The high ranges keep their best things close together.
Where water meets the mountains.
An earthen dam built in the 1960s on the Panniyar river, held between tea estate and evergreen forest. Boating on the reservoir, and elephants that come down to the water — the name means exactly that.
Sunrise from the highest tea estate in the world.
At roughly 2,160 metres, reachable only by hired jeep along a rough track. People go for the sunrise, above the cloud line, and it is worth the ride up.
A fall down a steep rock face near Chinnakanal.
On the Munnar–Thekkady road, a short stop rather than a day out. Best in and just after the monsoon.
The viewpoint that opens onto the Idukki valleys.
A gap in the ridge on the road up from the plains, and the first place the whole valley shows itself at once.
The hill town, and everything around it.
Tea museums, plantation drives and the road up to Top Station. Far enough to be a day out, close enough to be an easy one.
