Hill Stations in South India

The most common vision of a honeymoon place in South India is one that covers virgin mountains, gushing waterfall, green valleys and immense natural beauty.  For others, Hill stations are an escape from the Scorching heat. There are many hill stations in South India. Being from Bangalore (about a km from sea level), a hill station should have a minimum of 1500m elevation to qualify. beyond this being an artificial barrier, I have witnessed too many hill stations where the heat did not allow us to step outside in the afternoons. So while any cold in the night place works for the crowd that likes to sip booze, for common folk like me, a trip to a hill station should not be a waste of money. 

Therefore, I decided to seek the help of R here.

  # One time install of the packages required for this task  
install.packages("raster")  
install.packages("sp")
#Now load these packages
library(raster)  
library(sp)  
# First, get the elevation map of India
elevation <- getData("alt", country = "IND")
#Now define South India's Range   
 e <- extent(73, 83, 9, 14)  
#Create  anew Data file for south India using the above two
 south <- crop(elevation,e)  
#Publish the map
 plot(south)  

So you get a map like the one below .

Thus, apart from Udhagamandalam and Kodaikanal, the areas large enough to qualify as hill stations are in the vicinity of Kemmangundi and Kudremukha.