A Honey Mooner’s paradise between tea gardens in God’s own country Kerala (India). A green heaven, virgin land, never touched with artificial things, away from heat and dust, hill station in Annamalai area of Kerala. World’s highest tea gardens (1600 meters above sea level) spread over so many kilometers like green carpet owned by Tata Tea of India. You can enjoy here with your girl/boy friend or family and pets the exotic aroma of this place, by visiting so many places, boating, seeing tea plantations, plucking tea leaves, their processing and packaging while walking through tea gardens and taste different varieties of fresh tea prepared before you.
History of the City
In the year 2000 Kerala Government declared Munnar a tourist spot. A British time summer resort and summer capitol in South India. Tea plantations started here around year 1890.
Location
A Hill station in India’s Southern state, Kerala’s Idukki district, by road 4 hours from Kochi / Ernakulam, 6 hours from Coimbtore and Madurai in Tamilnadu.
Best Season to visit: October to May
How to Reach There
Reachable by road from most of the towns of Kerala and Tamilnadu or by helicopter.
Popular Tourist Attractions
- Boating in Mattupatty lake and dam
- Kundale lake
- Echo Point
- Blossom garden
- Eraviculam wild life sanctuary
- Tea plantations
- Rajamalai
- Tea Museum
- Pothenmedu view point
- Nyamakadu waterfalls
- Devikulam
- Sita devi lake
- Power house water falls
- Anayirankal dam
- Anaimudu View, highest peak in south India, 2700 meters high from sea level
Accommodations in Munnar
- Renovated British bungalows, built in 1932, now owned by Tata group are available to tourists to stay here.
- Munnar woods
- Oak fields, Munnar
- T & U Resorts
- Club Mahindra
- Whispering Meadows
- Cloud 9 Munnar
- Black Berry Hills Munnar
- Royal Fort Munnar
- Tall Trees Munnar
