West Wood Hotel Munnar
Munnar Munnar, Kerala, 685612, India
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Magnificent Munnar
... an important and by now vwey necessary source of fuel. In 1924 they experienced horrendous floods which destroyed all the infrastructure that had been in place up until that time.
Afterwards the local people proved resilient and by 1940 had built their first hydro electric dam. After independence India decreed that all companies must be at least 60% Indian owned and as a result an employee buyout took place, now 97% of ...
47 hour train - Kochi to Deli - video blog !!
... turns out we were 2 giant white people with huge backpacks sweating ridiculously running about 5 carridges to get to ours – they hurry is they limited bag space and we wanted to make sure our packs were under the seat and chained up – god forbid we would have to lie with it on our bed !! Anyway task done chained up sweating ridiculously but good to go – here is our wee video blog we did on the progress of our 47 hours - gave us something to do hehe
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Che Gryczka's Motorcycle Diaries
... 2 Stunden Fahrt in die Berge. Traumhafte Landschaft, gute Strassen, relativ wenig Verkehr.... Was ein Spass!! Dafuer also der ganze Stress mit dem Motorrad! Genau dafuer! Nachdem ich dann irgendwann von nem kleinen Bergregen ueberrascht wurde und gluecklicherweise in nem nett aussehendem Lokal Rast machen konnte, kam kurz vor Munnar die Frage in mir auf. Abbiegen oder nicht? Irgendwie doof einfach in dem Heim aufzukreuzen ohne vorher ne Mail ...
Home Made Chocos and the Top Station
... were so high up on the hill in Tamil Nadu but the valley was covered in the blanket of mist and fog hence we didn't see much :o( It was a good exercise to walk up and down.
In the evening we sat on the balcony with a French Canadian couple who were playing on a guitar and bass. The guy composed songs as the pair travelled around... they were very good. Later on another French guy "Nikola" joined us on the balcony... he said ...
Off to the Tea Plantations!
... corn on cob from a local and we survived !! Hurrah!
Finally after lunch in what was the equivelent of an India backwater Little Chef we hit a wildlife sanctuary to see an endangered goat! The sign as we walked it you will see says that 'animal sightsing are purely by chance and refunds will not be given'. This goat must be really rare and as we ascended up the mountain in park ranger buses..stilll driving proper Indian ...



