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A group of people standing on a rocky outcrop overlooking a mountainous landscape during sunset. 1
A man and woman standing in a tea plantation with terraced hills in the background. 2
Terraced tea plantations with winding paths. 3
A large indoor space filled with rows of green leafy plants. 4
A calm lake surrounded by green hills and a clear blue sky. 5
By 5 Senses Walks
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Price is ฿16,648 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2d
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  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

  • Explore the enchanting tea-scented highlands of Munnar on this 2-day private tour from Kochi. Discover the historic Lockhart Tea Estate, where the art of tea making comes alive, and enjoy breathtaking sunset views at Pothamedu. Awaken before dawn for a rugged ascent to Kolukkumalai, one of the world’s highest tea estates, to witness a stunning sunrise over misty valleys and tea fields. Relax by the serene Kundala Lake and visit the impressive Mattupetty Dam, all while benefiting from personalised attention and insights from local guides.

    • Private car transport with hotel pick-up and drop-off included
    • Experience tea production at the 19th-century Lockhart Tea Factory
    • Enjoy a spectacular sunrise at Kolukkumalai, the highest tea estate
    • Visit picturesque Kundala Lake and Mattupetty Dam for stunning views

Activity location

  • Munnar
    • Munnar, Kerala, India

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Munnar
    • Munnar, Kerala, India

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Munnar 2 Day Private Tour Tea Plantation and Kolukkumalai Sunrise

  • Activity duration is 2 days2d
    2d
  • English

Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 8:00
Price details
฿16,647.84 x 1 Adult฿16,647.84
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Price is ฿16,647.84
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What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Entrance fee
  • Inclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Breakfast
  • Inclusions
    Hotel in Munnar on double occupancy

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    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Kochi- Munnar

  • 3 stops
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Overnight stay in Munnar hotel

Munnar

  • 4h 30m
8 AM Pick up from Kochi 1230PM drop to Munnar

Lockhart Tea Museum

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
At Lockhart Tea Estate, you step into the working heart of Munnar’s tea country, where rolling bushes, cool mountain air, and century-old factory rhythms reveal how landscape becomes flavour. Established in the late 19th century, the estate showcases the science of tea making—leaf withering, oxidation, drying—processes carefully controlled by temperature and humidity, which researchers identify as key to aroma and taste development. Walking through the factory and tasting fresh brews, you experience tea not as a drink but as a living expression of altitude, climate, and human craft.

Pothamedu

  • 1h
Pothamedu View Point at sunset offers a wide, unbroken gaze over Munnar’s valleys, where tea gardens, cardamom hills, and distant ridges soften as daylight fades. As the sun lowers, changing wavelengths of light scatter through mist and moisture in the air—a well-documented atmospheric effect—turning the landscape gold, then amber, then blue in slow succession.

Day 2: Munnar- Kochi

  • 4 stops
  • Meals: breakfast
  • Accommodation: Not included

Kolukkumalai Sunrise View Point

  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
At Kolukkumalai, sunrise feels less like an event and more like a slow revelation, unfolding high above the clouds at nearly 2,700 metres, where thin air, low temperatures, and early light shape both landscape and tea. As dawn breaks, the sun spills over layered ridgelines and sea-like valleys, illuminating some of the world’s highest tea plantations—fields scientifically noted for their slow-growing leaves and intense flavour due to altitude and cool microclimates. The rough jeep trail, the quiet bite of mountain wind, and the first golden light together create a raw, elemental moment that feels untouched, intimate, and deeply grounding.

Kundala Dam Lake

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Kundala Lake sits quietly in Munnar’s high folds, its still waters formed by a mid-20th-century dam and fed by mountain streams that keep the lake cool, clear, and mirror-like through most of the year. Surrounded by shola forests and soft tea slopes, the calm surface reflects clouds, trees, and light so perfectly that the landscape seems doubled, creating a rare sense of visual stillness at altitude—a phenomenon often noted in highland reservoirs with low wind shear. Time slows here, inviting an unhurried pause where the silence, broken only by birds and water, becomes as much the experience as the view itself.

Mattupetty Dam

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Mattupetty Dam is where Munnar’s dramatic highland engineering meets quiet mountain beauty, a concrete gravity dam built in the late 1940s to support hydroelectric power and water regulation in the Periyar basin. The reservoir spreads out like a sheet of polished steel, edged by rolling grasslands and shola forests that support birdlife and, occasionally, grazing elephants.

Kochi (Cochin)

  • 4h 30m
4.5 hour drive

Location

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    Munnar
    • Munnar, Kerala, India

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    Munnar
    • Munnar, Kerala, India

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