Chandana Herbal Palace
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The Tetley Tea Plantation!
... roads through the rolling hills driving at breakneck speed was the order of the day....but you have to have full confidence in the Indian way of driving right? Well we did until we saw an up-turned lorry carrying huge logs off the road and in the ditch about halfway into the journey - cue a little bit of worrying! We made it safely though with no real dramas. (Interestingly, there were many "Margin Free Markets" along the ...
2 Day tour in Munnar, elephants and tea !!
This is a top pick!
... a great feed then chilled out and slept like babies, next moring was meant to be more sightseeing but we had our train to Delhi to catch so we had a huge pancake breakfast cooked for us and headed off – the drive down was not too bad, Marc still making his noises but before long we were back in the hot sticky weather and dropped off at the train station………next stop Delhi.
Tour cost - £30 each including all food and room
Coconuts and Rubies
... Indigo and Khyber are quite swanky places, and unlike some of the places in Kerala all serve alcohol. I noticed in Khyber that some of the food seemed to be made milder because I was a Westerner. I'd actually deliberately tried dishes I eat at Indians in the UK, and the versions here were milder ! I think you need to ensure this doesn't happen, ask for "spicy"
Indigo was my favourite of the 3 - the fusion element being that my Chicken main dish had ...
Synchronicity. Again
... as John. He’s a trekking guide from Munnar and has his bike further down the road, and as a thank you he offers us a chai at a small mountain roadside chai shop. So we talk about this and that and I mention I’ve been to Tiruvannamalai a few days ago. "Tiruvannamalai!", he exclaims. “My very good friend Michal is in Tiru". “Michal!!”, I in turn exclaim. Michal’s the one who recommended Munnar to me and Raju and also the one ...
Kerala / Western Ghats / Tamil Nadu
... of hairpin bends were bad before, this return journey set the bar…with zero suspension, almost bench-like seats and locals being sick out of the window in front of us, this method of transport almost in a category of its own was highly amusing, but a struggle. Both suffering from dehydration and mild heat exhaustion after our grueling midday sun trek, a lengthy unscheduled stop after a jeep drove into the back of the bus was all we ...
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