RAINFOREST

RENDEVOUZZ… 25 Jul to 28 Jul 2013

ALIYAR DAM ON OUR WAY TO VALPARAI

HAIRPIN BENDS ON THE WAY TO RAINFOREST

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.

MONICA BUNGLOW

MILKY EFFECTS

LION - TAILED MACAQUE

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".

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.

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

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’

Nilgiri Tahr

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