KOOKKAL OR KUKKAL PART 1 EXPLORE THE NEELAKURINJI FLOWERS…2018

 

WESTERN GHATS EXPLORER…

KOOKKAL – HEAVEN OF KODAIKANAL…

EXPLORE THE NEELAKURINJI FLOWERS…

 

Strobilanthes kunthiana, also known as Kurinji or Neelakurinji in Malayalam and Tamil, is a shrub native to Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu's shola forests. The purplish blue blooms of Neelakurinji, which bloom just once every 12 years, gave the Nilgiri Hills their name, which literally means "blue mountains." Strobilanthes kunthiana is the most thoroughly recorded of all long interval bloomers (or plietesials), having documented bloomings in 1838, 1850, 1862, 1874, 1886, 1898, 1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970,1982, 1994, 2006, and 2018.

Kurinjimala Sanctuary preserves the kurinji in a 32-square-kilometer core habitat in the villages of Kottakamboor and Vattavada in Kerala's Idukki district. The Save Kurinji Campaign Council organises conservation campaigns and activities for the Kurinji plant and its habitat.  Strobilanthes plants are also preserved at the Kurinji Andavar temple in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, which is devoted to Tamil God Murugan.

In Kodaikanal there is a village called kookkal its really a natures gift.

Once I reached there it was fully mists and clouds around me

After I chilled sometime I was going down to the hilarious mountain top to bottom to explore the neelakurinji flower.

Its finally a never forgotten memory and around that mountains