Tea estates, Munnar. Photo: Rainer Halama, CC BY-SA 4.0

Green hills and lakes

Tea slopes, waterfalls and still lakes where the air tastes of rain.

Munnar's tea estates, Meghalaya's waterfalls and Umiam Lake, Darjeeling and Coorg. Cool, slow trips with heritage stays and toy-train mornings.

Popular places: Darjeeling, Munnar, Coorg, Shillong, Kalimpong.

4 journeys to start from

Darjeeling tea trails
Darjeeling4 days, 3 nights
From ₹14,000 per person
Tiger Hill sunrise, a tea estate tasting and the toy train to Ghum.
Munnar cloud estates
Kerala5 days, 4 nights
From ₹19,000 per person
Plantation bungalow, Eravikulam's Nilgiri tahr and an Ayurvedic massage.
Coorg coffee hills
Karnataka3 days, 2 nights
From ₹12,000 per person
A coffee estate homestay with plantation walks and Abbey Falls.
Shillong and the living root bridges
Meghalaya6 days, 5 nights
From ₹26,000 per person
Cherrapunji's waterfalls, Dawki's clear river and the double-decker root bridge.