Odisha

Eastern Ghats escarpments, coffee valleys and pristine coast.

Eastern Ghats

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Trails & landmarks

Odisha's highest summit in the Chandragiri-Pottangi range — Bondo tribal villages along a forest jeep trail to the top.

Mythological Parashurama hill in Gajapati — a steep two-day climb past Yudhisthira and Bhima temple ruins.

A 244 m sword-thin plunge — the Khandadhar stream cuts a single ribbon down a Bonai sandstone wall.

The Machkund river plunges 175 m over the Andhra-Odisha escarpment — Bondo and Gadaba villages line the access track.

The 'Kashmir of Odisha' — pine-and-coffee slopes in Kandhamal that occasionally see frost in mid-winter.

Asia's longest earthen dam holds a 743 sq km lake — Cattle Island, migratory bar-headed geese and a sunset jetty.