THEKKADY

Periyar Wild Life Sanctuary-Thekkady


The Periyar Wildlife sanctuary is spread across 777 sq km, of which 360 sq km is thick evergreen forest, the Periyar wild Life Sanctuary was declared a Tiger Reserve in 1978. Noted for its geomorphology, diversity of wildlife and scenic beauty, is one of the world's most fascinating natural wildlife reserves.

THEKKADY

Thekkady

Thekkady
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A small shop

Way to vagamon

Way to vagamon
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Vagamon is located at about 60 km from Kottayam and 65km from Idukki in Kerala. Situated at an elevation of about 1100 meter above the sea level, Vagamon is picturesquely surrounded by three chains of hills namely Thangal hill, Kurisumala and Murugan hill. Hills beautifully covered with green grasses, velvet lawns and the cool mountain air make Vagamon a perfect holiday retreat

Way to vagamon

Vagamon

Vagamon is an enchanting hill station located on the Idukki-Kottayam border, dotted with gardens and beautiful meadows.

Vagamon---It is a very ideal tourist spot surrounded by the greenery of tea gardens, beautiful meadows, deep puzzling valleys and dales. The enchanting hill station dotted with tea gardens will soon be one of India's foremost eco-tourism projects.

Vagamon


Beautiful meadows.

Vagamon .
Grass covered hills.

Vagamon pine forest- kerala

Situated at about 6 KM from Vagamon town

A View Of The Pine Forests Of Vagamon.

Some pictures of Army show 2008, at Trivandrum

MERMAID [Matsyakanyaka]
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The huge Mermaid sculpture (Matsyakanyaka) reclining against a seashell gazing at the azure sky. . Built by one of the famous sculptors of Kerala, Kanayi Kunjiraman who is widely acclaimed for his huge, larger than life size figures.

[ONAM] POOKKALAM
------------------------ Pookalam is an intricate and colourful arrangement of flowers laid on the floor. Tradition of decorating Pookalam is extremely popular in Kerala and is followed as a ritual in every household during ten-day-long Onam celebrations.

Wind farm

Wind farms at muppanthal in Tamilnadu
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You are going to see some photographs of wind farms below.I took these photos during my journey to muppanthal temple last week.Driving is a pleasure through these roads.The beauty of mountains and the greenary here will take your mind to a different level.


A windmill is a machine that is powered by the energy of the wind. It is designed to convert the energy of the wind into more useful forms using rotating blades or sails. The term also refers to the structure it is commonly built on. In much of Europe, windmills served originally to grind grains, though later applications included pumping water and, more recently, generation of electricity. Recent electricity-generating versions are referred to as WIND TURBINES

A wind farm is a group of WIND TURBINES in the same location used for production of electric power. Individual turbines are interconnected with a medium voltage (usually 34.5 kV) power collection system and communications network. At a substation, this medium-voltage electrical current is increased in voltage with a transformer for connection to the high voltage transmission system. A large wind farm may consist of a few dozen to about 100 individual wind tubines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles (square kilometers), but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other purposes. A wind farm may be located off-shore to take advantage of strong winds blowing over the surface of an ocean or lake.

A proposed solution for wind energy and other intermittent power sources is to create a supergrid of interconnected wind farms.