Last weekend we we travelled to Munnar, town in the state Kerala in South India.
The main business is tea and everything turns around it.
When looking at the landscape the only thing one sees is tea tea tea plantations all over, it made the landscape really unreal and something never seen before.
Munnar town was not that special but we went on a tour around it to see the main tourism attractions.
There was for example a spice garden, where they had plants which closed their leaves when you touch them... We went to a tea museum where all the tea processing was explained and the
different ways to make tea. There was also a propaganda movie explaining that the tea company was the best company in the world and that it's employees were the best treated ever!!!! :)We saw a honeybee tree. There must have been a dozen colonies up in the tree and we were happy not to be too close to them.
There was an echo point where you got your echo back from the mountain 2 seconds later: impressive stuff!
Then finally on saturday we started the trek, the main reason we came to Munnar for.
The first day we walked 22 km and the second 33 km. We were really lucky with the weather and the sights were just amazing. No animals but the paths were good and we didn't see anybody on our way.
To get to Kodaikanal we had to take a bus for 45 km from our end point of our trek. It was the fullest bus i have ever seen in India. It was sooo full that when the driver went up a hill the bus was soooo heavy that the bus driver had to switch to first gear. It took us 3 hours to cover the distance.
Then from Kodaikanal a private bus to Chennai for another 12 hours....
Arrived dead tired and destroyed legs and sick in chennai having two exams this week and two next week: Going to be a lot of fun.
