Sometimes it is great to just pack up and go, not thinking much about how you will find the resort or hotel you’d be staying in will feel like. Just consider booking into Spice Country Resort at Munnar and you’ll be pleasantly surprised and happy. When traveling with family, one thing you’d not want is to have to go around searching for the hotel in some winding road that leads nowhere and the roads have no signboards. You’d also find it difficult getting range on your mobile to ask directions.

Thankfully with the Spice Country Resort, the hotel is very easy to locate and is beside the Kochi-Munnar Highway. The perception you get from the hotel is that it is two-storied but then you realize that there are three floors below the level of the road and sinking into the landscape. What it results in is a breathtaking view of the valley and wooded forest area with rolling hills in the distance.

The Spice Country Resort has nice Family Suite which is interconnected rooms that can accommodate a family of four. There is a spacious balcony which gives you a fantastic view. The other choices in rooms include the Deluxe, which is a basic room with all amenities but without a balcony. The Honeymoon Suite is the most spectacular as it juts out into the valley and is truly spectacular, built in typical traditional Kerala style of architecture and completely enclosed in carved wood panels. The privacy that this room allows you is amazing. So is the view from this room.

You’ll love the coziness of the hotel and the warmth of the personnel. You feel welcome and raring to go visiting all the sights of Munnar. In the first round, you can indeed visit the site of the first Hydro-Electric Project in Kerala – Pallivasal. For decades, this project had met the lion’s share of Kerala’s electricity requirements.

If you love waterfalls and gushing waters, then the next point of the visit can be the Thoovanam waterfalls which are arguably the most beautiful waterfalls in entire Kerala. It is located about 10 km from Marayoor and close to the Tamil Nadu border, part of the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary. It is also a great place to go trekking.

An interesting place to visit is the private farm called Rose Gardens, spread over 2 acres of land which has flowering plants, spices like cardamom and vanilla, fruit trees and a whole lot more. The wonderful aromas and interesting facts about each plant and tree will be nice to know and learn. You’ll also love visiting the Kannan Devan Tea Museum – known as the first tea museum in India. Here you can learn all about how the tea plantations came about in Kerala and across India, their history and growth as well as the various types of teas and their specialties. The museum depicts the origin and growth of century-old tea plantation – from a simple tea roller to the present fully automatic tea factory of Madpatty.

Of course, you can never leave Munnar without visiting the Eravikulam National Park, spread over 97 sq km along the crest of Western Ghats. Here you can enjoy an amazing view of rolling hills that extend to the horizon. The park got the national park status in 1978 and here lives the protected and rare species of wild goats – the Nigiri Tahr. There are over 26 other species of Mammals in this park.

This is also the very place to witness the sea of blue flowers called Neelakurinji carpeting every inch of the hills of Munnar. This is an extremely rare phenomenon and it happens only once in twelve years! And hey, you are lucky as the flowering season is just around the corner. The official blooming season is from July to October, 2018 but the plants have already started flowering and giving us a sample glimpse of the wonders to come.

So get ready to book your rooms at the Spice Country Resort at Munnar right away as all the hotels in Munnar will witness massive bulk bookings as the blooming season arrives. It is best to book your rooms right away and plan your holidays with the Neelakurinji blooming which will be as sight to blow your mind away.