From Cochin we drove to Thekkady via Munnar
On the way we experienced the beauty of :
Tea gardens,
Spice gardens,
Coffee and cocoa plantations .
Then in Tekaddy we had
wonderful forest border safari along with elephant ride ,elephant showers
We Stayed at wilderness resorts which provides a sentence wild looking experience in the lap of nature
My elephant shower video :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=xQY4O2Whpm0
Lovely backwaters
Shikara ride experience
Stayed at Pagoda resorts
More details at FB page named Travellingkida
We had a Lot of fun at Marine drive in Cochin and fort kochi.
Fort Kochi is known for its Dutch,British and Portuguese colonial architecture
We stayed at hotel Qasr. The hotel is nice with all the facilities and walkable distance to Marine drive and market.
Some Rain showers made our stay more pleasant
We rented a self drive car and went on to explore Kerela.