Hill View Munnar

... came, through the town and out the other side to try the 70 click round trip to the top station. About ten meters out of town it started raining, and we drove through the driving rain, past and over a dam at mattupetty and up and up past echo point, not stopping and past the second dam and up and into thicker clouds and up into some slippery, muddy old road full of potholes and puddles until we finally reached the top station. This was a little town full of restaurants and souvenir ...

... in the past (Peru) it proved to be to much! . Our first day we wondered around the hill side and found a random Hindu Temple that some local village women were only to happy to show us around. Later we bush whacked our way up a hill only to discover that we were on private property where the tea is actually packaged. The security guards could not ...

... short of breath walking up stairs!!!! anyway the road for half of the journey is like mad windy hills so steve and adam let people go up on the roof seats for most of the afternoon and i got to go up in the cab for an hour which was class, i love being able to see right out the front like that it was magic. anyway we got to ooty and everyone just kind of chilled out in the evening sun and it didnt really feel like christmas too much cos it was warm and ...

... m above sea level, its bracing climate with the laidback atmosphere and its delightfully refreshing colonial air makes it the most sought-after destinations. Munnar panchayat of Devikulam block is the largest in the district with an area of 557 km². The etymology of Munnar is believed to ...

From Alleppey I took a 1.5 hour morning train ride to the city of Cochin. The train ticket cost me a whopping 27 cents. I think the train tickets must be subsidized by the government, but I'm not sure. I was headed to Cochin to catch an Air Deccan flight the next day to Hyderabad, where my buddy who used to live in the US is now working. I didn't know much about Cochin other than a nice part of town to stay in was called Fort Cochin ...

... transportent des gros sacs de riz. On aperçoit les paysans dans les rizières. Le cadre est fabuleux ! Les gens semblent vivre modestement tout en étant très heureux. Nous passons 48h sur une petite pagode afin de s'imprégner de l'endroit et de sa tranquillité. Malheureusement, le déplacement en bateau est très court et nous ne pouvons faire que les canaux principaux donc les moins authentiques. Dommage. Par contre, le cuisinier du ...

... the boat carried people from all 6 inhabited continents. Several people, like the Iranian-Indian woman and the Guatemallan lady who has living in Kenya but visiting her sister who lived in India, even managed to earn some extra credit for representing more than one point on the globe. In this crowd we were definitely the boring ones. The first thing we noticed about the Kerala backwaters was that it is positively dense. This subtropical ecosystem in Southwestern India supports ...

... and getting into this music. I'm flashing my headlamp to simulate a strobe light and Ophrir's sat up front with the geezer getting some VT footage of the madness. And the guy steps up to the mark and starts flashing his cab light on and off and moshing to his tunes!! You just can't buy **** like this. What a day. Anyway we're off to Cochin in the morning to get a flight to Mumbai and see what curve ball this country's gonna throw at us next.

Cochin was the first colonial outpost in India, built by the Portuguese, later ceded to the Dutch, then ceded again to the British and finally became part of the Indian Union when the British left India. The main tourist attraction is the area of Fort Kochi, the old colonial fort originally built by the Portuguese. Fort Kochi has a rich history which is reflected in the myriad of old buildings around, but the Santa Cruz Basilica is the ...