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Munnar Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Munnar, India
One of the most beautiful places on earth
I have never seen anything as beautiful as these tea plantations smothering the hills in different shades of green. I was knee deep in tea ! ...
Another steam bath episode
... and hotels and we had a great lunch at one of them with the most glorious outlook over tea plantations and mountains. All trip in Munnar Michael kept saying, "all I want to do is walk through a tea plantation that's all I want to do." So downstairs in ...
The Princess, the Palace, Pele and the Pachyderm
(Peter writing)Let me set the scene. I'm sitting on the fourth story balcony of our palatial hotel called Silvertips. Surrounding the hotel are endless hills covered in endless lush green tea plantations. Below me is a soccer pitch, the perimeter of ...
Tata tea et compagnie!
Cher tous, Encore une fois, désolés pour le retard du blog, nous avons été extrêmement occupés ces derniers jours ! Il est cependant enfin temps de vous parler du week-end dernier où nous avons visité, le tant attendu Etat du Kérala. Après une ...
Kerala - Beauty personified
... the view within visual range was merely lush hills of varying hights with every shade of green imaginable. Although far from Bollywood, Munnar had become quite the centre of showbiz for the duration of our visit, as it turned out Sharukh Khan was filming ...
Mission to Munnar
Hello Everyone, Just got into Munnar a few hours ago. Munnar is located in the hills of South India and its surrounded by many tea plantation. Its an amazing drive up here, like looking out onto a green tea ocean. Unfortunately I wasn't in much of a state ...
Munnar, India
... better after. F minus minus for Coimbatore. (Oh, side note on this story, it takes EIGHT hours to get to Munnar from Coimbatore, don't believe them when they say two) Now - let me tell you a little something about these government buses we ...
Gree Tea Plantations and Mountain Treck in Munnar
Posted a few pics from the tea plantations in Munnar. Spectacular treck up the 2nd highest mountain in Southern India- sunrise, clouds moving below us, rain, flowers. Stories to follow... drinking so much masala chai tea.... loving ...
Munnar - Tea and Treking
... squeeze but cheap. There were two Israelis, Uval and Aten, and six English, Jules, Shaun, Tom, Becky and Jo and I Munnar town is nothing special, dominated by a church, mosque and Hindu temple, pretty busy and probably best avoided but the ...
Hill station
... anyway. It was such a huge difference in temperature. We were sweating so much in Kottayam and arriving 6.30am in Munnar we were already shivering with only a few plus degrees. About sweating, past week was pretty hot, we slept in rooms ...
From the Spices of Munnar - Backwaters of Kerala
... , believe you me. You almost DIE here!!!! Early the next morning we started our 5 hour drive up into the mountains of Munnar,a popular hill station frequented by the British to escape the searing summer heat. What a beautiful drive this was - we ...
Muckin' it up in Munnar
Up at 7am for a guided 1.5 hour trek through the tea fields, nearby towns. Learned about tea shrubs, seeds and flowers. Our guide's English was impeccable….he is in school for a degree (he already has a number of other degrees) that will ...
God's own country
... de feuilles. Ariane continue gaiement. J'ai décidé de garder cette histoire d'éléphant pour moi. Nous quittons déjà Munnar. On recommande vraiment cette destination, et on regrette de n'avoir pas eu le temps de randonner au milieu des plantations. ...
Tea is for Tata
... disgustingly taken care of. Top Station is an hour away from Munnar - and though it is said to be beautiful. I think the views near Munnar are just as beautiful without being in the car for more than 2 hours. Buy your tea at the Tea Outlet for a good ...
Munnar
... to the waterfall, so we couldn't get too lost. In the afternoon we took a rickshaw out to some further points around Munnar. There were some spectacular views of the tea plantations and the mountains and we even saw some wild elephants. We managed to ...
Munnar, Tree house
Munnar - Sickness, English dude, Getting to tree house, tree house, next day's trek, making it back to Cochin, swish accomodation, boarding the train to ...
Mountains and Lakes
... our way, with all the schoolkids outside waiting for their rides to school, and they all wave and smile at us. At the outskirts of Munnar, we find the tourist center and try to book a plantation tour, but are told that they all left at 9:30. It is ...
mountains of tea and coffee
... with tea plants and people wandering around still harvesting the most delicate parts by hand. There isn't much to do in Munnar but stare at the beautiful countryside so to break things up Duncan and I rented a couple motorcycles one day and ...
Mar 17, 2013
Around and Around we go to Munnar
... in store for us for the drive to Munnar. . We left the craziness and pollution of Kochi and headed towards the mountains of Munnar. The air became a lot easier to breathe the further out we drove. Our driver gave us a lot of good information during the ...
Tea in Munnar
... . It was a beautiful place. After lunch, some of the ladies enjoyed an Ayurvedic massage while the boys enjoyed some shopping in Munnar. Many of us bought tea and spices. When we went to the Eravikulam National Park, we were disappointed to note ...
A Reason to Smile
... before the grand stone-washed dam. Tea trees blanketing lush mazes detailing photosynthetic synapses across rolling hills: Munnar's plantations, the commercial centre for some of the highest tea-growing estates constituting 23% of the ...
Day 19 - Munnar
After breakfast we drove to Munnar. It took about 4.5 hours to get to Munnar. We passed by many small towns. There were many big villas and so many churches. The driver said the Christian population in this area is 99%. The route to Munnar is very ...
All about dazzling Munnar in India
Munnar Munnar is Kerala's premium hill station. A hill station transcending excellence - Munnar is surrounded by gently undulating hills swathed in the soothing green of vast tea estates makes it perfect tourist destination in ...
munnar trip
ho i had a great time in munnar .i was very cold there we had a campfire the night before we left and ...
2nd Day
Second Day (04-Apr-2011) Woke up at around 7:15 AM, had a sumptuous breakfast and was ready for the 9AM sightseeing trip. We visited Madupatty Dam and then we went for shopping in a near by road side market ate fired corn and went on a speed boat ...
3rd Day
Third Day (05-Apr-2011) Visited Eravikulam Nature park to see some Wild Goats. Did not sight any but the trip was enjoyable.we were standing in a line to get to the counter where we had to buy tickets to go to the national park.but it was not worth ...
4th and Final Day in Munnar
Fourth Day (06-Apr-2011) Full rest. Woke up at 9AM, had breakfast, went to Munnar town for purchases (home made chocolates,etc.).then we started from Elysium and came to coimbatore and started for Chennai there we ate diner at the rail went to sleep.We ...
Munnar Day 1
... smells that accompanied us on our walk. The road from the spice gardens to Munnar got progressively steeper and windier. The views rivaled those I have seen on any South African or European mountain passes. ...