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Athirappilly Falls is known for its charming landscapes. This waterfalls is also know as ‘The Naigara of India’, its formation resembles the popular Naigara Falls in the USA. It is also the largest waterfalls in Kerala. For last day of our trip we planned to visit this beautiful waterfalls, this water falls is around 130 Kms from Munnar and around 70 Kms from Kochi. While returning from Idukki dam we stayed at Kochi and before reaching Banglore we got a chance to visit this falls. This falls is around 525 kms from Bangalore.   One of the reasons behind the popularity of Athirappilly Falls are the movies that were shot here. Athirappilly Falls is one of the top film shooting locations in India. There is a big list of hit movies which famed at this beautiful place.  They will charge Rs. 15/- as entry fees and its open for visitors from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Its quite difficult to find a parking for your cars on crowded days. We can have different views of this falls. One is top...

Munnar is one of such places where, no need to go far to visit waterfalls on the way only we will get to see many unknown waterfalls. That too in monsoon no need to mention it. We were luck to witness many such waterfalls on the way to Idukki dam.  After enjoying  drive around munnar  and visiting  mattupetty dam  we headed towards Idukki dam. On the way passed some of the beautiful waterfalls. Although it was only 40Kms from place we stayed we took more than 4 hours to reach and ended up traveling more than 100Kms because of misguide or missing route!    After reaching dam, one more thing made us upset!  Near this dam Photo shoot is strictly prohibited. Such a beautiful place but we can’t capture that in our cameras. We do have lock rooms near ticket counter. We have to drop all our belongings at this place and should head towards dam.   They will charge Rs. 10/-entry fee to the dam and you have option to walk around the dam or you can opt f...

Trip started with ultimate   drive through the routes of Munnar . After spending some relaxing hours in resorts we were ready to explore Munnar. Before starting to Dam, spent some time in clicking the pics around the resort.  There are multiple options to visit places around Munnar. As in other cities, Munnar also categorised into two parts: Old Munnar and Munnar town. Munnar town is the place where we see most of the shops, market place, cafes & guest houses. Just passed those roads and headed towards Mattupetty Dam.  Mattupetty Dam is around 11 Kms from Munnar (around 25 Kms from the place we were staying) we will get couple of other view points before reaching the dam. But, rain was quite study and didn’t let me to take my camera out of car.  Thankfully rain stopped for a while when we reached the dam and let us to take some pics.  Again rain started heavily we were rushed to our car and headed back to our hotel. Because of heavy rain faced difficulty whi...

Monsoon expeditions started as per plan, after couple of one day encounters it was time to execute the long drive plans. Drive to munnar was planned well in advance. This drive was planned for 3 days. Sunil, Pradeep, Guru and Siddesh joined for this trip. Since we planned this trip in advance we got enough time to book hotels for our stay and to make a list of places to visit.  We decided the trip dates from July 8 th to 10 th . Started our journey on Thursday late night itself, every one gathered near our home and started our journey around 11.00PM. We can reach Munnar in different routes, since roads will be closed in night time to public vehicles in forest check post (Mysore route) we opted Housr – Dharmapuri - Selam – Namakkal – Dindagal – Munnar (around 520 Kms). Compared to other routes this route is bit long, but still considering the condition of road we chose this route.  Since it was late night, even traffic was not much and drive was very smooth. We estima...