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Priyadarshini Hills

Priyadarshini Hills at Pancharakolly near Mananthavady combines Wayanad’s tea landscape with community-based tourism and outdoor activities. Priyadarshini Tea Environs includes a tea estate, factory and museum, while visitors can also experience plantation walks, tea tasting, trekking and viewpoints. The cooperative project is closely linked with the rehabilitation and livelihoods of tribal communities in northern Wayanad.

DistrictWayanad
PIN Code670645
Place NamePriyadarshini Hills
Place TypeTea Estate
LocalityPancharakolly, Mananthavady
TalukMananthavady

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About Priyadarshini Hills

Priyadarshini Hills, better known through the Priyadarshini Tea Environs at Pancharakolly near Mananthavady, is a distinctive tea, nature and community-tourism destination in Wayanad district, Kerala. Kerala Tourism describes the destination as a composite experience that includes a tea estate, tea factory, tea museum, resort facilities and surrounding forest landscape. Visitors can learn how tea is processed, join plantation walks and tea-tasting experiences, or explore outdoor activities such as trekking, hiking, camping and mountain biking.

DTPC Wayanad identifies Vishwas Point as a high trekking point within the estate landscape and notes the destination’s association with MTB Kerala mountain-biking events. Priyadarshini also has an important social history: the cooperative was established to support the rehabilitation and livelihoods of bonded tribal communities in Wayanad. Official Kerala records place Priyadarshini Tea Environs at Pancharakolly in the Mananthavady municipal area.

The combination of tea culture, scenery and community history makes it one of northern Wayanad’s more unusual tourism experiences.

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Priyadarshini Hills or Priyadarshini Tea Environs is a community-based tea tourism destination at Pancharakolly, Mananthavady, Wayanad, featuring a tea estate, factory, museum, tasting, trekking and a cooperative linked with tribal rehabilitation.

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Nammude Keralam Last checked 2026-08-07

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