It took us 5 hours to get here from Kochi, changing buses twice. Once we arrived we had a walk around the town which isn’t very nice – you come here for the tea plantations. We went to a cafe called ‘taste the brews’ where we got a selection of tasters. Five of them were black tea and the other five were milky tea. The flavours were strange but some were really nice! Some of the flavours were; Cardamom Honey, Vanilla, Ginger, Cinnamon, Masala and Whole spice. We didn’t do much else on this day apart from go out for some food in the evening, where Jonho didn’t realise he picked a spicy curry and had to order 2 liters of water to wash it down!
The next day, we got up early (6am) to start our full day trek around the tea plantations. We started by going to the top of a mountain where we had a view of the plantations and had breakfast up there. Then we made our way down through the tea plantations and through a forrest where there was different spices growing so our guide picked certain ones and let us taste them/smell them. As we were walking through the villages, the locals wanted to talk to us and have photos taken with us. The hike was 18km in total and at the end we went for lunch at a cottage before the jeep came to pick us up and took us back to the hotel.
The next day, we had some time before our bus at half past four so we decided to hire a tuk tuk for four hours in the morning. The driver took us to two lakes, a dam, an elephant camp where you could ride elephants (we didn’t ride them) and up to the ‘top station which is basically the top of the hills and was a really good view. We stopped off at each place and took photos/ had a walk around and then headed back down to the hotel. On the way back we saw a monkey just chilling by the side of the road, lots of cows which is becoming normal now and then we saw some wild elephants in the forrest which neither of us have seen before so we’re really happy! We had lunch and then chilled out before our bus.
Kerry and Jonho's Travels 