On the Trail

Munnar

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February 12th 2006
The bus ride from Cochin to Munnar was 120 kilometers which is 75 miles. It took us four and a half hours. That is just about 15 miles per hour. Most of the ride was uphill and all of the ride was mountainous turns. We didn't hit one straight-away that last more than 30 seconds; for the length of the ride, the bus turned, sometimes a little, sometimes a u-turn. So for the duration of the ride ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more