India

This is called Eco Point and considered one of the top station view points. From here, the world around you feels like an ocean of green hills blanketed with dark…

Munnar's mountains are covered with tea estates and so high you can walk among the clouds.

India is the 2nd largest tea producer in the world after China and the Munnar tea plantations in Kerala is its major producing center.

and the land rolls out like a lush green carpet. Lots of waterfalls tucked in here and there as well. September is supposedly best time to visit because after the…

I was told that all of these estates are owned by the government and just sectioned out by name to be managed by villages.

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…