T&U Leisure Hotel Munnar
Mattupetty Road Munnar, Kerala, 68516, India
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Magnificent Munnar
... way we kept our eyes open for wild elephants and we were not disappointed.
We pulled over to the other side of the road and only 20 metres away from us were mama, sister and baby. They were wandering through a large bank of grass overlooking the large lake and were so graceful. Luckily we arrived just before a tour bus pulled over and managed to spend a few peaceful minutes watching them.
After a long drive ...
The Tetley Tea Plantation!
... ended and we began a more steep climb, traversing rocks, vegetation etc to the summit of the hill. There were some points where the climb took us close to the edge of steep drops which some of the girls (Fran included) in the group found a little scary.......obviously I manned up and took everything in my stride!
We reached the summit after about 3 hours, and by this time the clouds had rolled in so that you literally ...
Che Gryczka's Motorcycle Diaries
Folgendes habe ich in der Nacht nach meiner ersten Fahrt in mein Notizblock geschrieben:
Die Augen fallenr mir schon fast zu, aber ich muss schreiben. Vielleicht halten mich die Gedanken wach. Noch ist alles frisch, die Traenen nicht so fern, die Eindruecke unverarbeitet, ungewohnt, unverbraucht. Der Anfang des Tages interessiert laengst nicht mehr. Worueber ich morgens schreieben wollte erscheint laecherlich und doch hat alles einen Anfang, ...
Around and Around we go to Munnar
... on the joke.
Our moms also went for a walk and in the middle of our walk we saw them walking really fast in the distance towards us. When we met up with them they said in a matter of fact way “don’t go any further, there’s either a big dog or a monkey in the trees up ahead”. We decided to go investigate anyway, as we approached the area where they claimed to have seen it both mom’s said “don’t go further, it will ...
Off to the Tea Plantations!
So after settling in nicely in Kerela we did a touristy type trip to to see the tea plantations of Munnar!
This involved getting an allocated taxi driver for a couple of days (and paying for his lunches!!!) and he drives you to Munnar and around the region hitting all the hotspots.
So it takes 4 hours of him shouting place names loudly at us until we understand what he is saying through fairly tricky roads. Although ...



