Valparai, Tamil Nadu A plantation town, a hill station, a biodiversity hotspot and a tropical rainforest all rolled into one, Valparai is located in the Anamalai range of the Western Ghats. There are patches of tropical evergreen forests and then there are rolling tea estates. But it is here that endangered and endemic species like the Lion-Tailed Macaque and Nilgiri Tahr are found. If you are lucky, you can chance upon birds such as the Great Hornbill. And if you believe in legends, an old man called Velu claims to have “seen god” in the human form here. You should probably believe him, because in that rich dense canopy, there is a possibility that God does exist somewhere.