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.
