Weekend getaway to Wayanad, April 5 & 6

Every once in a while, it's nice to get out of town and do something different. So, earlier this month, since I had a long weekend (for those of you who don't know, that's a weekend with a holiday on either friday or monday), I took off for Wayanad with a friend. Wayanad is a hill station in Kerala, a 5-6 hour drive from Bangalore. This is tea plantation country and the drive was really beautiful with tea estates on either side of the road, not to mention the roads in Kerala which are really good compared to those in Bangalore.

View of a tea plantation

We stayed in a resort called Meenmutty Heights which was situated on a 300 acre plantation with the Meenmutty waterfall and a river on the estate itself.

One of the colourful cottages - really neat and comfortable.

I realised how unfit I am as to get to the room from the reception/dining area, you had to climb a bunch of stairs hewn out of the hillside. It was absolute torture and I discovered that there are muscles which are supposed to exist in the top part of the thigh - came to this sudden realisation when I felt the pain. The realisation further deepened when I discovered that there was no way in the world I could do the trek down to the waterfall, I went halfway on an almost non existent slippery path before realising I'd had enough - didn't have shoes that gripped and didn't have energy for the trek back up. My friend did go ahead though, and the photos I saw of the waterfall later were absolutely amazing, a real disappointment that i missed it but it's at least provoked me to start morning walks so I can lose the weight and increase my fitness. Attaching a couple of pics of the place - don't have the waterfall one though as my friend has just been too lazy to send it to me.

View of the river from my vantage point on the balcony outside my room. The distance indicates how far I had to reach for all meals everyday as the river was right beside the dining area.