Kodaikanal – Through the Interface

In total we stayed for 5 days in Kodaikanal, India. It’s really not the ideal time of year to visit Kodaikanal: the Northeast Monsoon is just getting started, so you can end up staying indoors more than you’d like. But then when you’re on a world tour you’re inevitably going to experience imperfect timing at one point or another (another example from this trip includes being in South America not long after their mid-winter). So it goes.

As luck would have it, during the first 3 days of our stay in Kodaikanal we had near-perfect weather. It was a lot cooler than the plains – of course, given the altitude – but we had quite a lot of sun. Very pleasant conditions to visit the area.

Coaker's Walk

The view from Coaker's Walk

The vegetable market

Kodaikanal Lake

Driving through the trees around the lake

The light is beautiful after the rain

Monkey on a wall

Cows own the road

Buying chocolate in Kodaikanal

The last 2 days were unfortunately rainy, but then we all made use of the time spent indoors in our own ways. It wasn’t a completely unwelcome break, at least.

On the morning of our last day, we took a car down to Kodaikanal Road, the main station that’s “only” 2.5 hours away, and…

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