KODAIKANAL

Kodai Kanal

 Kodaikanal is a beautiful hill station located on top of the Palani Hills at an altitude of 2100 meters or 7000 feet. Kodaikanal was developed by Christian missionaries in the 19th century.  Today it’s a tourist favourite.  Some tourists go to Kodaikanal for a day with a prescribed list of sightseeing places and visit each site and take photographs put it on their facebook and instagrams and speed down the mountain before the day is done.  Others stay many days and explore the small lanes that surround the slopes around the pristine lake and enjoy the old rustic buildings that remain.  Then there are tourists that don’t spend much time in the Kodaikanal town and focus primarily on the mountains with the lush grasslands and clusters of green rainforests known as sholas. In Tamil the word Solai means forest.

The Berijam lake

The Berijam lake in Kodaikanal is located deep in the Kodaikanal forest about 23 km interior Kodaikanal
Berijam Lake is a reservoir near Kodaikanal town in Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu, South India. It is at the old site of "Fort Hamilton", in the upper Palani hills.  The lake was created by a dam with sluice outlets and is part of a micro–watershed development project. Periyakulam town, 18.7 kilometres (11.6 mi) to the SE, gets its public drinking water from the lake. The lake’s water quality is excellent and its quite a beautiful site to visit. 

Coaker’s walk , Kodaikanal

After resort exploration, we went to the Coaker’s walk which was just 150 mtrs away from our resort. Coaker’s walk is a very famous tourist destination in Kodaikanal. It is 500 metres from the bus-stand, constructed by Lt.Coaker in 1872. It is a 1-kilometre paved pedestrian path running along the edge of steep slopes on the southern side of Kodai. On a clear day one can view the deep valley and stunning panoramic view of the plains. Entrance fee for walk is Rs 5 per person and Rs 10 for camera.

                                    

Guna cave

Named after Kamal Haasan movie Guna whose shooting was done here.It is a very deep cave with dangerous slopes. Area around the cave is guarded with iron grills.You can get the view of cave from a distance only.I came to know that around 40 accidental deaths have happened at this place and hence under precautionary measures it has been guarded with grills. Be careful on slopes. From here you can get a view of valley also. Full path is covered with many parallel lines of long trees with many many hanging-jumping monkeys on the tree.    

                             

Pillars rock

A nice valley where two rocks are standing side-by-side and will give you a feeling of “Petronas Towers” of Malaysia. View of the valley is very nice from this place. It was a very cloudy day and after a wait of 15-20 mins we were able to see the Pillars rock, which was covered under clouds till then. Clouds were coming and going, giving a hide and seek view of pillars rock.

                                   

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