Thick forests often accompany the route which adds to the splendour. Tall thickets of bamboo, dark and damp rain forests playing hide and seek with the glittering rays of the sun, frighteningly hanging rocks, deep ravines, grand aerial views of the low lands as the train ascends, imposing massifs overhead, panoramic view of tea gardens, majestic eucalyptus groves....all almost untouched from the nuances of modernisation.