This beautiful hill station has gentle hills covered with velvety tea plantations, forests, reservoirs and a small wildlife sanctuary in the vicinity. It is 3 hours by road from kochi. Munar set amid south india, most dramatic mountain scenery in whar was once known as the ‘high range of travancore', the tiny hill town of Munnar (152m) is the commercial centre of some of the worlds highest tea growing estates. The stone christ church (1910). Inside the well kept church are touching brass plaques in memory of the tea planters. While the walks out of Munnar in any direction offer spectacular views, Eravikulam national park where you can see the rare, but almost tame, nilgiri that ( a type of mountain goat), or a clamber over the slopes of Anamudi which is South India highest peak.