Basilica. Overnight stay at hotel.
Day 3:
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Morning after breakfast proceed from Cochin to Munnar.
Transfer to hotel on arrival and spend the remaining day at
leisure. Stoll along the lush green surroundings in the
evening and enjoy the scenic beauty of Munnar. Overnight
stay at hotel.
Day 4:
The day is free to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of Munnar
valley. Visit the lush fragrant tea plantations. Until the early
1990s, Munnar, despite its enchanting natural beauty and
salubrious climate, continued to remain a sleepy
plantation town. Its tourism potential was realised only by the Sterling Group
and Mahindra Holidays. However, the promotion of Kerala globally as God's
Own Country and the rapidly increasing spending capacity of middle class
Indians has resulted in a virtual explosion of tourism activities in Munnar.
Resorts, big and small,have started springing up all around the town and
overnight the once sleepy town has became a bustling tourist destination.
Many of the developments done by unscrupulous investors have had a
significant detrimental impact on the environment in Munnar and the once
romantic beauty of the "sleepy town of Munnar" has significantly eroded over
the years. Moreover the huge throng of domestic and foreign tourists in their
buses and cars have added to pollution in Munnar and stretched the town's
infrastructure and service delivery systems to their limits. Earlier most of the
land around Munnar was leased out to planters and the only activity permitted
on such leased land was plantation of cardamom. Ownership continued to
remain with the Government and even cutting of trees on such leased land
was prohibited. However, the recent development of resorts has resulted in
large scale deforestation and violation of government regulations governing
land use, forests and plantation cultivation. It ultimately came to a pass in
2007, and the Government sprung into action to demolish illegal resort
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