Coonoor: A Morning Walk

On my first morning in Coonoor, in the cool Nilgiri hills, I went for a walk. Here are some of the things I saw:

All Saints' Church

A troop of monkeys living in style above a roadside garbage heap

Empty, meandering one-lane roads lined with wildflowers

Attractive bungalows, half-hidden behind trees

A No Tresspassing sign -- but since it was in Tamil I felt that I could ignore it ;). I walked down a path and saw

A tea garden, planted on a steep hillside, with a gurgling stream at the bottom, and forest rising on the opposite side

Dilapidated but charming buildings

More tea gardens, with a poor section of town below

A dead rat

Flowers!