Why Kodaikanal is preferred by people across borders and called as ‘Princess of Hills’?

South India is blessed with many hill stations having diverse beauty and climatic conditions. Most of the people normally tend to visit the hill station which is nearer to their location due to time and cost savings except people who wish to explore nature or adventure across Indian Territory. Against this logic, only few hill stations attract crowd across boundaries and Kodaikanal is one among them. Let us explore the reasons behind this fact

Visitors from Kerala

Though the South Kerala people have easy access to the magnificent and famous hill station Munnar, its altitude is just 5200 feet whereas Kodaikanal stands much taller than it at an altitude of 6998 feet. Due to this altitude difference of about 1800 feet, the peak summer temperature of Kodaikanal is about 5°C to 10°C lower than at Munnar which is the primarily attraction towards Kodaikanal. Most of this region is equidistant from Munnar and Kodaikanal which augments their interest towards Kodaikanal – In fact both are on the Western Ghats at close distance but unfortunately the Ghat road via dense forest connecting both this hill station is prohibited for public use. Though the Northern Kerala has many hill stations, most of them are situated at much lower altitude than Munnar and the people from this region too love Kodaikanal for the above reasons. The diverse beauty of Kodaikanal with its famous lakes (Kodai Lake, Berijam Lake, Mannavanur Lake, etc), cascading waterfalls with close access to watch (Silver falls, etc), tiny villages with awesome meadow (like Poombarai) and vegetation, dissimilar forests (like Pine forest), assorted orchards (like pears, avocado, plums, etc), unique tourist attractions (like Coakers walk, Suicide Point, etc), caves and exceptional panoramic views of valley, western ghat, dam, plains, etc attracts the population from ‘God’s Own Country’ nick named state to love Kodaikanal beyond boundary – Because most of its hill stations have uniform attractiveness like tea plantation, coffee cover, rubber estates, etc

Visitors from Tamilnadu

For sure Ooty is a much popular, larger and diverse beauty hill station with better infrastructure like mountain rail connectivity while comparing to Kodaikanal but a considerable segment of people from Tamilnadu state prefers Kodaikanal over Ooty for different reasons stated below.

• The hill road from the foot hill to Kodaikanal is wider, easier, safer and faster to drive while comparing to the access way to Ooty from its foot hill which is having more dangerous curves, hairpin bends and high volume of traffic passing through it

• Kodaikanal witness landside, tree fall and road blockage very rarely while it is common in the Nilgiris during rainy seasons

• The variety of wild animals and its trespassing into residential zones are many folds higher in Ooty than Kodaikanal

• Kodaikanal is less commercialized and congested comparing to Ooty, etc Kodaikanal is very close to the southern and central part Tamilnadu providing much quicker access to a larger volume of people living in this region and it is their preferred choice for sure. In addition, Chennai is about 40 Km less distance from Kodaikanal with about 1.5 hours lower travel time while comparing to Ooty and hence a considerable segment of people living in Chennai and north eastern part of Tamilnadu also prefer Kodaikanal over Ooty for this reason and other advantages stated above.

Visitors from other States

Many famous religious places like Madurai, Rameshwaram, Srirangam, etc and unique tourist spots like Courtallam, Kanyakumari, etc are comparatively nearby to Kodaikanal than Ooty and the tourists from rest of India who wish to visit any of these locations prefer to amend their tour plan with Kodaikanal. With equal air connectivity of Ooty (Coimbatore airport to Ooty about 2.5 hours drive time), Kodaikanal (Madurai airport to Kodaikanal about 2 hours drive time) have a preference to this segment of population who wish to visit south most part of India.

Diverse Living Option

Unlike many hill stations in India, Kodaikanal is known for Mel malai villages (Upper hill villages) and Keel malai villages (Lower hill villages) at different altitude with dissimilar climate which makes it suitable for diverse age group to choose their living conditions, business and agricultural options. Similarly the Kodaikanal town has an Upper Lake Area and Lower Lake Area with different views of Kodaikanal Lake and access around it. This is definitely and edge to Kodaikanal over many other hill stations and there is no surprise of it being attractive not only to people across India but from outside the country too – For example, people from Israel regularly and frequently visit the ‘Vattakanal’ region of Kodaikanal. To understand this diversified spectrum of Kodaikanal real estate in detail or explore it, you can browse hillsandwills.com which is a specialty property portal exclusive for Indian hill stations and the favorite site to the Kodaikanal property owners to post property Ad for free in order to display it globally, reach buyers beyond state line, generate quick leads and sell property online – One of the largest collection of Kodai property display. For remotely located Kodaikanal property owners Hills & Wills offers unique and value added ‘A to Z sale Assistance’ in addition to list property.

Due to the above facts, Kodaikanal is being preferred by a larger volume of people in comparison to may hill stations around it. Hence there is an ever increasing search on websites related to hotel booking for accommodation as well as on property selling sites to buy and own their life time dream house, flat, villa, land, homestay, resort and commercial property in Kodaikanal. On the other hand, the hotels are on huge demand during weekends / season time and there are less people interested to list property for sale since their property is fetching attractive income and knowing that the gap between requirements to sale of property is steadily rising which lead to greater appreciation to their property in the recent past. To overcome this bottleneck, Hills & Wills also provides A to Z buying assistance to needy and serious buyer who is keen to buy property in Kodaikanal, be it summer home, retirement home, investment property, heritage bungalow, hotel or estate. Outstandingly,
Kodaikanal has more stable and pleasant climate during all seasons in contrast to many other hill stations which is the true beauty of the ‘Princess of Hills’ and the reason for it to get qualified to this tag.