After much deliberation together with planning nosotros decided to locomote to Kerala, God's ain province for the Monsoon Road trip.
DAY 1 : Bangalore to Namakkal We started belatedly from Bangalore on my friend's Scorpio together with drove towards Namakkal, a pocket-size town inwards Tamil Nadu. Dead at black nosotros got a skillful bargain at a hotel called 'Sanu International' .
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| The Trip Route |
DAY 2: Namakkal to Kumily together with Gavi  |
| Namakkal Fort |
The room provided a wonderful sentiment of Namakkal fort early on morning.
Getting refreshed nosotros started early on together with drove on to 1 of the best highways I receive got driven thence far.
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| Namakkal to Kumily |
This route exactly merges amongst the mountains.
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| Paddy Fields of Tamil Nadu |
The beautiful countryside of Tamil Nadu.
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| Country road |
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wonderful refreshing view. The heaven was surprisingly clear but the greenery all closed to was amazing.
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| Suruli Water falls |
Before reaching Kumily nosotros decided to receive got a detour to a waterfalls called Suruli Waterfalls. However the detour was of no role because entry to the falls expanse was barred.
However the route was awesome.
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| Kerala |
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| The fields of Tamil Nadu together with Kerala |
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| Paddy fields on the route |
When nosotros stopped , nosotros could experience the air current together with the beat that it generated inwards the paddy fields all closed to us.
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| Western Ghats together with the fields |
The mountains together with the grasslands all offered an exquisite view.
The highway twisted together with turned. We came across large kokosnoot plantations, grape vine plantations together with dandy mountains inwards the dorsum ground.
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| Grape vines |
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| Plantations on the way |
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| Wonderful mountains |
Finally the mount route started together with nosotros gradually climbed towards Kumily.
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| Entering Kerala |
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| Kumily |
We finally reached Kumily at luncheon time. We had a wonderful luncheon at a hotel called Seaworld. Then nosotros lazed off to the Periyar Lake. It was belatedly afternoon together with boating was closed because of a holiday. We enjoyed the silence of the lake.
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| Periyar Lake |
We also enjoyed a few wild blank monkeys. These were much ameliorate than the pocket-size monkeys which were snatching nutrient from the tourists.
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| A Black Monkey |
There is a dainty eco tourism store where 1 tin purchase dainty t-shirts, jackets, caps etc perfect blend colors for wild fauna visits.
They also sold mementos , beloved are other exquisite items. I ended upward spending a lot of fourth dimension here.
Since at that topographic point was even thence some fourth dimension to kill nosotros decided to endeavor out the Gavi road. However nosotros had no clue that it is business office of the Periyar Tiger Reserve together with require permission to become inside.
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| Tea Gardens |
The route to Gavi was excellent together with nosotros were expecting to drive through the jungle.
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| Numerous pocket-size streams of H2O together with beautiful scenery |
We passed picturesque areas till nosotros were stopped at the entry gate together with informed that it was closed for the day.
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| The Periyar Tiger Reserve |
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| Checkpost |
The adjacent business office of the hateful solar daytime was a chip weird. We were extremely lucky to honour a dainty cosy house to rest inwards Gavi Gate. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lady showed us the room together with at that topographic point was a eatery correct at the front end of it. They provided us some superb nutrient for the night.
It was indeed a mutual frigidity black together with afterwards a really long hateful solar daytime together with some dandy nutrient , I don't know what happened at night.
DAY 3: Periyar Tiger Reserve Safari. Gavi to Kochi The gentleman at the residence where nosotros stayed woke us upward early on morning. We rushed to the depository fiscal establishment agree transportation service 1 time again because the safari fourth dimension was 6:30 AM. Initially at that topographic point was some confusion virtually minimum divulge of members of a omnibus safari , which I did non empathize because at that topographic point were quite a few inwards the omnibus already. But finally amongst a ticket of Rs 300 per caput nosotros boarded the bus.
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| Elephants seen on jungle safari |
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| A Tusker |
Then earlier I could wake upward properly nosotros saw the beautiful beasts. I had to zoom a chip to capture the elephants together with 1 of them seemed to live on a infant tusker.
The Gavi Road is genuinely really narrow together with the omnibus was genuinely really noisy together with without stupor absorbers, thence most my pictures were pretty hazy.
Its genuinely a skillful affair to produce a hateful solar daytime long Jeep Safari ( Rs 1000 per head) which gives much to a greater extent than flexibility.
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| Beautiful jungle |
At a dainty sentiment betoken nosotros finally managed to receive got a grouping photo. Then nosotros moved on.
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| A sentiment point |
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| More jungle roads |
There was a brusque trek mid agency to give a glimpse of the famous Sabrimala Temple. Unfortunately I did non receive got sufficient telephoto or broad angle lens to capture the beauty of the spot.
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| The Sabrimala Temple far away |
The safari ended amongst some tea together with snacks somewhere inwards Gavi. We went dorsum to our hotel, freshened up, had breakfast together with left for Kochi.
