Thamarassery Churam Ghatt road
How to reach there ?
By train – Nearest railway station Kozhikode
By air – Nearest airport Kozhikode
By road Kozhikode to
Thamarassery to Vayanad bus or taxi
What does Thamarassery Ghatt offer you ?
It’s gonna be your most
spectacular experience and immersion to nature,
14 kilometres of mountain
passes covered in fog and deep forest either of the sides and deep valleys
which will frighten your soul. Thamarassry
Ghatt road has 14 hairpin curves and each hairpin turning will certainly
give a jerk in your bowl. There are many viewpoints where you can stop your
vehicle and enjoy the beauty of the
mountain pass and finally, you can reach
Malabar's most beautiful queen, Vayanad and you can stay in any number of resorts and enjoy amazing
destinations
The haunting horror story of the mountain pass.
The story starts from 1700
to 1750
This Ghatt road actually
connects Bepur port in Kozhikode to Mysore and root to Coorg of Karnataka at
the time of Britishers Coorg and Vayanad were the home for expensive spices
like cardamom, coffee and pepper.
Tamarassery was deep forest and mountain
slopes Britishers found no way to get the cargo to Bepur port all their
engineers failed to find a way through the deep forest and through the hills.
And they found that local Aboriginal people used to cross the forest easily and
come back so they asked the help of a local tribe head Karinthandan Moopan
(chief), a tribal leader from the Paniya tribe in Wayanad.
He worked with the British
army and found the Ghatt road which connects the vayanad the so-called
Thamarassery ghatt road. But the end of the story the crooked Britishers
thought if the tribal head lives the credit of the mammoth work would be in
his name, not the British government so they took him in the top of the hill
and shoot him and he died alone and unnoticed in deep mountain forest , and still the locals believe that his soul is
wandering around the mountain pass and causing vehicles which pass through the
mountain to meet accidents and fall in to the deep valley and the history also says during 1890
to 1900 , there were a series of accidents happened in the mountain pass
and finally the soul of karinthadan is
overpowered and tied to a tree with iron chain, you can see the tree along with chain in Adivaram
Lakidi viewpoint still now and it’s a
temple now but still people stop over here when they pass to the mountain and
pray for safe journey
This story is being made as
a movie in Malayalam in the same name as the tribal head Karithadan.
And I promise you will never
regret visiting Thamarassery Ghatt road
and majestic Vayanad.
