One Of The Most Calming Place Maramalai - Kanyakumari

Maramalai, southern part of Western Ghats, is contiguous with KM Tiger reserve, and a small pocket with in it was released for clove plantations in early days.The plantation was under single ownership for long and later it was disposed off, part by part, and now there are 42 or so divisions.The residents of the place are the workers of the plantations and the caretakers. Clove is a seasonal crop and the presence of the estate owners, at the place, will be only during the season.Apart from that, they are occasional visitors, for paying the wages, and other such activities.

 

A glimpse of trip to the tips of Maramalai Mount, where we have an ancestral clove farm.The mount is situated in the southern part of the Western Ghats and is situated within a reserve forest.Not being a tourist destination nature it is the best place to get immersed in nature with absolutely no connectivity.  
This place is one of the most calming places.

Though you can see expected elephants in the track, you were to satisfy with the sighting of a lone mouse deer. After a 40 minute drive along the thick woods, you entered the clove plantations. Another 20 minutes took us to the gate of the office cum residence of the care taker of ‘Star Plantations’.The temperature had dropped so you can wear into sweaters.Night was very cold. It is one of the three major water sources to Perunchanni reservoir, the other two being Kalikesham River from Muthukuli and Masupathi River from Maramalai.The confluence of the threesome, after the reservoir is called ‘Paraliyaar’.Paraliyar later joins Kodayar at Moovattumukham near Thiruvattar, named Kuzhithura River there after, joining Arabian Sea at Thengapattinam near Marthandam.

POLLUTION IN MAARAMALAI The rubber factory in kiriparaireleases the formic acid which mixes with the  water in perunjani dam  and contaminates that water.The waste from paulkuzham estate mixes with water in river tharuvai and reaches pazhaiyaru.Mayilaru rubber factory wastes mixes with pechiparrai dam. Due  to  the  above  mentioned  pollution  natural  fish  vegetation  gets destroyed.Thus the KK dist. is losing a lot of fishes from this areas.