Munnar, India Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

MUNNAR , 130km east of Kochi and four-and-a-half hours by bus north of Periyar, is the centre of Kerala's principal tea growing region. Although billed as a "hill station", it is less a Raj-style resort than a scruffy settlement of corrugated iron-roofed cottages and factories, surrounded by vast swathes of rolling green tea plantations . All the same, it's easy to see why the pioneering Scottish planters who first developed this hidden valley in the 1900s felt so at home here. At an altitude of around 1600m, the town enjoys a refreshing climate, with crisp winter mornings and relentlessly … more »