Golden Mountain or Pon-Mudi in Malyalam, is a small hill-station overseen by the Kerala Tourist Department and the government of Kerala, which means that any private housing or development in the area is restricted. As there is no local interference, Ponmudi remains uncluttered by the outside world with all its green, wild and completely natural beauty intact.
Changing several buses from the industrial and rather bland town of Kollum, touring villages and countryside full of rubber plantations, vegetable stalls, fruit markets and many old temples we arrived 97 kilometres and 4 hours later to this tranquil oasis.
Remote tea gardens planted with cardamom,
coffee and
spices with frequent sightings of pepper pickers
who had climbed high on the trees
aided by the black pepper vines.
The only sounds that permeated our horizon
were those of local birds,
occasional cries of monkeys and
sometimes the sounds of a motorcycle
taking one of the 22 hairpin curves either to and fro from Ponmudi. A few days later we boarded the bus to another big city, Thiruvananthapuram and one of the 108 Holy abodes of Lord Vishnu, the Padmanabhaswamy temple.
Remote tea gardens planted with cardamom,
coffee and
spices with frequent sightings of pepper pickers
who had climbed high on the trees
aided by the black pepper vines.
The only sounds that permeated our horizon
were those of local birds,
occasional cries of monkeys and
sometimes the sounds of a motorcycle
taking one of the 22 hairpin curves either to and fro from Ponmudi. A few days later we boarded the bus to another big city, Thiruvananthapuram and one of the 108 Holy abodes of Lord Vishnu, the Padmanabhaswamy temple.
The Interview is awesome! I felt transported to the tea estate.
ReplyDeletePonmudi indeed was an enchanted place.
ReplyDeleteVery Fab.
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