Travel Blogs from Munnar, India
Every step gets us closer to Nepal..!
... you have an old bum Phillipa, or even saggy for that matter). Am assuming that Munnar is perhaps most sexually frustrated town in India? Munnar was a holiday place for British high society (may explain the weird bum fetish) during the time of the Raj, ...
Heffalumps and Birthdays
... the experience of a lifetime, one that I will try to repeat. I hope you enjoy the photos. We took the 5 hour bus to Munnar. Wending our way up through, as far as I was concerned, the treacherous hair-pin bends of Kerala’s beautiful tea plantations. ...
Munnar
... . Thankfully this area is kept very clean and is well maintained. Before returing to hotel for lunch we had a quick detour through Munnar market. Its a small but bustling market area and lots of things to buy, the foremost being "Tea". Best place to get ...
Det kolde Munnar
Hej Alle Saa er der lige lidt billeder fra Munnar. Munnar er en bjergby ca 1500 m over havet og her er derfor et lidt anderledes klima. Ligesom i Kumily er her lidt koeligere, faktisk koldt. Om natten maatte vi sove med uldtaepper og stadig fryse lidt. ...
The Cockroach Express into Southern India
... raiding party. The nature boat cruise we had at one point considered joining resembled the Spanish Armada. But noisier. Next stop is Munnar. The centre of Keralas tea industry it's around 4 hours further North. The town sits at 1600 metres above sea ...
To Wait & To Blog
... nonexistent mountain corners carefully when he needed to unlike most drivers we have encountered. We eventually arrived into a very cool Munnar just after 8pm and checked into our room for the night at JJ's Cottage. The owner was waiting for ...
Shut The Shutters
... was an early morning climb before sunrise with a few others, and the third was a very windy, misty day with a couple of French guys and a Scottish couple. We thought Munnar was a good place to stay for a few days before hitting the beach for ...
Greenery, Tea and a Refreshing Breeze
... TV. The only really interesting event was a short visit to the tea museum. It features some historical exhibits from colonial Munnar and a small tea processing plant for demonstration. The museum tour guide tried to explain what all those nasty-looking ...
Munnar
... aches and pains from the previous evening’s ‘big match’ we managed to drag ourselves up to a view that made it well worth the early rise. Munnar turned out to be more than we expected and was a great place to relax and cool ...
Ouahhh ... Magnifique paysage
We ended up in Munnar by accident, seeking for a more peaceful and cool destination on the way to Madurai. We got the tour arranged by our guesthouse in Kochi, we arrived tired with very low expectations and it turned out to be one of the most amazing ...
The Green Green Hills of Munnar
... and this has ensured that the native forest has been left largely intact in the areas where cardamom is grown. As we approached Munnar, the forest was replaced by a rolling green sea of tea plantations stretching in all directions and the bare tops of ...
Magnificent Munnar
... a small bag. Overall the museum had been so interesting and was a great way to finish off our tour of Munnar, a destination that we thoroughly enjoyed and would have loved to have spent more time. After leaving the Tea Factory we were ...
Ahhh...the fresh cool air
... go - power cut! Right here we go again. After loads of power cuts (they happen everyday several times per day in India - major energy problems) Im back writing here 10 days late. Some of the internet places have back up batterys that will only last a ...
Hill Station : My Cuppa Tea !!
Munnar - Definitely my Cuppa Tea !!! After breakfast we headed towards Munnar which is about 3 hours from Kochi Munnar is located about 6000 ft. above sea level and the rolling hills are carpeted ...
Mt. Anamudi, Munnar, Kerala + Music Video by Feist
... Ravi the day before to take us trekking up into the Western Ghats and the second highest mountain in Southern India. The mountain is just outside of Munnar and sits next door to the highest mountain in S. India--Ana Mudi (2,695 meters/8,842 ft), ...
Herrliche Ausblicke auf die Tea-Plantations
Mit dem Bus fuhren wir 5 Stunden ueber staubige Strassen durch unendlich viele Staedte und Doerfer und kamen dann in Munnar an. Munner ist ein Traum. Ein kleines Dorf inmitten von Teeplantagen. Da es in etwa 1300 Meter ueber Meer liegt ist es ...
Munnar and the Misty Views
... Point, where a large group of noisy Indians obliged with the shouts over the water to get an echoed shout back. But this is India, and despite the beauty of the landscape it is marred by the continual rubbish, a pile that was being burnt as we were ...
Blg 38: Munnar: 1 of the World's Hottest Bio-Spots
... ; We finished the day by climbing to what is called the Scotland of India, which happened to be our destination: Munnar, the place of three rivers. I hope the pictures do the place a tad bit of justice ...
Coconuts and Rubies
... I had on this trip as the same or would I find it completely different ? I've seen films of great culinary experiences in India, would I find those ? I've had some very good food on his trip, but perhaps overall my culinary experience has been slightly ...
So peaceful in the clouds
My day today slightly changed its direction from the off. I had planned to rise with the sun and travel 20 miles to top station. But the cloud and weather didn't permit. So a light breakfast of curry and then out to the tea making unit. Quite ...
It's cold up here...
Made my way to Munnar 1600 it's quite an unnerving mountain road where you snake a tiny road with big busses and trucks sheer drops just to the side. But I always find theses old mountain track roads alway offer a view or natural feature that always take ...
Anyone for chai?
My bus from Kumily to Munnar took 5 hours and was probably the most beautiful (although most uncomfortable) journeys I have been on in my life. The journey took us through the cardomon hills, through tea plantation after tea plantation, round hair pin ...
Tea and more tea, beautiful Kerala
The next couple days will be spent in Munnar, a hill station. European colonists came to the hill stations to avoid the summer’s intense heat. Munnar is a tea, coffee and spice growing area. It has incredible beauty to the area. We left Kochi to ...
Misty Mountain India
We had a great drive up into the mountains. The drive up was curvy and we stopped a few times to look at rubber trees, spice plants, and waterfalls. The Dew Drops Home stay is quiet and the temp has cooled down into the 80s. There are occasional ...
Munnar
... to Munnar that day. Which was a great choice as the main things to see are the tea plantations and the spice gardens on the way to Munnar. The driver stopped on the way allowing us to take pictures of the Cardamom plants and all the tea ...
Da Kodaikanal a Munnar
Passiamo in Kerala scendendo a Munnar, un postaccio ma in ambiente bellissimo, colline verdi con piantagioni di the... solo qualche ...
Get into a mystical misty mood
... 't going under the speed limit. We got up there without a hitch, with me sniggering at big billboards that said things like "Munnar! Get into a mystical misty mood!" OoOoOoooOo okay then if you say so, here goes nothing! Arriving at our place there was ...
Top station: not so tops.
... owner of the resort Mr George, came in and told us to 'eat all of it' and that it was very bad to waste in India. Which I thought should probably have meant they could have given us a little less food so as not to challenge our stomachs, but even with a ...

