I read this article today about a place very close to my village. It brought back memories. The place where I stood on the bridge connecting the twin towns (aah hmm villages) of Kallidai and Ambai and wrote my name on a concrete slab or taken pictures of the western ghats in the distance. This is the place where my cousin got married. The place where two sets of cousins grew up.
There is a lovely tea garden (Manjolai) closeby and if you further up the hills, you get to really cool places like Kudaraivetti, Kakachi and finally Kothaiyar. There are no hotels there, only a PWD guest house. And just a few shops where you may get cigarettes, biscuits etc. Very pretty these places are, quite unknown to people outside the area. A bus goes from Kallidaikurichi at 8AM, reaches the destination at about noon. The last bus leaves Kallidai around noon. Just 2 buses a day (or so it used to be about 10 years back) and terribly crowded too.
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