The Tea Plantations
The town of Munnar isn’t much to write home about, but the hills surrounding it are covered in tea plantations. Almost every square inch is utilised and it’s incredibly beautiful. We’d booked a hotel with a balcony facing the hills and loved watching the ladies picking the tea by hand with a pair of sheers. We visited the tea museum which was fascinating and explained that all the plantations were planted under the British and prior to this the area was forested. Eventually one of the largest companies here remaining from British days was sold to the workers and is now a...
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