Blackberry Hills Mountain Eco Lodges Munnar

... our right was a slowly rolling river, reflecting the towering eucalyptus trees pleasantly. <br>We went to check out the town, walking up the muddy road for about a kilometre, rickshaws and buses beeping at us to get off the road, when there was only the road, or the muddy (I suppose you could call it a) pathway) next to it. There were tea and souvenir shops to our right, and the cows quietly rested in the middle of the road, in what would have been the shade of the thick canopied ...

... highlights as he went pillion for the first time. Indian style of course with no helmets, it&#8217;s funny the things you allow abroad, although it was only for mile down a country road and we had given the driver a full brief on driving at only 10mph. This was just before he wheelied down the road with no hands on the handlebars and broadsided round the first bend!<br><br>The climb was at times a real steep scramble and pretty challenging, but on reaching the peak we felt ...

... to meet him when I visit again for the full Sesshin.<br> <br>My travel diary <br><br>I am reproducing extracts from the notes I made in my travel diary.<br> <br>01 October 2009, Thursday, 6:30 PM <br><br>After a 45 minutes delay, my flight landed at Coimbatore at 10:10 AM instead of 09:25 AM. The driver from Kannan tours was waiting with my name on a placard. It is a little more that a four hours drive to Bodhi Zendo. You drive south on the highway NH 209 which ...

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The 4 hour bus ride from Cochin developed into a 6 hour journey as we headed east in a rickety bus into the mountainous region of the Western Ghats. I was moving with Asa, Laura &amp; Jay, some good girls that I met on the bus. Due to the temperature difference at the higher altitude we drove into a beast of a storm, with heavy thunder &amp; lightening that eventually struck a ...

... the food was the blandest yet! DAY 3 On the last day we visit the tea museum in Munnar and saw a short film about the history of the area and of the company which seems to be very philanthropic (social provision for employees and their families) and forward thinking e.g. tailoured education and employ,ent for children of employees who have learning disabilities). We then saw the tea - producing process before driving back to Fort Kochi.

... with the highest educational rate in the developing world - 92%. You can tell the difference right away. I had my first scooter ride and I'm hooked on these things. I'm definitely getting one of those when I get back to London. I also got up at 5:30am and went for a hike to the highest peak in the area - a meager 2,695m, but a steep hike, which (I ...

... later and we arrived at the tea factory and plantations. Now heres the mad thing - it was called Canemara Tea. Here we were in the depths of South India and there was tea named after where some of its biggest drinkers were. Later find out that the tea here was not for export - it was only for indians (they drink alot of it!) and its more of a power form like instant coffee. the name appartently comes from the original owner ...

... it was too strong so we couldn't. It was very picturesque and hilly as we were in the foothills of the Western Ghats. There was a down side to it though. The waterfall area is also home to hundreds of macaque monkeys. Here they are considered vermin and now i know why! They are very precocious and will try and steal your bag. In fact they freaked me out a bit and i was glad to get back on the bus! They are a nusiance on the campus too. One came into the kitchen the other ...