Tea Estate country.

Trip Start Sep 21, 2006

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Flag of India Munnar, India
Friday, February 16, 2007

Munnar rimes with Tea. This is where most of the Indian Tea is grown and processed. Located along side the Western Ghats, a mountain ridge that follows the North-South axis in southern India, Munnar has the perfect climate for Tea to grow. The mountains are covered by a giant green blanket made of tea plantations. It makes for the most beautiful landscape I have seen in India. It's a rural area so there's not much pollution and it's much quieter than in the cities along the coast.

Many roads were under construction and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how everything is done manually. There is no machinery involved whatsoever. Men and women work along side with sledge hammers and shovels. Quite impressive, especially the sight of a women breaking rocks with a sledge hammer.

Getting to Munnar is a little bit of a hassle though, because of the poor quality of the road. No train goes up the mountains so you have to take a bus. The beautiful landscape makes up for it but the 6 hour ride from Kovalam seemed to last forever.

Andre.

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Infant Jesus Radiator Works Comments!	Inside a tea plantation.	Man beaking rocks manually for the road fondation	More tea covered mountains.
No space is lost.	School kids in recess in Munnar.	Tea Leafs up close.	The mountains are covered by a green blanket.
The tea plantations cover entire mountains	Trucks are very colorful in Kerala.	Waterfall in the background.	Women work as hard as men, often times harder. Comments!