The district in pictures, with the month attached

A gallery is only useful if it tells you when the picture was taken. Thirparappu in August and Thirparappu in March are two different places, and a photograph of the falls in full flow above a March itinerary is a small lie that a lot of tour websites tell. So every image here carries the month it was shot where we know it, and where the shot is from a licensed library rather than our own camera we say so. The sunrise pictures are from December and January, when the horizon is clearest; the green hill pictures are from the wet months.

We have grouped them the way we plan trips rather than alphabetically: the town and the two rocks, the temple and heritage circuit, the western hills and water, the coast, and the vehicles you will actually sit in. If a picture makes you want to add a place to your day, check the relevant package or the taxi route for the distance first. Several of the prettiest places here are a long way from the others.