Heavy container truck and ksrtc bus Turning Seventh Hairpin bend Thamarassery Ghat Kerala india

Описание: #Thamarassery_Churam is a mountain pass in Kerala,India across the Western Ghats. "Churam" is the Malayalam word for mountain pass. Hence, it is more prominently called Thamarassery Churam. #wayanad_churam #Kerala #India

The Thamarassery Pass is the Western Ghats mountain road that connects Kozhikode with Wayanad #india . (Wayanad Pass), Churam is part of the National Highway 766 and is located in Kozhikode district. The dense forest on both sides of the road attracts tourists. This road was built to reach Wayanad on horseback and later became a vehicular road.

Starting from the foothills near Thamarassery in Kozhikode district, this 12 km long road has 9 hairpin bends. By the time you reach Lakkidi in Wayanad district, where this road ends, it reaches about 2,625 feet above sea level. If you look west from the view point at the ninth hairpin bend, you can see the overall sky view of Kozhikode district. Rare sunsets and seas 55 km away. Clouds and fog sometimes obscure the view. The pass is also known as the Interstate Highway to Mysore and Bangalore.

#Thamarassery Pass is a part of the Kozhikode Kollagal National Highway 766 which connects #Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. This route plays an important role in the industrial, commercial and tourism development of Kerala. This road passes through the Muthanga and Bandipur forest areas.

The Thamarassery Pass Road, [1] Tipu Sultan's military route, was developed by the British. It was the indigenous aborigines who showed the British engineer this way. It is said that a British engineer killed an aboriginal man named Karinthandan, who showed him the way, to gain fame for this invention. The chain tree believed to bind the soul of this adivasi is located at #Lakkidi in #Wayanad.