Autumn Trees Munnar

... guesthouses next to each other, and we visited all three to finally get a room for 350 rupees in Green View Guesthouse, a nice little place with clean and tidy rooms and hot shower. They also organised treks and touristy stuff, but we weren't interested. The girls were next door, and they soon went out to check out the city, while we sorted our stuff out and had a shower. Outside, tea plantations came in as far as our road, and continued on in the hills surrounding thee town, and ...

... the heat of Cochin. It gave us the chance to do a couple of treks, the first a two hour walk through the local forest and plantations. The second was on Liz’s birthday and comprised of a six hour hike up to the top of one of Kerala’s highest peaks. It was steep from the moment we set off through tall elephant grass and unfortunately Ady had got bad sinuses and so our guide arranged for him to go back to the lodge – by motorbike. This was probably one of ...

... is 12 KM from Bodhi Zendo.<br> <br>About the Zen Master <br><br>Bodhi Zendo is run by the Zen master AMA Samy. He became a Jesuit priest at a young age. Since he did not find spiritual fulfilment from Christian spirituality, he started visiting Hindu ashrams and Buddhist meditation centres before going to Japan to learn Zen.<br> <br>He spends a few month of the year teaching abroad. I knew that he was not in India during the 1-4 October mini-Sesshin, but was ...

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... in the area. We found a place with paddle boats on a lake so we played around in those for a while and then went of a light walk around some plantations. Our guide told us there were wild elephants in the area and if we saw any to RUN because they were dangerous. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, we didn't see any. I have photos of Munnar, but they are on Kel's camera so I'll have to post them another day.

... to a local man we would need to wait until 15th January if we wanted a clear view! We visited the Matupetty Dam and a nearby lake on which we take a pedalo out. Lastly we visited Echo Point (no explantion needed) and Joel had a contest with some friendly Indian guys as to who could whistle loudest. We spent the evening in the company of a french couple (Jean Pierre and Helene), and a American-Chilean couple. It was a lot of fun even ...

Munnar is my top favorite place in the whole of India. It is fantastically lush, green, clean and beautiful. This is where the tea you drink every morning grows. I've never seen a land, or rather hills like this before in my life. The place is chilled and the people are super friendly and less spaced out. This is the first place I visit in Kerala, the ...

... Vale. The guide would offer us seeds of cardomonn (fills up your whole mouth with a sweet taste), bits of tree bark (gives cinamon) and leaves (of spearmint - who needs Extras to freshen the mouth). We were shown so many I cant rememebr - but an explosion of tastes, smells and mosquito bites (Doh - should have thought they would be there - but they havent been anywhere else around here in the mountains). A bit of a ...

... d*nce myself. It w*s very *crob*tic *nd *musing, but not ex*ctly my "scene", if you will. In * w*y, I like the f*ct th*t there's *n *bund*nce of blissful young folks who just live to d*nce *nd p*rty, but I h*d to l*ugh *s well...not in * me*n or critic*l w*y, but just bec*use it struck me *s so *bsurd to see *ll these kids just given'er *s h*rd *s they could for * be*ch p*rty in Gok*rn*. They sure g*ve the Indi*n tourists * thing or two to tell their friends *bout, with their sc ...

... local and quite amazing really. ALthough everything is hand made and well done, and beautiful and it's all so cheap. We all bought a sari of course! In the evening we had a crash course in how to wear a sari. It's not as easy as it looks. All the indian women - even the ones who work in the rice fields look so elegant and colourful. Yesterday afternoon, we visited the Manimathur waterfall expecting to be able to go underneath it. Unfortunately due to lots of rain in the last ...