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Kerala
Ponmudi is a hill in the Western Ghats in Thiruvananthapuram district, and the Forest Department runs it as an eco-tourism site with a paid entry ticket.
Vagamon is tea gardens, meadow and pine forest on the Kottayam–Idukki border, about 1,100 m up.
Meesapulimala is a summit of about 2,640 m on the Idukki district border, between the Anaimalai and Palani hills near Suryanelli, and it is not a hill you…
Meghalaya
Maw phlang means grassy stone, and like many Khasi settlements this one is named for its monoliths.
The Myntdu river wraps around three sides of the plateau this town sits on, which is the most striking thing about a place that is otherwise a working…
Umiam Lake, popularly known as Barapani, is a large, sparkling reservoir set among pine-clad hills just north of Shillong in Meghalaya.
Karnataka
Chikmagalur is the coffee heartland of Karnataka, a lush hill district in the Western Ghats where rolling estates, misty peaks and waterfalls draw a steady…
The mistake in Alleppey is the day boat. A houseboat only becomes worth it once the day-trippers have gone home and the water goes quiet.
Maharashtra
Mahabaleshwar sits at 1,353 metres on a broad plateau ridge of the Sahyadri range in Satara district, the highest and most extensive hill resort in…
Dawki and Mawlynnong sit in the southern hills of Meghalaya near the Bangladesh border, known for the crystal-clear Umngot River and for Mawlynnong's title as…
Kodachadri is a misty Western Ghats peak in Karnataka, draped in shola forests and grasslands and crowned by the ancient Sarvajna Peetha linked to Adi…
Cherrapunji, known traditionally by its indigenous name Sohra, is a high tableland at 1,430 metres on the southern face of the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya.
Lonavala and Khandala are twin hill stations at 622 metres on the sweeping Sahyadri ridges of the Western Ghats, close enough together to be treated as one…
Munnar is a hill station at about 1,600 metres in the Western Ghats of Idukki district, set where three mountain streams meet — the Mudrapuzha, the…
Mawsynram, the wettest place on earth, and the nearby village of Nongriat anchor southern Meghalaya's wonder-region of living root bridges, deep gorges and…
Wayanad is a plateau district between 700 and 2,100 metres, and the drive up from Kozhikode climbs nine hairpin bends at Thamarassery that back up badly at…
Coorg is coffee country, and the point of coming is to stay on an estate rather than in Madikeri, which is a hill town with traffic.
Matheran bans motor vehicles inside the town, which makes it the quietest place within two hours of Mumbai and the only hill station in Asia to enforce that.
