Hill Stations
Thiruvananthapuram Hill Station
Ponmudi (61 km from Thiruvananthapuram city):
An idyllic hill resort with narrow, winding pathways and cool, green, wooded
environs, Ponmudi is located 915 m above sea level. Along with a variety of
beautiful mountain flowers, exotic
Trekking is a passion with the visitors to Ponmudi (al-titude: 1066m), lying
within easy driving distance from Trivandrum.
You will find yourself compulsively pausing every now and then to drink
in deep the spectacular sweep of the hill range, tea-estates and the imlstcovered
valleys, peppered with little to -like stone cottages painted a pretty violet,
pilnk, or white with pointed and peaked roofs.
Ponmudi throws up other surprises too. Orchids, for in-stance, thrive in wild
profusion. A charming deer park is only3 kms away from the resort. And Golden
valley -another pretty picnic spot endowed with batural springs-is a little
further down the hill.
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