This rainforest tour was a great learning experience

1. RAINFOREST
RENDEVOUZZ
… 25 Jul to 28 Jul

2. ALIYAR DAM ON OUR WAY TO VALPARAI

3. HAIRPIN BENDS ON THE WAY TO
RAINFOREST

4. The pollution free heavenly land,
Valparai is located above 3,500 feet
from the sea level on the Anamalai
mountain range. Valparai does not
mean only a single town; it stands
majestically with Green Spread
Mountains and forest all around.

9. MONICA BUNGLOW

10. MILKY EFFECTS

13. LION - TAILED MACAQUE

14. The hair of the lion-tailed macaque is
black. Its outstanding characteristic is
the silver-white mane which
surrounds the head from the cheeks
down to its chin, which gives this
monkey its German name Bartaffe -
"beard ape".

15. The lion-tailed macaque is a diurnal
rainforest dweller. It is a good climber
and spends a majority of its life in the
upper canopy of tropical moist
evergreen forests. Unlike other
macaques, it avoids humans. In group
behavior, it is much like other macaques;
it lives in hierarchical groups of usually
10 to 20 animals, which consist of few
males and many females.

18. Nallamudi Poonjolai in
Valparai was just
another viewing point
in the hills until Velu’s
tryst with the divine.
The destination now
has a different name.
A board at the
entrance read ‘Seen
God’, with a footnote
below it ‘Om Adi
Muruga’.
VELU

19. This is where I saw God 37 years
ago Said Velu.. He claimed that
God had arrived in a bolt of light
and sound and he could see a
human form. Nallamudi Poonjolai
in Valparai was just another
viewing point in the hills until
Velu’s tryst with the divine. The
destination now has a different
name. A board at the entrance
read ‘Seen God’, with a footnote
below it ‘Om Adi Muruga’

21. Nilgiri Tahr

22. The Valparai range is also habitat the Nilgiri Tahr,
an endemic wild goat. These mountain goats
inhabit the high ranges and prefer open terrain,
cliffs and grass-covered hills, a habitat largely
confined to altitudes from 1200 to 2600m in the
southern Western Ghats. Their territory extended
far and wide all along these hills in the past, but,
because of hunting and large-scale habitat
destruction, they now exist only in a few isolated
sites like the Anaimalai