehouses around & a watch-tower overlooking Perriyar national park.We settled into ...
"Sir, don't be offended - you were wrong to ask"
I am in Kumily for a few days exploring the Periyar National Park and surrounds. It is nice and relaxing. I headed into town one night for dinner hoping to meet some people and perhaps have a drink. This funny old guy starts talking to ...
A small town up in the Western Ghats
... with our bags and went for a walk in this quaint hill town and got some chai. We were the only passengers held over until Kumily and the driver and two ticket men were happy to talk with us. Lena found a small lizard and played with it which amused them ...
Road Trip!!
... rest had to muddle through as best they could and for that Bex and me will be forever grateful. On our way to Kumily, Gineu stopped off at a Spice Garden where we saw all sorts of plants and learnt about their medicinal quality. Our guide ...
An educational experience... in many ways
... in extremely broken English and your guessing half the conversation. Learning about Mohammed We were just getting packed up to leave beautiful Kumily in the midst of Kerela's tea mountains, when in pops Abbas, the owner of the cottages we were staying ...
ELEPHANTS!!
... sprayed us with water from her trunk! it was just amazing! i think it has only just finally clicked that we really are in india and how great this has all been! then we went to a tea factory, which surprisingly was really interesting - the workers only ...
Woohoo we saw elephants!
... us) where we spent the afternoon swimming in the ocean and relaxing on the beach before a lovely western meal by candlelight. Our time in India is coming to a close and it is slowly dawning on us how far we've come, how much we've learned grown through ...
On the way to the (cold) uplands!!!
... in France it's now around 0 at night, you can guess I was not complaining at all .... did not even think about it! Kumily has a (very) large reserve within the mountains, home for deers, elephants, bisons, boars, several species of amazing birds, etc. ... ...
Festival spice
... to me, seeing people in such a state of ecstasy. We decided to move on a couple of days later (having been in lovely Kumily, and the lovely Meadow View Inn Guest house for almost 2 wks), but not before we secured a rose and jasmine plant for the ...
Tea plantations
We just had a trip up in to the hills of Karala, we went with a couple women we met at our little hotel one of them actually runs the place a great German lady who gives all her profit from the hotel to programs for the poor. We like her a lot. So we ...
Wildlife up in the hills
Arrived in Kumily (on border between Kerala and Tamil Nadu) on Monday. Kumily is a hill station town and is surrounded by tea plantations. We had to go on a long bus journey at break neck speed up steep hills to get here but its worth it! The buses have ...
Kumily/Periyar Wildlife Park
Wildlife sanctuary tucked away in the hills of Kerala, minutes from the Tamil Nadu border. Kumily is a small friendly place where one can by spices, tea and other wildlife associated souvenirs. The wildlife sanctuary here contains elephants, boars, ...
No, but I did see some elephants
Today I went on the full day "Border Hike" around the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary. It was a 16km walk through the bush following what looked like animal tracks for the most part. I didn't see any tigers but I did see two elephants and a calf ...
At home in the world
... our things, ate some breakfast and set off to find a bus that would take us up the mountains towards Kumily, a small isolated city at the edge of India's largest wildlife preserve. The bus ride was a trip in and of itself. For sevenish hours we sat ...
Born Again
... sea. We could only see the peaks of the ridge across from us at first, but after some time it cleared to a magnificent view of Kumily, the forest we walked through and the rice-paddy fields of Kerala's neighboring state, Tamil Nadu, at the far end of the ...
Dschungelabenteuer
Nach den ruhigen Tagen am Strand erreichten wir vorgestern am Nachmittag das Dorf Kumily, angrenzend an einen der größten indischen Nationalparks ("Periyar"). Es ging hierhin wieder hoch hinaus in die Berge mit dem Bus: Diesmal mit einem großen, ...
Senteurs d`epices
Suite de nos aventures. De Varkarla, nous avons pris un taxi, direction Periyar, qui abrite l`une des plus grandes reserves naturelles de l`Inde, appelee la `Tiger Reserve`. Notre chauffeur roulait comme un fou, 5 h de route a travers de belles routes de ...
elephants and rain!
come here for the national park but it is pissing it down everywhere!managed to stop this morning so i got to do the elephant ride and shower etc!the local bus ride here was actually amazing apart from the sickness i had picked up from the ...
The great escape
... , mooie kostuums, handgebaartjes, gekke bekken en trommelmuziek, erg bijzonder! In de bergen van India vind je veel theeplantages. In de buurt van Kumily staat een theefabriek dus heb ik de volgende dag de bus gepakt om daar een ...
Safari
Oh Yeah! Today we're going to see tigers - and LOTS of elephants! We're doing a jeep safari!So, a 5.00 am start was not an issue!Leaping into our jeep with our - now - new found Belgian friends we were filled with enthusiasm for the day. On arriving in ...
