The local bus ride was so much fun and it didn't even take that long considering India time and the roads up here, 6 hours is very ok on a bus! What I didn't realise was how many rich areas there are in kerala as we were driving away from the city we were passing a nicer villa after the other, massive houses with big drive inns. India is defiantly full of contrasts! As we got higher up in the mountains it was amazing to feel the fresh air and the surroundings: WOW full of high mountains and lots of tea and spice plantations, very very nice (yes I say this a lot know). The main street in Munnar is very small but lots of people, it has no restaurants, but lots of good local food and amazing home made chocolate! We found a cute little pink guest house where we stayed for a few nights before moving up even higher to Koodaikanal. This bus drive started off very nice, but we got stuck for 2 hours on the way as there was a truck that had problems and was blocking the way in the middle of a turn. I also will admit that it can be very scary as the bus driver drives like a crazy banana and when u look down its pretty far down! It also took us a lot longer time then expected and we arrived late in the evening so we ended up in a very shitty room in a basement of a house so we got out of there very quickly the nexy day thinking to stay another night somewhere else but ending up taking the nightbus to Bangalore (we have to go by there to get back to goa). Koodai kanal wasn't as nice as we thought it would be and very cold too, so Arambol wasn't a hard choice to make!
We arrived Bangalore 7 in the morning facing the usual choice of rickshaw drivers that took us to hotel that had the best policy ever consisting of a 24 hour check out meaning we had to check out 7 in the morning next day and wait around until 7 in the evening for our bus to Goa. Hehe what a system, that's India for you! Bangalore was very modern, too modern even, very dirty, extremely polluted was very hard to breath, but we had a very funny westernized day! Started our day with breakfast at Coffee Day, lunch at Pizza Hut, walking around a shopping centre, eating dounuts from the bakery and had dinner at KFC hehe We survived the day and got back to Arambol safely where we were greeted by lots of smiles and hugs, always good to be back home, the best hug was obviously from Stav that came screaming towards me with open arms shouting maja, that's pure love and the best kind :)
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