Running parallel to India’s coastline for 1600km from Gujarat to deep-south Tamil Nadu, the lush, forest-cloaked, Unesco-listed Western Ghats make up some of the most biodiverse territory on the globe. India’s second-highest mountain range is an untamed natural world of Jungle Book dreams, rich in unique, endemic flora and fauna, interspersed with carefully clipped, glittering-green tea plantations and once-splendid hill stations drenched in Raj–era history.
Tea, trains & relics from the Raj: exploring India’s Western Ghats
