Monday 5 January 2015

Tea estate Holiday - Munnar - courtesy 5starwoods.











Destination was the tea estate bungalow  hidden inside a spacious 2000 acres of tea estate. Surrounded by seven mountains,  it has a small river flowing in the months of monsoon.


The BIG picture

Food: The Food  at the bungalow was too good to be true.  They had served a cabbage concoction, it was literally out of the world.  We had two servings. it was stomach full.

Side view

drawing room- picture perfect

dining room - awe inspiring

Does it need a caption?
One for the album
A view of the gardens
The bungalow
The entrance to get tranced!

smoke room - smoked out!
The garden is expansive
bed room - you will be bed ridden!






Tea estate Holidays - Megamalai












Thanx to 5starwoods.com for arranging our megamalai trip.  The road to meghamalai was less travelled...


the bungalow where we stayed..

a view of the waterbodies...




it is just the swiss of tamilnadu...

Tea Estate Holidays - Stanmore Estate, Valparai

I want the picture to do the talking...  I asked for valparai, they gave me stanmore!  what more you want?The route to valparai is quite scenic.  Thanx to 5starwoods.com for the arrangement
The Grand Entrance to Estate bungalow

The lovely patio of the bungalow


The koolangal river

The man made waterfalls...




The view of the sky from the estate


The road to sholyar dam is quite watery..

The view from my car

Ofcourse, the dining is most important

Nilgiri Tahr for posterity