Places to Visit in Uthamapalayam

From the 2nd-century Grand Anicut to the vast Stanley Reservoir at Mettur, Tamil Nadu’s dams are both the lifelines of its river plains and some of its finest scenic outings.

A mist-wrapped range of tea and cardamom on the Tamil Nadu–Kerala border, where the clouds come down to the estates and dawn breaks over what many call the highest tea garden on earth.

A monsoon-fed waterfall on the forest edge, a fertile valley that calls itself the Grape City of the south, and a tea estate billed among the world’s highest — three faces of the Western Ghats in one Theni district.