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For more than a year, Valliyamma’s hut has been marked illegal, and a board carrying the word ‘sealed’ is hanging on the walls. Revenue and forest authorities have found her hut and the agricultural land as encroachments in the proposed Sigur Elephant Corridor, the lone connection link between Western and Eastern Ghats’ forests. Valliyamma, who ekes out a living by planting vegetables, paddy, sugarcane, watermelon, and millets on her land and one-acre additional leased government land, is now facing a peculiar problem. A widow hailing from the backward Adi Dravidar community, she lives along with her 15-year-old granddaughter (the only surviving close relative) in a small hut located inside two acres and 16 cents (2.16 acres) farmland legally bought by her late husband 45 years ago, after verifying all the revenue and ownership documents.

In her late sixties, Valliyamma Murugan, who lives close to the ancient Mariamman Temple at Bokkapuram forest village near Masinagudi in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu, has reasons to believe that her gods have stopped smiling. The corridor links different habitats and is thus critical for maintaining a viable elephant population in the region. With Nilgiris, the triangular mountain block, forming the link between the Western and the Eastern Ghats, the elephant migration corridors become ecologically very important. The dispute, which has gone through years of litigation in the courts, got intense after the area to be acquired for the corridor was expanded, displacing those whose lives and livelihoods depended on the lands that were being earmarked for the animals. You can enjoy real Sri Lankan hospitality at its best.The recent conflict between the owners of a homestay and a male elephant in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, that led to the death of the elephant, has again brought into focus the tussle over land that is being earmarked for elephant movement in the area. And please give our heartiest thanks to all the staff of your hotel who provided us with a memorable stay.! Overall I recommend this place as an Eco friendly resort with Luxury and wonderful place to stay at Sigiriya.!I'm sure that you will not be disappointed at this place. And Thank you Manoj for handling the final reservation process as well.

I must specially thank the reservation team,as we had to cancel our booking in 2 previous occasions due to family emergencies and had to rescheduled,they helped a lot and made that process smooth. We didnt have any detailed booklets(Hotel facilities etc) in the suite,which you find in other star class hotel rooms.So we had to call and ask most of the time. Food was not great but can say as Average.And I think they should pay much more attention to Restaurant inside atmosphere as I thought they can do with little more star class arrangements, as i noticed some stuff piled up in the vicinity. And you should meet Wejeyratna,the Head Bell person, such a wonderful guy :).He s one of the oldest persons with service of around 12 years I think.You can ask him all the history of this place! All the service from the check-in to our checkout was wonderful without any problem or complain.

Staff was very friendly,always carried a nice smile, and we were very satisfied with their service.And they helped us a lot with our little kid to arrange his needs as well. We stayed with our little son who's 7 months old and he seems to enjoyed the stay as well :).He seems specially interested in Peacocks who keep visiting the hotel grounds! :) And the hotel grounds are very scenic and wonderful.Surrounding is very picturesque and if you are a nature lover you will be very satisfied. We booked Romantic suite and it was very cosy ,furnished well and beautiful. We stayed at Elephant Corridor during 28th/29th Nov(Last weekend) and it was a wonderful stay.