Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Nilgiri Mountain Railway Nilgiri Mountain Railway in the Nilgiris and Coimbatore districts of Tamil Nadu in southern India is a metre gauge railway line (1,000 mm, 3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) built during the British colonial era in 1908. Nilgiris Mountain Railways…
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Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve is located in the Nilgiris Hills of southern India in Western Ghats. It is an UNESCO-declared International Biosphere Reserve. A biosphere reserve is an ecosystem with unusual scientific interest and natural habitats of interest, thus needs preservation…
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