West Wood Hotel Munnar

... the scenery. While Munnar itself is sucky, the beauty behind it is in the countryside amongst the endless rolling tea plantations and waterfalls. I get overcharged and walk back into town. So far this is my first bad day in India in the last 3.5 weeks here. I decide to shag ass outta Munnar and head back to the coast to Kochin, an old colonial fortress. I check the trains and hardly surprised I find that the only way out of Munnar is by taxi. At this point I no longer care and go.

... 2.00pm.

We just thought of dropping to Kadamparai power project although we don’t have the approval just to give a try as heard the architect was really marvelous and the canal is a must visit place, but our car petrol tank was showing down arrow and we don’t have bunks in that route. We gave up again and started towards Aliyur to fill petrol then Topslip. We reached sethumadai check post @ 4pm (the downhill of topslip) The forest officers were not suggesting ...

... and then we head back on our separate roads. We walk down round the lake, I try a public convenience which I run out of immediately, leaving me pale and shocked, determined never to speak of the horrors of which I have witnessed. Dan and I mooch and watch all the Indian tourists look at all the tutt stalls selling bindis and glittery outfits and chocolate. There are queues for the peddleos. As a cultural reference, we suspect it may be Blackpool

... arrived into old Munnar, a large collection of shops and houses of the locals, where everything could be found from tailors to fresh fruit markets to mobile phone stores and home made chocolate, and Jon and I wandered the streets aimlessly for a few hours, though there was not a few hours worth of entertainment to be found. There was traffic and beeping and a hundred rickshaws wanting to take you on a sightseeing tour of the area, to waterfalls and sandalwood forests and the top ...

... pretty cloudy, still beautiful though. Mia got us to go walking around the tea plantations for an hour. We saw lots of elephant droppings, but fortunately no elephants because apparently the wild ones are not so friendly. We went for tea and homemade marshmellows later, pretty good! Next morning, we woke up at 5am to catch a 6:20am bus to Alleppey on the coast. It was a pretty pleasant ride through palm-tree towns :)

... cultivation. The scenery on the way to Kumily is spectacular. Roads wind higher and higher through green hills, tea plantations, rubber trees and finally spice gardens as we enter the small town of Kumily. The air cools pleasantly and is pungent with the smells of cardamon, cloves, mint and just about every spice you can think of. We didn't rate the place itself - it's a North Indian holiday and the its manic but we enjoy a fantastic spice garden and tea plantation ...

... people living there full time, *nd countless thous*nds of devotees going there d*ily. And Amm* hugs everyone. I got * hug, though it w*s * bit dis*ppointing bec*use I felt like * sm*ll *nim*l in * gre*t herd, *nd the people org*nizing the d*rsh*n were re*lly surly *nd stressed. But it w*s interesting to see the pl*ce, *nd to le*rn *ll *bout Amm*'s m*ny hum*nit*ri*n projects. It's so milit*ristic, *nd it h*s to be bec*use of the sheer number of people th*t h*ve to be fed *nd housed ...

... chai, and Eugene gave me the time of 1 pm the next day to come back for the repairs. It was growing late, and I needed to look for accomodation. I came to many places, and most of them wanted too much money, and wouldn't come down in price, so finally, driving back through New Munnar section, I saw "hotel krishna," and decided to check rates. The sign said 100 for a single, but when the man came down, he said that all the singles were taken, and there were only doubles with ...

... had arrived at the same time, Ophrir and Karen. On Sunday we went on an organised trip which the 'cute' Joseph had sold us. The taxi picked us up at 8.30 and after breakfast we started driving out towards the border with Tamil Nadu; the state next door to Kerala. To cut a long story short we had been slightly misled by our friendly ******ety old Guesthouse owner and were being taken in the wrong direction. Anyway we sorted it out with a little ...

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