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Kodaikanal - The Princess of Hill Stations

Kodaikanal is one of the most peaceful and beautiful hill stations of Tamilnadu. Located 120 Km/75 mile away from Madurai, Kodaikanal is a hill station at an altitude of about 2133 meter, which is equal to 7,200 feet, above sea level on the southern tip of upper Palani / Palni hills in Tamil Nadu in the Western Ghats of picturesque Nilgiri Hills. Kodaikanal is also referred to as “Princess of Hill Stations”. There are many high waterfalls and ubiquitous gardens and flower beds in bloom. The hillside is covered by the meadows and the grassland, the valley is covered up by huge eucalyptus trees and Shola forest. The places to see are Kodaikanal Lake, Bryant Park, Coaker’s walk, Bear Shola Falls, Pillar rocks, Silver cascade, dolphin’s nose and Kurinji Andavar Murugan temple.

The Hills where Kodaikanal is situated are called Nilgiri Hills. Nilgiri, Nil means “Blue” and giri means “mountain”, literally means “blue mountains”. The valley is covered with blue color flowers known as Kurinji flowers (strobilanthes kunthianus) that bloom once in twelve years. The bright purple-blue bell-shaped flower is an atypical kind of flower, which grows mainly in Kodaikanal and Udhagamandalam (Ooty). The Kurinji flowers grow at an altitude of 6000 to 7000 ft on bushy shrubs of 8 – 10 feet high in the hill slopes of the Western Ghats. The last full bloom was in 2006 and the next full bloom is expected in 2018
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