Visit to Makino Botanical garden, Kochi

entrance to the garden.






the main gallery has been cunstructed with wood, finely lighted inside with classical music to have a pleasant feeling







when we visited, there was an exhibition of world's tea varieties on show.






an explanation of Nilgiri tea, typical of coonoor plantations in ooty, TN, India
this explains the taste of nilgiri tea is one of the favorites of japanese people.