A splendid location on a hillside near Munnar on an organic plantation producing cardamom and coffee. Accommodation is in about ten cabins/bungalows in the pleasant grounds. Ours was a large, split level room with comfortable bed, simply furnished, and with its own semi-private garden sitting area. Meals are taken in a small indoor restaurant building: made to order for lunch when we arrived; served from a copious buffet in the evening and breakfast. Food was freshly prepared, homely and unsophisticated. Staff are very welcoming, helpful and keen to do the right thing, but they are a bit amateurish and tentative. There was no alcohol on the premises when we arrived for lunch, but they happily went shopping and provided beer forthe evening meal. Activities are available on the estate: looking at the cardamom-drying shed; looking at nature in the hilly tropical forest; getting views of the beautiful Western Ghats mountains, etc. We took a guide for a four-hour 'trek' through the estate looking at the spices, birds and animals there, but had to overrule his plans to return by walking ***** a main road / by tuk-tuk, and came back via the forests again.
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