Araku Valley is a hill station situated in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, The natural beauty of this valley attracts tourits to visit here and enjoy the pleasant weather, hills and valleys. This valley is populated with tribal people, there is a tribal museum where one can see tribal handicrafts and their lifestyle.
Anantagiri, located along the lush undulating ranges of the Eastern Ghat is an ideal retreat for nature lovers and honeymooning couples. Though this hill station near Vizag is considered to be a ideal summer holiday destination, but the place is amazingly vibrant in the rains as well because this is when the green belt is vivid in color and the waterfalls are in their full resplendent glory.
Emerald green forest, twittering of birds and gushing of playful waterfall gives a heavenly look to this beautiful hill station of Andhra Pradesh. Driving through the coffee plantation enjoying gushing of waterfall from the mountains gives the unique charm of exhilarating beauty of the place.
Moreover, the drive from the city of Vizag to Anantagiri presents some cherish able scenes, ranging from mango groves and coffee plantation to dense forests.
BORRA CAVES
Borra Caves are located on the east coast of India, in Anantagiri Hills, Andhra Pradesh and very near to APTDC Hill resort of Araku Valley. The caves, considered to be the deepest in the country, are basically Karstic limestone structures extending to a depth of 262 feet.
The Borra Caves also known as Borra Guhalu in Telugu language ‘Borra’ means one thing that has bored into the bottom and ‘guhalu’ means that caves), are placed on the East Coast of India and the Ananthagiri hills of the Araku valley (with hill ranges elevation variable from 800 m (2,624.7 ft) to 1,300 m (4,265.1 ft)) of the Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh. The Borra Caves one of the biggest in the India at an elevation of concerning 705 m (2,313.0 ft), clearly exhibit a range of impressive speleothems(pictured) starting from very little too massive and irregularly shaped stalactites and stalagmites. The Borra Caves are primarily Karstic rock structures extending to a depth of 80 m (262.5 ft) (considered the deepest cave in India).