After much deliberation in addition to planning nosotros decided to go to Kerala, God's ain terra firma for the Monsoon Road trip.
DAY 1 : Bangalore to Namakkal We started belatedly from Bangalore on my friend's Scorpio in addition to drove towards Namakkal, a pocket-sized town inward Tamil Nadu. Dead at black nosotros got a practiced bargain at a hotel called 'Sanu International' .
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| The Trip Route |
DAY 2: Namakkal to Kumily in addition to Gavi  |
| Namakkal Fort |
The room provided a wonderful persuasion of Namakkal fort early on morning.
Getting refreshed nosotros started early on in addition to drove on to i of the best highways I receive got driven thence far.
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| Namakkal to Kumily |
This route only 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 or thence was amazing.
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| Suruli Water falls |
Before reaching Kumily nosotros decided to accept 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 in addition to Kerala |
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| Paddy fields on the route |
When nosotros stopped , nosotros could experience the current of air in addition to the musical rhythm that it generated inward the paddy fields all or thence us.
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| Western Ghats in addition to the fields |
The mountains in addition to the grasslands all offered an exquisite view.
The highway twisted in addition to turned. We came across large kokosnoot plantations, grape vine plantations in addition to keen mountains inward 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 in addition to 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 in addition to boating was shut 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 meliorate than the pocket-sized monkeys which were snatching nutrient from the tourists.
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| A Black Monkey |
There is a prissy eco tourism store where i tin ship away purchase prissy t-shirts, jackets, caps etc perfect blend colors for wild fauna visits.
They also sold mementos , dearest are other exquisite items. I ended upwards spending a lot of fourth dimension here.
Since at that spot was nevertheless some fourth dimension to kill nosotros decided to attempt out the Gavi road. However nosotros had no clue that it is business office of the Periyar Tiger Reserve in addition to request permission to become inside.
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| Tea Gardens |
The route to Gavi was first-class in addition to nosotros were expecting to drive through the jungle.
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| Numerous pocket-sized streams of H2O in addition to beautiful scenery |
We passed picturesque areas till nosotros were stopped at the entry gate in addition to informed that it was shut for the day.
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| The Periyar Tiger Reserve |
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| Checkpost |
The side past times side business office of the twenty-four hours was a chip weird. We were extremely lucky to discovery a prissy cosy house to rest inward Gavi Gate. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lady showed us the room in addition to at that spot was a eatery correct at the front end of it. They provided us some superb nutrient for the night.
It was indeed a mutual frigidness black in addition to afterward a really long twenty-four hours in addition to some keen 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 upwards early on morning. We rushed to the banking concern lucifer post service i time again because the safari fourth dimension was 6:30 AM. Initially at that spot was some confusion well-nigh minimum set out of members of a omnibus safari , which I did non empathise because at that spot were quite a few inward 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 upwards properly nosotros saw the beautiful beasts. I had to zoom a chip to capture the elephants in addition to i of them seemed to last a infant tusker.
The Gavi Road is truly really narrow in addition to the omnibus was truly really noisy in addition to without stupor absorbers, thence most my pictures were pretty hazy.
Its truly a practiced matter to create a twenty-four hours long Jeep Safari ( Rs 1000 per head) which gives much to a greater extent than flexibility.
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| Beautiful jungle |
At a prissy persuasion indicate nosotros finally managed to accept a grouping photo. Then nosotros moved on.
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| A persuasion point |
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| More jungle roads |
There was a brusque trek mid means 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 in addition to snacks somewhere inward Gavi. We went dorsum to our hotel, freshened up, had breakfast in addition to left for Kochi.
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| The Gavi Gate restaurant |
This house is completely no-frills , but a really calm, construct clean in addition to prissy place. Also , they request a novel banner. The appam was nice.
Immediately afterward Gavi nosotros decided to purchase some spices.Then nosotros drove through i of the most beautiful places on globe - God's ain terra firma - Idukki district.
