There are other beautiful places in the Kerala Western Ghats, like Mattupatti, Vandiperiyar etc. Even Wynad is more beautiful. Reaching Wynad may have to be from Mysore or from Calicut or Kannur. There is no train service available. If you locate a good lodging house they may pick you up from the plains and provide you with excellant stay and food. There are many trecking tracks to some caves of aborigins. Mananthawady, Sulthan's Battery, Vythiri are some of the favourite destinations. There is a papanashini water falls where you can perform puja to the ancestors and wash away all your sins. Winter months from September to March are the ideal time to visit Wynad.

My dear friends,

Munnar is of course an unforgettable place to visit because of it’s natural beauty and every year it attracts tourist all over the globe…
The revenue from tourists is added boon to the local’s and State economy.
Utilizing this many moneyed, influential people and  political leaders have started investing in a big way to construct resorts, hotel complex and restaurants.
The un-planned exploitations by these elements took the Govt.. and judiciary by surprise.
This created chaos in the locals and in the assembly, Govt.. has to go for official records of forest lands and found that many areas belong to the department being exploited by many influential persons.
Then the operation clean up started and that is history now…
The worst part is the banks which financed these resorts and hotels for their constructions and now wonder how to recover the money and this will lead those banks financial losses in their annual reports.
There is also a hidden agenda of the Hawala money investments in this region by the way of constructions in illegal encroachments of the forest lands..

As the blogger rightly said those booked their advance reservations for the rest of the period has to re-check the credentials of these hotels…other wise they too stand to lose their money.

Subbu