15 February 2017

The Western Ghats of India: Top Station, Munnar

The Western Ghats in southern India are famous for several things, and this is one of those: rain. It was more like drizzle than proper rain, but I still enjoyed it after more than three months of seeing no rain other than a few light spots in Sikkim. This was the second time I'd visited Top Station; the first was the previous day when the almost cloudless sky allowed me wonderful views. Nice to see the place in such different conditions.

Back To Delhi early tomorrow; a day there, then the long journey back to Aotearoa/New Zealand begins. Almost six hours to Beijing, a thirteen-hour layover, then just over twelve hours to Auckland. Then I have to catch an overnight bus to Palmerston North -- and I'm still not back in the Valley.



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11 comments:

  1. Barbara Butler McCoy16 February 2017 at 00:17

    Oh, this feeds my delight in mystery. Beautiful photo. And after reading about your upcoming travel marathon I will stop fretting over my upcoming flight to California;). Safe travels.

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  2. Zhoen16 February 2017 at 01:13

    sigh

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  3. Lisa16 February 2017 at 14:04

    A beautiful, evocative image, Pete. Safe travels - and if you need to be picked up from the bus, let us know :-)

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  4. pohanginapete16 February 2017 at 23:42

    Barbara, Zhoen, Lisa: thank you. I'm safely back in Delhi, still struggling to believe my time in India's almost over.

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  5. Liz17 February 2017 at 21:46

    Palmy, probably just as misty and rainy as this.

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  6. pohanginapete17 February 2017 at 22:31

    Liz, I skyped my landlady this morning and she suggested I bring a boat back with me from India.

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  7. AJB21 February 2017 at 15:55

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  8. AJB21 February 2017 at 15:56

    I did Cambridge (UK) to London by train then flew to Pudong (Shanghai) to Auckland to Palmerston North in a long day at the end of August last year. After only being off crutches for a couple of days. It's all do-able but ain't much fun at the time. Safe travels.

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  9. pohanginapete21 February 2017 at 21:52

    Thanks Andrew. I managed it, but I don't ever want to do that again. Long haul flights and long layovers and sleeper buses aren't much fun with a vicious respiratory tract infection. I'm on antibiotics and all they're doing is making me feel crook as a dog and apparently not fixing the problem. Nietzsche was wrong — it's not killing me, but it's most definitely not making me stronger.

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  10. Jenny Woolf24 February 2017 at 07:17

    Looks warm, though misty. Great photo.

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  11. pohanginapete24 February 2017 at 08:55

    Thanks Jenny :-)

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