High Range Club Munnar
Munnar, Kerala, 685612, India
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Perfecting the Indian head wobble in Munnar.
... even had to wear our fleeces in the evenings for the first time!
Once off the bus, we headed for food as we had skipped breakfast in the morning. We stumbled across a canteen-style eatery and got the impression that the owner was very pleased to have us in there! He gave us our own room to eat in and plyed us with papad's (poppodoms) and pickles etc, funnily enough this is the first time in India we have had poppodoms with all the trimmings like we have back home. We ...
2 Day tour in Munnar, elephants and tea !!
... we can head to the elephants and then decide if we want to go to Munnar – elephants are an 1.5 hour drive and Munnar is amother 3-4 after that. We had packed the bags so we thought fook it lets go to the elepahnts see how it goes – so we are driving along in the heaviest rain ever on roads of complete flooding it was like driving through a river – eventually as we reached the elephants the rain had stopped and the sky had brightened woo hoo – ...
Munnar Tour-Day 1
... 6 km from Munnar. This vantage point offers astounding views of breathtaking grandeur of the nearby tea, coffee and spice plantations. You can feast your eyes on the misty hills, green meadows and ravines crisscrossed with white streaks of gurgling rivulets.
Me,Shweta and Sia enjoyed the boat ride for one hour following by the little scoop of ice cream for baby Sia.
Finally, return to home with tired body and fresh mind. Day 1 ...
Synchronicity. Again
... of my beloved buses again, and go to Kumily. John has been the most amazing friend and guide during my stay, all the time looking out for me, all the time wheelin’ and dealin’ with his fellow locals so that I don’t get ripped off here and there, insisting to pay for things and refusing my money. And getting the best chai, lots of chai, I'm so chaied out in the end I'm shaking from all the tein.
It’s like he really wants to ...
The hills are alive, with the sound of Bollywood
... rucksacks, bodies and mainly the whopping great speakers.Tears of laughter ran down my face as I imagine what the tea
pickers think. They surely heard us coming a mile away.
As we weave our way up towards the plantation, eye popping scenery and impossibly
green fields the shape of squashed, manicured broccoli heads present
themselves. Its the most pleasurable assault on the eye you can imagine. I feel as
though I've stepped into a post-colonial literary ...


