Ambanad Hills or ''Ambanad'' is a hill station in Punalur Taluk in the eastern part of

Kollam district Kollam district (), (formerly Quilon district) is one of 14 List of districts in Kerala, districts of the state of Kerala, India. The district has a cross-section of Kerala's natural attributes; it is endowed with a long coastline, a major Lac ...

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. This is one among the few tea and orange plantation areas in Kollam district. Ambanad Hills is in

Aryankavu Aryankavu is a village located in the Kollam district of the Indian state of Kerala. It lies close to the border between Kerala and Tamil Nadu near Thenmala. It is also one of the famous pilgrimage sites associated with the legend of Sabarimala ...

panchayath, about 12 km away from Kazhuthurutty. The place is a famous tourist destination in South Kerala and is popularly known as 'Mini Munnar'. The tea estate in Ambanad hills is set up by the British people it is the only tea estate in

. The plantation and estate is controlled and managed by Travancore Rubber and Tea Company. The estate falls in Clove belt of India (Kollam - Nagercoil) and is one of the largest Clove estate in the country. It was one of the first places in country to which

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and South ...

introduced clove in 1800s. The crop harvesting requires skilled labour and hence every year, the migrant labourers from

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...

will stay at the estate and work for nearly a month for harvesting the clove.

Attractions

* Estate Bungalow with night stay * Kudamutti waterfall * View points * Tea Factory with British era equipments * Three lakes with pedal boating * Nedumpara Peak

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{{Kollam district Hill stations in Kerala Tourist attractions in Kollam district

Attractions

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