Author: tjiskavw

If not chopped every five years, these tea bushes grow tall as trees. So among the green fields there are also patches of brown where the field recently got a…

A lot of the land in Munnar is also used for farming and it not uncommon to see someone on the road side selling fresh produce from their farm. I…

in downtown Munnar there's this unbelievable vegetable market in a big building which is really just a a maze of alleys running through stalls of beautiful, fresh vegetables. Truly fabulous…

you must purchase tickets to enter and they limit the number of people who can visit each day to avoid congestion on the narrow dirt roads. Wise move.

The homes on the hills of Munnar are all painted these wonderful distinctive colors. I asked my guide if the colors represented a particular affiliation of some sort and he…

Munnar has plenty of water and damns for irrigation of tea plantations. They are absolutely stunning...if you look past the litter. One thing I could not get over was the…

from on high, the agricultural valleys of Munnar look like a living patchwork quilt

Kochi became the first European colony in India when the Portuguese developed it as a harbor in the 1500's - the Dutch assumed control in the 1600's and later swapped…

these fisherman are real characters - this guy is showing off what has to be the biggest shrimp I've ever seen. Most of this daily catch gets sold to local…

here's what a stall looks like. After all the fish is sold, the fisherman hang out with each other at these makeshift coffee spots to swap tales about the one…