Valparai

Valparai is one of the beautiful tourist places in South India. Valparai tourist places are nice to watch and have a memorable time. Valparai a taluk and hill station in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, India.

Valparai is located 3,500 ft above sea level on the Anaimalai hills range of the Western Ghats. Major portions of the land own by private tea companies, large forest areas continue to be out of bounds.

Valparai Hair Pin Bend

Valparai is about 65 km from Pollachi and also 80 km from Udumalai. The road from Pollachi to Valparai has 40 hairpin bends. Hence it takes about 2 hours to reach Valparai from Pollachi on State Highway 78.

Tamil Nadu Transport operates bus from Valparai to Pollachi, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Udumalai and Palani. Valparai connect to Athirampalli falls by road and 130 km from Valparai to Chalakudi.

Valparai Tourist Places to visit:

Indira Gandhi Wild life Sanctuary and National Park

Parambikulam Tiger Reserve

Eravikulam National Park

Aliyar Dam

Monkey Falls

Sholayar Dam

Nirar dam

Manampalli Forest

Grass Hills

Kadamparai Dam

Karamalai Annai Velankanni Church

Valparai Tourist Places: Indira Gandhi Wild life Sanctuary and National Park

Indira Gandhi Wild life Sanctuary and National Park is tourist place located in Valparai. Topslip is an another tourist place located near to this place.

Its a very huge reserve with mountains, forests, hills, falls, dams, animals and trees. Topslip seems to be focal point and no private places allocate at certain point.

We can buy a ticket and travel into the forest using forest department vehicles. They are many wild life animals we can see like Sambar deer, Malabar giant squirrel, Peacocks, langurs etc..,

Valparai Tourist Places: Aliyar Dam

Aliyar Dam is located about 25 km from Pollachi in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu at the foot of Valparai, in the Anamalai Range of the Western Ghats.

Therefore if you are looking for a picnic spot, well, this is where you should head to! For those who want to stay overnight, there’s a forest rest.

In Aliyar Dam, there are some shops around this place to have some snacks/ get refreshed.

Valparai Tourist Places: Parambikulam Tiger Reserve

Parambikulam Tiger Reserve is a well protected ecological portion in the Nelliampathy – Anamalai landscape of the Southern Western Ghats in India.

It is located in the Palakkad District of Kerala. It is one of the biodiversity hot spot in the world supports diverse habitat types and endemism.

Considering its biological richness, abundance of wildlife and landscape beauty makes Parambikulam Tiger Reserve is one of the most attractive places in the entire stretch of Western Ghats.

It was declared as Tiger Reserve during 2009 with total area of 643.66 Sq Km, which includes core area of 390.89 and 252.77 Sq Km Buffer area.

Valparai Tourist Places: Eravikulam National Park

Eravikulam National Park is a national park located along the Western Ghats in the Idukki district of Kerala in India, It is the first national park in kerala.

Administered by the Kerala Department of Forests and Wildlife, Munnar Wildlife Division, together with the nearby Mathikettan Shola National Park, Anamudi Shola National Park, Pambadum Shola National Park, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary and the Kurinjimala Sanctuary. Eravikulam National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Valparai Tourist Places: Monkey Falls

Monkey Falls are natural waterfalls located near the uphill ghat road Valparai. Monkey Falls is about 30 km from Pollachi. Refreshing Natural Water Falls about 6 km from Azhiyar Dam.

Falls was very awesome and fantastic to see. Its was very relaxing and water falls was very beautiful.

Valparai Tourist Places: Sholayar Dam

Sholayar Dam situated 20 km from Valparai. A part of the hydroelectric project of Tamil Nadu, special permission require to visit the dam.

The Solaiyar dam a vital reservoir under the Parambikulam Aliyar Project and has a water storage capacity of 160 ft. The reservoir’s overflowing waters are let into the Parambikulam Reservoir through the saddle dam.

It is constructed by a team who was working under K Palanisamy, the most popular engineer in that area. Sholayar Dam is built in ss, Sholayar Flanking in 1964 and Sholayar Saddle Dam in 1965.

The reservoir has an area of 8.705 Sq Km and the length of the dam is 430.60 m. The Sholayar Dam has a height of 66 m and 430 m width, Sholayar Flanking has a height of 28 m and 19 m width and Sholayar Saddle has a height of 259 m and 109 m width.

Valparai Tourist Places: Nirar Dam

Nirar Dam is located 15 km from Valparai. The dam constructe as part of the hydroelectric power project that powers many an industry and home in the plains.

It also plays an important role in terms of irrigation and supplies water to places in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Nirar Dam, along with Sholayar Dam and Aliyar Dam are the three most important dams that are located in and around Valparai. It was very decent Place in Dense Forest.

Valparai Tourist Places: Manampalli Forest

Manampalli Forest (Manomboli) it’s one of range in Anaimalai Tiger Reserve, located about 20 km from Valparai known for its thick Shola forests, fast flowing rivers and scenic beauty.

Manampalli Forest known for its thick shoal forest and the rich fauna being geographically bordered to Top slip and Parambikulam. This place is actually between Sholayar and Valparai but 8 km inside the forest.

This place has some human presence (very less) in the form of Sholayar Power House where some people work and thereby lives in the government provided accommodation facility. But the only public transportation available is the bus which goes to Valparai in the morning and returns by evening.

Guest house maintain by Tamil Nadu Forest department and not part of the power house project. Not something which we can locate on Google Maps. It shows Manamboli forest on the wrong direction near Idamalayar.

Manampalli Forest is 9 km from main road while Sholayar is 8 km and Valparai is 15 km from the check-post.

Valparai Tourist Places: Grass Hills

Grass Hills National Park is a protected area in the Western Ghats, India, and a part of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, forming its boundary with Eravikulam National Park in neighboring Kerala state.

The landscape is a combination of peaks and high plateaus above 2000 m MSL composed of montane shola grass land eco system that is unique to the higher ranges of the Western Ghats of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

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