Kodaikanal is a hill station which is located in Dindigul district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
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16 Facts About Kodaikanal
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Kodaikanal is referred to as the "Princess of Hill stations" and has a long history as a retreat and tourist destination.
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Kodaikanal was established in 1845 as a refuge from the high temperatures and tropical diseases of the plains.
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Kodaikanal is a summer forest, and it is a place that the first missionaries used as a refuge to escape the overbearing and mosquito-ridden heat of the plains – a place that they would have counted on seeing in the summer.
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Kodaikanal could mean "the end of the forest" which makes poetic and geographical sense – Kodaikanal is at the crown of the Palani Hills and is effectively surrounded and protected by thick forests.
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Kodaikanal could mean "forest of creepers" or the forest of vines.
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Town of Kodaikanal sits on a plateau above the southern escarpment of the upper Palani Hills at 2,133 metres, between the Parappar and Gundar Valleys.
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Kodaikanal has a monsoon-influenced subtropical highland climate.
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The factory sold much of this waste to a junkyard in Kodaikanal and dumped large quantities in the forest behind the factory.
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Kodaikanal has several clubs and civil society organizations operating for social, charitable and environmental goals.
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Kodaikanal has several social service societies which promote local trade and increase employment of rural villagers in the town's periphery by participating in its tourism fuelled growth.
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The Made-in-India tagged products from Kopedeg are unique to Kodaikanal and are targeted at foreign tourists who regularly buy them as souvenirs.
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Kodaikanal has several scenic natural attractions which attract visitors and make it a destination for newlyweds.
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Kodaikanal Lake is an artificial, roughly star-shaped 45-hectare lake built in 1863.
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Kodaikanal changed her name to Leelavathi and married Ponnambalam Ramanathan.
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Almost all distances from Kodaikanal are calculated with the lake as the central point of reference.
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