Weekend Trip to Anakulam, Munnar, Kerala.

It’s been more than months where I had done my backpacking trip & I was eagerly waiting for my next trip. There comes the long weekend, we thought of many places & finally landed in an amazing place called Anakulam, Idukki district of Kerala (God’s own country).

Mesmerizing view of Munnar

We started our trip on Saturday morning from Coimbatore & reached Munnar in the late afternoon. From there we traveled another 35 km inside the forest to reach the most amazing place. We checked in our resort by evening. 

By evening, we started exploring the local places in our car where we find out a perfect place to chill out, A check dam where we spent our time by taking bath in the running crystal clear water.

Greenery view which makes our mind calm & refreshing

After enjoyed the bath, we started our way back to our cottage. On the way back, we had seen a mesmerizing view where a herd of elephants came out from the jungle to have a water in the stream. We are delighted to see such a scenery where the herd of elephants enjoying the water without disturbing anyone.

Fortunate enough to have an wonderful scenery

Then comes the next wonderful moment, in the late evening we started our campfire & shared our best experiences & fully surrounded with happiness only. Then we had our delicious food BBQ, Chapatti with Chicken gravy for dinner. After completing the dinner, we started our story session & it continued till midnight.

Awesome view of a flower

Mind blowing place

The next morning after completed our breakfast we started our journey in Mahindra Jeep to explore the deep forest & we did off roading too. We had been delighted to experience the off roading & enjoyed it with the stunning Mahindra Jeep.

We had seen the hanging bridge during our trip & it was pleasant to see such an amazing creation by the mankind.

Hanging bridge

Then the real part comes; We went to the falls & enjoyed the shower over there for a very long time. 

Amazing falls to escape from the scorching weather

View of a valley where the falls origins

With a lot of fun & enjoyment, we spent our weekend in the amazing falls to escape from the scorching summer. With these various sweet memories, we ended our trip & back to normal workaholic life.

 

With love,

Prakash Ramasamy,

May 2018.