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Campus → Pollachi → Aliyar → 40 hairpin bends → Valparai
- Depends on your campus; 64 km from Pollachi · 105 km from Coimbatore
- Valparai
- Lunch, dinner
Early departure from campus, with a breakfast stop. At Aliyar Dam and Loam's View Point, students see the Parambikulam–Aliyar reservoirs and the plains around Pollachi from above. After lunch and room allocation in Valparai, an optional evening session with our naturalist introduces the plateau: why tea estates and forest fragments sit side by side, and how to behave around elephants and gaur.






