A trip was planning for last two months from my office, the destination and date changed often. Where we want to go! Munnar or valparai. At last we decided valparai. As we are having off days at weekends we planed the trip on Weekend .We are a small team which consists of less than 10.As the destination and date varies some of the members did thought of pull off from the trip. Meanwhile we booked a Qualis. Our team leader Jays introduced his intimate friend Vishnu to the party, were he booked the accommodation and food. I haven’t heard much of valparai so I searched the one and only popular search engine “Google”. Saw some blogs in which some awesome narrations which kept me interested
About Valparai
From Google I came to know that valparai is located above 3,500 feet from the sea level on the Annamalai mountain range. It is a town located on the Western Ghats, In Valparai, there are several tea and coffee estates, dams, water falls and 15 tea factories. Valparai totally gives us wonderful natural scenery, which stands majestically with forest all around. Sholayar Dam in Valparai is a fantastic dam to watch. Other important places to visit around Valparai are Balaji temple, Puncha Mugha Vinayagar Koil and spread across tea estates. Also we are supposed to saw lion-tailed macaque, the Nilgiri and the common langur, Malabar giant squirrel, elephant, gaur, spotted deer, sambar, barking deer ,wild boar reside and leopards
I believe there are two routes to reach the beautiful hill station
1) Coimbatore -pollachi- Valparai -165 Km
2) Chalakudy - Athirapilly - Valparai - 140 Km
Guys who Travels through Pollachi definitely will have breathtaking visuals, total 40 Hair pin bends, the valparai has the most number of Hairpin bends compared to other Hill stations like Ooty, Kodaikanal .Well we are forced to travel chalakudy- Athirapilly-valparai as which is the easiest route for us and we decided to enjoy with the lesser hair pin bends
First we planned to start at night but it’s not advisable to travel night in that part to world were as we can be attacked by wild elephants and leopards and also entry is restricted after 6pm and before 6am by Security Guards .Myself and Saju planed to take bike were we can enjoy the most of it .Also Vishnu told us some stories which forced us to take Saju’s Maruti Alto
