Shamrock Munnar
Munnar, Kerala, India
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Magnificent Munnar
... stall. We quickly joined him and had possibly the best cup of tea in our lives. It was masala tea made with hot milk and sugar and served in a glass. Once it had cooled enough for us to hold the glass it tasted amazing – if we keep going on like this we’re not going to have any teeth left when we leave India! We also indulged and tried a vada, a delicious spicy lentil savoury donut, delicious.
Our ...
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 ...
Coconuts and Rubies
... was undoubtedly at Malabar Junction, the restaurant at the Malabar House Hotel. Here they have a wine bar serving Indian Wine and Tapas, as well as an excellent restuarant with a great menu including two degustation (tasting) menus. I tried the 6 course Keralan degustation menu. This was creative cooking of the highest order, recognisbaly Keralan but probably a million miles from anything most Keralans ever eat. In the patio of the hotel accompanied by ...
Around and Around we go to Munnar
... are very narrow and we often had to pull to the side to let oncoming traffic get by. People do not drive up the mountain past 5:00 pm due to poor visibility (lots of fog) and the narrowness of the roads. Once we actually got to the town of Munnar we were pretty excited thinking we had made it. The driver told us our hotel was an hour away still! We didn’t think we would make it, we had already been driving for about 4 hours and we were all looking a ...
Weekend in Munnar
... re from and what our mothers are called and then promptly followed the script with "you give me money?" Very sad.
At dinner (which was quite pleasant despite the smell during preparation when Aimee exclaimed "it smells like a pet store!") we met a French couple who had come for the trekking and Nick and Carole, a very bubbly couple from Exmouth. They run a few businesses in Exmouth called Channel View and take the winters off to travel. The ...



