The best thing to do in Munnar costs nothing: walk a plantation road at dawn through waist-high tea with mist in the valleys.
Stick to estate roads rather than cutting through the bushes — it is working land and the paths between rows are for pluckers.
Must visit
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.
A reservoir 13 km from town with boating, a shola forest edge and the roadside spot where the hills…
Must visit
97 square kilometres of shola-grassland protecting the endangered Nilgiri tahr, with Anamudi — the…