💎 Hidden Gem🌄 Viewpoint🪂 Adventure📍 Nature

Top Station & Kolukkumalai

Munnar, Kerala, India

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Overview

The cloud-balcony over the Theni plains at Top Station and the jeep-track to Kolukkumalai — the world's highest organic tea estate at 7,900 ft.

Why visit: Sunrise above a cloud ocean from the highest tea on earth.

Things to do

›Kolukkumalai sunrise
›Old tea factory
›Top Station cliff
›Kurinji viewpoints

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Travel Information

Best time

Sep–May; dawn jeeps

Entry fee

Jeep charter

Est. budget

₹800–2,000

Duration

Half–full day

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