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| The Gavi Gate restaurant |
This house is completely no-frills , but a really calm, construct clean together with dainty place. Also , they require a novel banner. The appam was nice.
Immediately afterwards Gavi nosotros decided to purchase some spices.Then nosotros drove through 1 of the most beautiful places on populace - God's ain province - Idukki district.
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| Winding routes through tea gardens |
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| Beautiful valleys |
We crossed beautiful tea plantations, thousands together with thousands of acres of misty mountains.
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| More tea gardens |
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| Every tea garden is beautiful |
The greenery all closed to mesmerized us. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pocket-size grouping of teenagers were playing football game on 1 of the most beautiful grounds that I receive got always seen.
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| Football beside the tea gardens |
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| A pocket-size draw solid together with a pocket-size waterfall. An ideal house to stay. |
Perhaps 1 of them has a household unit of measurement that stays beside this pocket-size waterfall. Truly, nature has a agency of providing things that coin cannot exactly buy.
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| Tea garden workers. |
Picking tea leaves inwards a tea garden. An amazing environs of work.
We decided to common our vehicle together with soak ourselves inwards the prosperity of nature.
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| A dainty view |
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| Ranges of dissimilar shades of green |
The dissimilar shades of light-green together with the monsoon clouds would capture a poet's imagination.
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| Rains through the car |
The rains came fast together with quick inwards these areas. We drove off.
We reached a spot where it was fourth dimension for lunch.
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| The huge mountains |
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| The river |
Hotel lakewood together with the beautiful Periyar river flowing inwards front end of it. We had some ordinary biriyani , it was already four PM together with quite belatedly for lunch.
We managed to attain Kochi exactly earlier Dinner fourth dimension afterwards driving through some crazy traffic. Crossing the principal urban core together with the isle of Weldington nosotros reached Fort Kochi. We made some staying arrangements at a house called 'Rossitta' . It was a dainty traditional sort of house amongst wooden floors together with a dainty balcony.
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| A hotel inwards Kochi |
DAY 4: Kochi to Bangalore via Athirapally together with Valparai
We began the hateful solar daytime lazily (that was a mistake). After a lazy stroll closed to Fort Kochi watching the Chinese angling nets, nosotros had some pretty ordinary breakfast at an extraordinary price.
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| Chinese Fishing Nets |
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| A large ship |
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| Lots of fish |
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of fresh fish at really decent prices too. Very bad that nosotros did non receive got provisions to acquit raw fish.
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| Banana Chips together with Jackfruit chips |
On the agency out from Kochi nosotros stopped at a house to purchase some famous banana chips. You tin brand out from the size of the Kadai (cooking vessel) the quantity of chips going for direct pocket-size fry inwards unmarried slot.
After leaving the urban core behind nosotros drove direct towards Athirapally Waterfalls.
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| Road to Athirapally |
This is an amazingly dainty route to drive amongst huge plantations together with wood regions.
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| Forest Flower |
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| The Grameen initiative |
We stopped at a Grameen middle (Village run center) to receive got a pocket-size repast amongst fish fry.
Then nosotros reached Athirapally Waterfalls. It was horribly crowded , but nosotros managed to larn some dainty views.
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| Athirapally from the top |
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| Another sentiment of Athirapally |
Then nosotros decided to brand a brusque trek to the base of operations of the waterfalls.
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| Athirapally from the base |
This was the alone photograph that I managed to receive got without the crowd of swarming people.
Then I heeded some advice of the Kerala Forest Department.
"When the in conclusion tree is cutting together with the in conclusion river is poisoned human being volition realize he can't swallow his money"
We decided to movement on every bit it was getting late. It was already v PM together with nosotros were non fifty-fifty through the sight seeing spots.
After crossing a checkpost nosotros entered 1 of the most desolate forests of Kerala. This stretch nosotros genuinely stretched ourselves to overcome.
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| The danger route |
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| Streams |
We crossed numerous pocket-size streams similar this. The jungle path was littered amongst signs of elephant crossings together with nosotros witnessed elephant dung at several places.
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| Reservoir |
We crossed some other reservoir on the way.
Soon it was black together with pretty impossible to receive got a photo. But thence the black roads gave agency to intense fog. The fog was thence dense , that nosotros were hardly able to run across our ain car's bonnet properly. Visibility was reduced close to nada together with thence did our vehicle's speed.
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| The black cow |
There was a pocket-size house close Sholayar Dam called 'Malakkarappara' where nosotros crossed a guy walking amongst a cow.
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| Mystic roads |
If this was a ghost town nosotros almost decided to rest amongst the ghosts for the night. At to the lowest degree this house had some light.
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| The ghost town |
But thence nosotros crossed this stretch together with made for Valparai. Then nosotros took a bypass to Pollachi together with Erode.
We had to rest for the black inwards Erode because it was already ii AM together with Bangalore was even thence far away. My friend drove several hundred kilometres through traffic together with heavy mountains together with unsafe fog.
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| Erode |
adjacent hateful solar daytime early on morn nosotros started from Erode together with reached Bangalore condom together with sound.