This beautiful hill sation is in Western Ghats in Kerala’s Idukki’s District, 5,000 ft above sea level. Route from Bangalore NH7 to Dindigul via Hosur and Salem; sate highway to Munnar via Sembatti, Kodaikanal, Beri-Jam Lake and Shola Falls. So this is what it feels to be utterly, deliciously, sinfully colonial, you will find yourself wondering, as you will soak in the neat arrays of verdant green, dotted with the reds and blues and
violets of the women who are plucking tea leaves.... And as the sun goes down on the hill crested horizon, and the gin-and-tonic in your hand speads a warmth matched only by the glow of the wicker-and-teak dining room of High Range Club, you know why the British chose this sleepy town as its summer capital when it was lording it over the natives. Tea plantations, trout-filled streams, placid lakes, picnic spots at each bend of the winding road, trekking routes that take you to the highest peak in South India...
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