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Kerala

Plantations

With rich soils, plentiful rainfall and a range of climatic conditions, the lush slopes of the Western Ghats mountain range are the perfect site for the production of a huge variety of spices and coffee as well as some of the world ’s best teas. Pepper and other spices brought traders to the Kerala coast for centuries as they sought out the original ‘black gold’, and later the British desire to wrest control of the world’s tea production from China saw the slopes around Munnar transformed into a series of tea estates. In modern times the list of crops grown in the plantations of Kerala is long and varied - you can see coffee, cardamom, pepper, vanilla, nutmeg, clove, pimento and many more, alongside tropical fruits such as mango, bananas and pineapple which grow in profusion. Another important crop is rubber which thrives at lower altitudes closer to the coast.

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Waterfall at Banasura	Banasura, Wayanad	Banasura, Wayanad	Beetle - Banasura, Wayanad	Funny Sign, Blackberry Hills
Blackberry Hills, Munnar	Dewalokam	Goats at Dewalokam	Gecko at Dewalokam	Dewalokam
Waterfall, Dewalokam	Cocoa Pods at Kalaketty Estate	Kalaketty Estate driveway	Mundackal Homestay	Jose & Daisy, generous hosts of Mundackal Homestay
Keralan-style meal at Mundackal Homestay	Mundackal Homestay plantation	Bananas, Mundackal Homestay	Rubber trees at Mundackal	Rubber tree tapping
Banana palms at Mundackal	Jose will show you round the Mundackal plantation	Pineapples at Mundackal	Pepper vines at Mundackal	Coffee beans at Mundackal
Rubber processing building at Mundackal	Latex rubbersheets drying at Mundackal	Making the latex rubber sheets at Mundackal	Rubber sheet at Mundackal	Schoolgirls near Mundackal
Family on bike near Mundackal	Munnar mountain scene	Munnar mountain scene	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar mountain scene
Nilgari Thar - Munnar	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantations
Munnar tea plantations	Tea plantation village in Munnar	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantation workers
Drying in tea factory, Munnar	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantations	Munnar tea plantations
Sunset in Munnar	Sunset in Munnar	Treehouse in Thekkady, Periyar	Treehouse in Thekkady, Periyar	Wayanad scenery
Wayanad scenery	Plum-headed parakeet	Treehouse in Wayanad	Treehouse in Wayanad	Treehouse views, Wayanad
Coffee beans in Wayanad	Wayanad forest scenery	Flora in Wayanad	Wayanad scenery	Wayanad scenery