Munnar
We are in Munnar, on a trip to see some of the beautiful countryside high in the ghats. This is the area that the British would escape to in the heat of summer, and is cool and even cold in the evening. Now Munnar has become a bustling town, but is still surrounded by forest, tea plantations and lots of streams, rivers and waterfalls. We arrived yesterday evening, and today went for a 20 kilometer hike through a tea plantation and down to Deviculam, another little village. It rained on and off, but the weather wasn’t really bad, and we had a good time- Sheva really enjoyed herself, and got very muddy! In Deviculam we found a tiny restaurant serving Iddli, a kind of rice dumpling with two kinds of sauce, one white and spicy with a coconut taste, and the other a curry vegetable sauce, and also fried lentil cakes, and had Chi, which is like English tea, AND rice pancakes ( dosa), for the grand sum of 50p for both of us!!! Then we walked back, stuffed full, and had a play with the remote control on the TV ( well, we haven’t seen one for quite a few months!). On the way we met the son of one of the workers on the plantation, who works in a hotel, and he explained all about the process of tea picking and drying. His mother earns 120 rupees per day, but the conditions are quite good since the family gets a house ( well, shack) and food, plus schooling with a school bus for the children. He works in a big hotel now, and earns less!
On the way back a motorcycle stopped, and a journalist asked if he could put a photo of Sheva, the tourist dog, in the paper tomorrow! We agreed, but Sheva didn’t really have much to say in the interview! We will get the paper tomorrow to see if she is really in. It is very rare to see people with dogs here, and she makes quite a stir wherever she goes, although the Hindus are fine about her, not like the Moslems.
Chasamba has been attacked by hackers, so the pictures are down- this is temporary and Anat and I will get it back to normal as soon as possible (thanks Anat!). I will put the latest pics of Munnar in now.
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