Lovely Munnar For A Getaway

By Author: John Bruce
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Take a flight to Madurai in Tamil Nadu or to Cochin airport and drive up the Munnar hills in Kerala. You will soon leave your regular world behind and enter a different sphere full of mist, sweet air, murmuring breeze and peace.

Located in the hill ranges of Kerala 1600 m above the sea, where three mountain streams - Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala - come together, Munnar is a vision in green. Some of the highest teas estates in Kerala are ensconsced in Munnar, as the hills surrounding this scenic town are carpeted with tea bushes, spice plantations and greenery.

Munnar, a small hill town, offers the marvelous scenes of Sun coming up and going down. In the pre-dawn you could virtually walk among the clouds. It also gives opportunities to bike around or walk about and hold commune with the Nature. Full of varied birds, the winged friends strike up a symphony in the morn and in the eve and walking hand-in-hand you and your love will feel like on top of the world.

If you are a lover of tea, Munnar offers the fresh leaves off the garden in its backyard. The place has in its surroundings waterfalls, green-carpeted ...
... rolling hills, golf course and markets where you could go for a shopping of artifacts, spices and tea.

Echo Point
If you have a strain of adventure in you, never forget to leg it or motor down to Echo Point. Located 13 km from Munnar, Echo Point is a popular adventure tourism destination. Trekking and nature walks are popular activities in this scenic destination with beautiful views of the green hills.

The fresh mountain air, the mist-clad hills and breath-taking view of valleys make it worth your trouble. This scenic place gets its name from the natural echo it creates, much like in desert.

Mattupetty Lake and Dam is another place deserves your attention when you are in Munnar. Covered with motley of thickets, luscious tea plantations, and dotted with cascading waterfalls, Mattupetty is spectacular, to say the least. Besides, there is a popular Shola forests also near Mattupetty shelters. The forest serves as an intimate abode to variety of bird species and makes an interesting picnic spot for the visitors and tourists.

Munnar found Britishers' summer hideout. The place is so lovely that they used to come in hordes and spend summer months lost in the place's beauty. After the tea and spices estate came up, the place still retained its pre-eminent status. The Tata Tea guest house was the Englishmen's watering hole and its hall still adorns scores of caps they wore.Derby hats, hunting hats, driving caps and so on. Each tells a story of its owner.
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