Incridable_beauty_of_india
Hello friends ! Today i am sharing my personal experience about incridable beauty of India where I visited some places. Munnar Hill station A view of Munnar Tea plantation at Munnar The region has been inhabited by hunter-gatherer tribals like the Malayarayan and Muthuvan for thousands of years. [7] In the early days, only Tamils and few Malayalis lived there. They were brought as workers in the tea plantations. Tradition states that Colonel Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, was the first British person to pass through Munnar during Tippu Sultan's campaign in Travancore, but this is unsubstantiated. The first survey of the terrain was undertaken by Benjamin Swayne Ward in 1816–1817, who followed the Periyar into the Western Ghats and established a camp at the confluence of three rivers, from which the name of Munnar is derived. [8] It was to be nearly 50 years later that Sir Charles Trevelyan , Governor of Madras, instr...