Windermere Estate Munnar

... once every 7 days. It must be constant work for hundreds and thousands of workers, as the tea surrounded us as far as we could ride our scooter and then some. <br>The British established the tea plantations in the early 1800, and since then people from Tamil Nadu came up to provide a workforce and being a very remote location, they have built ropeway systems to get food up to the mountains and mini railways and phone systems and the tea just grew, providing a steady income every 7 ...

... How they managed to climb and pick on the practically vertical slopes is a mystery to me.<br><br>We took advantage of Olive Brook where we were staying to have a truly relaxing time out of the heat and invested a day of schooling as there was lots of room and good desks for the kids to work at.<br><br>After three glorious nights we took the bus back down to Cochin, picked up the shoes that Isobel had left under the bed, and then went to the station to catch the train further south.

... Buses and Taxis are available from Madurai. Madurai is also the closest airport. The other nearest airport is Coimbatore, which is 175 KM away. From Mumbai there is no direct flight to Madurai, but there are direct flights to Coimbatore. Thus it is cheaper to fly to Coimbatore. I flew to Coimbatore and took a taxi from there.<br> <br>If you are travelling my train then the nearest station is Kodai Road which is 80 KM away.<br> <br>The Kodaikanal hill station ...

Alas the journey was better than the destination. Munnar moaned and I moaned in Munnar. With sore feet, a killing head cold, a cold shower and an unlock-able door I burst into tears arriving here overwhelmed and exhausted but knocks at the door offering buckets of hot water and Chai soon woke me up and I explored the best Munnar had to offer- good chai, homemade chocolate and marshmallow's or even chocolate marshmallows and an eat as much as ...

... i had a chance to crack out the layers, alapaca jumper and retro style, BMX bandit, brown leather fingerless gloves and we found the refreshing, pure air was a welcome relief after the hot lowlands. Nice opportunity to rid myself of the respiratory infection i got from being in the polluted cities and maybe from smoking too much. Every morning in your paper thin walled hotel rooms or just on the street across India you can hear all the Indians doing the big whooping cough ...

... tin can ever, with no glass at the windows most people pull the black canvas down to give them some protection but we thought we would hack it! The journey, although we had numb bum's from sitting on metal seats and were being thrown all over on the bumpy mountain passes through national parks, was amazing! We usually had our eyes closed on the bends as the driver took them at great speed and it didn't look like we'd get ...

... very high. I actually had quite a good sleep, rising early to go into the bazaar to look around and have a dosa. No dosa at the dhaba (called a "hotel, really a restaurant, so don't be confused if you come here) but he did do me a nice Puri Baji, a sort of masala breakfast. Also I must mention the COFFEE!! here, it is locally grown and brewed. Holy ****, that coffee was the best I have had in months. . . Near the "hotel" and underneath the lodge was an automotive parts place. I ...

... den Arbeitspausen gab es dann frisches Wasser oder Kokosnußmilch und zum Teil recht witzig anmutende Verständigungsversuche mit Händen und Füßen zwischen unseren Schülern und den jeweiligen Dorfbewohnern. Nachmittags war dann Sightseeing und Erholung angesagt. Gleich am ersten Tag sind wir in das ca. 30 km von Nagercoil entfernte Kanyakumari gefahren und haben dort die Südspitze Indiens besucht, an der drei Meere aufeinandertreffen: die Bucht von Bengalen, der Indische Ozean sowie das ...