Guest House in Munnar

... treats. He then brought in a full fish for Chris but he declined!    After our feed, we went to search for a guest house which proved more difficult than we had thought. The place we originally wanted to stay was full and many others we looked ...

... beautiful as you go from the plains up into the Western Ghats, and it was beautiful.  We stayed at a guest house in Old Munnar which stood on its own surrounded by forest and tea plantations and the views were spectacular.  The views were ...

... by nothing but tea plantations.  It feels a little bit like the Sound of Music.  Kel and I found a really great little guest house to stay in while we were there.  Simple, with only an outhouse, but it was clean, cheap and the people were ...

Tea feilds.  We had to bus for many hours from the coast up to this beautiful mountain area.  We stayed in a sort of guest house with a very nice man and his family (though we didn't say much, because we didn't speak each others' language, we ...

... of us started to climb on the hairpin bends. We read that to cross 40 hairpin bends to reach Valparai, but very fortunately our guest house (waterfall estate) is placed between 28th and 29th hairpin bend. We took deep breath when we pull the car in those ...

... done thing to strip off, so I had a chilly ride home with wet clothes but it was worth it. We had a river just by our guest house which was great for eveing walks.  One evening we saw a huge owl, think it may have been an eagle owl.  No ...

... ideal, and the rain was pelting down (sodden bag again, not as bad this time but most my clothes are wet again). The guest house, J.J Cottage, was lovely (although our room was freeeezing!) so we made a mess of the room as usual (laying all my clothes ...

... ;        The next day would highlight out great choice, waking up to mountains surrounding our guest house which were more numerous then smurfs and greener then the friendly giant we were in the thick of tea country with ...

... the temp has cooled down into the 80s. There are occasional rains, but nothing sustained. The result is a misty mountain experience. The guest house is located at above 5000 ft elevation. Barb and I are enjoying the place. We are alone here most of the ...

... in buses or on the streets. Language: Tamil and Malayalam.  English is spoken or at least understood by most shopkeepers and guest house managers.  It is not that people do not know English, just that they have little practice with the spoken ...

        We had now settled comfortably in our guest house.  The Nepali night watchman instantly recognized us from the previous year and was only too happy to find someone he could converse with in ...

... instantly recognised us from our previous visit and greeted us warmly.  This time too, we preferred to stay at their guest house away from the main road, with great views of the Nadumalai estate and the Grass Hills. Bidding Jagdeesan goodbye for a ...

... I've just booked into. I spent the first night in a fairly rubbish budget place, but this morning I moved into the Government Guest House just down the road. It's only a little more expensive, but a world away in just about every relevant respect. ...

Took an overnight train from Madurai to Ernakulum which arrived 4am then an early bus to Munnar. Munnar is a hill station surrounded by spice trees and plants and of course tea !  Cooler here but still good, Robert is treking at the moment so better ...

... with tea plants and people wandering around still harvesting the most delicate parts by hand.  There isn't much to do in Munnar but stare at the beautiful countryside so to break things up Duncan and I rented a couple motorcycles one day and ...