Valparai is a breathtaking hill station and taluk located in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, perched at an elevation of about 3,500 feet above sea level on the Anaimalai Hills range of the Western Ghats.
​Unlike many historic towns on the plains that evolved over millennia through ancient dynasties, Valparai’s history is a dramatic saga of 19th-century colonial enterprise, monumental deforestation, and engineering triumphs that transformed an impenetrable rainforest into one of India’s premier tea and coffee plantation hubs.