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.
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…