Running about 800 km (500 mi) along the Bay of Bengal, Tamil Nadu is the heartland of South India. From Tamil Nadu's coast, with its gorgeous, bright-green rice fields and coconut and banana trees, the land rises through the low-lying Eastern Ghats (mountains) up to tea, coffee, and spice plantations in the Nilgiri Hills, and finally to the higher Western Ghats. More »
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