A reservoir 13 km from town with boating, a shola forest edge and the roadside spot where the hills answer back.
The standard taxi circuit stops here. Boating prices are per boat — worth checking before you agree. Go early; tour buses arrive by 11am.
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The Kanan Devan estate's museum and working factory, where you follow a leaf from plucking to packet…
A wide cascade between Munnar and Pallivasal, at its most impressive right after the monsoon.
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Claimed as the world's highest tea estate at 2,100 m, reached by a punishing jeep track, with a sunrise…