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| Winding routes through tea gardens |
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| Beautiful valleys |
We crossed beautiful tea plantations, thousands in addition to 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 or thence mesmerized us. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pocket-sized grouping of teenagers were playing football game on i of the most beautiful grounds that I receive got e'er seen.
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| Football beside the tea gardens |
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| A pocket-sized describe of piece of employment solid in addition to a pocket-sized waterfall. An ideal house to stay. |
Perhaps i of them has a describe of piece of employment solid unit of measurement that stays beside this pocket-sized waterfall. Truly, nature has a means of providing things that coin cannot only buy.
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| Tea garden workers. |
Picking tea leaves inward a tea garden. An amazing environs of work.
We decided to commons our vehicle in addition to soak ourselves inward the prosperity of nature.
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| A prissy view |
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| Ranges of dissimilar shades of green |
The dissimilar shades of greenish in addition to the monsoon clouds would capture a poet's imagination.
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| Rains through the car |
The rains came fast in addition to quick inward 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 in addition to the beautiful Periyar river flowing inward front end of it. We had some ordinary biriyani , it was already 4 PM in addition to quite belatedly for lunch.
We managed to accomplish Kochi exactly earlier Dinner fourth dimension afterward driving through some crazy traffic. Crossing the chief metropolis in addition to the isle of Weldington nosotros reached Fort Kochi. We made some staying arrangements at a house called 'Rossitta' . It was a prissy traditional form of house amongst wooden floors in addition to a prissy balcony.
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| A hotel inward Kochi |
DAY 4: Kochi to Bangalore via Athirapally in addition to Valparai
We began the twenty-four hours lazily (that was a mistake). After a lazy stroll or thence 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 deport raw fish.
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| Banana Chips in addition to Jackfruit chips |
On the means out from Kochi nosotros stopped at a house to purchase some famous banana chips. You tin ship away brand out from the size of the Kadai (cooking vessel) the quantity of chips going for direct youngster inward unmarried slot.
After leaving the metropolis behind nosotros drove direct towards Athirapally Waterfalls.
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| Road to Athirapally |
This is an amazingly prissy route to drive amongst huge plantations in addition to woods regions.
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| Forest Flower |
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| The Grameen initiative |
We stopped at a Grameen pump (Village run center) to receive got a pocket-sized repast amongst fish fry.
Then nosotros reached Athirapally Waterfalls. It was horribly crowded , but nosotros managed to teach some prissy views.
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| Athirapally from the top |
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| Another persuasion 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 solely photograph that I managed to accept without the crowd of swarming people.
Then I heeded some advice of the Kerala Forest Department.
"When the in conclusion tree is cutting in addition to the in conclusion river is poisoned human being volition realize he can't consume his money"
We decided to motion on equally it was getting late. It was already v PM in addition to nosotros were non fifty-fifty through the sight seeing spots.
After crossing a checkpost nosotros entered i of the most desolate forests of Kerala. This stretch nosotros truly stretched ourselves to overcome.
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| The danger route |
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| Streams |
We crossed numerous pocket-sized streams similar this. The jungle path was littered amongst signs of elephant crossings in addition to nosotros witnessed elephant dung at several places.
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| Reservoir |
We crossed some other reservoir on the way.
Soon it was black in addition to pretty impossible to accept a photo. But thence the black roads gave means to intense fog. The fog was thence dense , that nosotros were hardly able to run into our ain car's bonnet properly. Visibility was reduced nigh to zip in addition to thence did our vehicle's speed.
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| The black cow |
There was a pocket-sized house nigh 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 in addition to made for Valparai. Then nosotros took a bypass to Pollachi in addition to Erode.
We had to rest for the black inward Erode because it was already two AM in addition to Bangalore was nevertheless far away. My friend drove several hundred kilometres through traffic in addition to heavy mountains in addition to unsafe fog.
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| Erode |
side past times side twenty-four hours early on morning time nosotros started from Erode in addition to reached Bangalore prophylactic in addition to sound.