If you weren't in the rolling high ranges of Munnar in 2018, you missed a spectacle that the planet only offers once every 4,380 days. But for those of us who were there, standing on the misty slopes of Eravikulam National Park as the hills turned into a carpet of sapphire velvet, we didn't just witness a bloom. We witnessed a calendar.
The next mass blooming event is expected then. (Though some botanists argue that climate change is shifting the cycle, 2030 remains the target.) munnar neelakurinji 2018
The Kerala Tourism Department went into overdrive. Social media hashtags like #Neelakurinji2018 and #MunnarBlue began trending months in advance. Unlike the 2006 bloom (which was relatively low-key), the 2018 bloom arrived in the age of the smartphone. If you weren't in the rolling high ranges