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Munnar Tea, Sun Rise & Living Traditions
Rs14750/person onwards
Private car
Hotel
2Days 1Night
World's highest Tea Estate
The journey rises gently from Kochi into Munnar’s cool, tea-scented highlands, where rolling plantations, the historic Lockhart Tea Factory, and fresh brews introduce you to a landscape shaped by altitude, climate, and centuries of tea cultivation science. Evening brings a picturesque sunset at Pothamedu. Before dawn on Day 2, a rugged ascent to Kolukkumalai’s sunrise—among the world’s highest tea estates—is followed by misty waterfalls, the mirror-still Kundala Lake, and a serene descent back to Kochi.
Lockhart Tea Estate
At Lockhart Tea Estate, you step into the working heart of Munnar’s tea country, where rolling bushes, cool mountain air, and century-old factory rhythms reveal how landscape becomes flavor. Established in the late 19th century, the estate showcases the science of tea making—leaf withering, oxidation, drying—processes carefully controlled by temperature and humidity, which researchers identify as key to aroma and taste development. Walking through the factory and tasting fresh brews, you experience tea not as a beverage but as a living expression of altitude, climate, and human craft.
Sun Rise at World's highest Tea Estate
At Kolukkumalai, sunrise feels less like an event and more like a slow revelation, unfolding high above the clouds at nearly 2,700 meters, where thin air, low temperatures, and early light shape both landscape and tea. As dawn breaks, the sun spills over layered ridgelines and sea-like valleys, illuminating some of the world’s highest tea plantations—fields scientifically noted for their slow-growing leaves and intense flavor due to altitude and cool microclimates. The rough jeep trail, the quiet bite of mountain wind, and the first golden light together create a raw, elemental moment that feels untouched, intimate, and deeply grounding.
Mattupetty Dam
Mattupetty Dam is where Munnar’s dramatic highland engineering meets quiet mountain beauty, a concrete gravity dam built in the late 1940s to support hydroelectric power and water regulation in the Periyar basin. The reservoir spreads out like a sheet of polished steel, edged by rolling grasslands and shola forests that support birdlife and, occasionally, grazing elephants.
Kundala Lake
Kundala Lake sits quietly in Munnar’s high folds, its still waters formed by a mid-20th-century dam and fed by mountain streams that keep the lake cool, clear, and mirror-like through most of the year. Surrounded by shola forests and soft tea slopes, the calm surface reflects clouds, trees, and light so perfectly that the landscape seems doubled, creating a rare sense of visual stillness at altitude—a phenomenon often noted in highland reservoirs with low wind shear. Time slows here, inviting an unhurried pause where the silence, broken only by birds and water, becomes as much the experience as the view itself.
Private Tour
A private Munnar tour allows us to focus all our attention on you and adjust the pace of the tour according to your interests. Pick and drop from your hotel in an air-conditioned vehicle is included.
Pothamedu Sun Set
Pothamedu View Point at sunset offers a wide, unbroken gaze over Munnar’s valleys, where tea gardens, cardamom hills, and distant ridges soften as daylight fades. As the sun lowers, changing wavelengths of light scatter through mist and moisture in the air—a well-documented atmospheric effect—turning the landscape gold, then amber, then blue in slow succession.
Strenghening local community
Our company is helping the local community by training & employing local guides. This initiative is to ensure travel dollars stay where they are spent.
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Pricing chart
4+ persons
Rs14750/person
- Pick & drop to Kochi
- Private Car
- Entrance charges
- 1 night stay in Hotel in Munnar on double occupancy
2-3 persons
Rs17500/each
- Pick & drop to Kochi
- Private Car
- Entrance charges
- 1 night stay in Hotel in Munnar on double occupancy
Single person
Rs31750/each
- Pick & drop to Kochi
- Private Car
- Entrance charges
- 1 night stay in Hotel in Munnar on single occupancy
Trip Itinerary
Experience cultural immersion in the Kerala in 5 days tour
Day 1- Kochi- Munnar
8AM Pick up from Hotel in Kochi
1230 PM- Arrive in Munnar
Lunch and Check in
3PM- Lokhard Tea Factory
Plantation Walk & Tea Tasting
Pothamedu Sun Set
7PM- Drop back to Hotel
Overnight in Munnar
Day 2- Munnar- Kochi
330AM- Pick up from Munnar Hotel
Sun Rise at Kollukkumalai
Jeep ride to World’s highest Tea Plantation
Kundala Lake
Mattupetty Dam
830PM- Drop to Kochi
4.5 hours drive
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