Wayanad

Why this icon Chembra peak's heart-shaped lake, Hridaya Saras. Source: keralatourism.org

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The story

Morning on Chembra: from the trail above it, the heart-shaped lake lies on its grassy shelf below, shola forest tucked in the folds around it and the tea estates spread far below, while a traveller with a trekking pole points it out.

Why this picture

Hridaya Saras, the heart-shaped lake that never dries, sits on a shelf halfway up Chembra Peak (2,100 m), Wayanad's highest; its shape shows from the trail that climbs on above it, through montane grassland with shola forest in the folds, up from the tea estates of Meppadi. Just after the monsoon the grass is at its greenest.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

A flock of birds crosses the whole sky and clouds drift past; the lake's water lines run; butterflies flit over the grass; the long grass and the shola sway; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Mustard Leaf #E2E418

Jade #04B495

Paddy Green #B2D234

Wayanad takes Paddy Green #B2D234, one of the three Fields colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Wayanad

A second scene: another true moment at Wayanad, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

A late-afternoon jeep safari in Muthanga's bamboo forest: close to the camera an elephant feeds among the bamboo at the roadside, further along the red forest road a mother and her calf stand and wait, chital graze at the forest's edge, and a traveller standing in the back of the stopped open jeep photographs them, the sun low over the ridges.

Why this moment

The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (Muthanga and Tholpetty) is part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, its moist deciduous forest thick with bamboo; jeep safaris run in the mornings and late afternoons, and elephants, gaur and deer are seen on them. Asian elephants feed on bamboo and cross the forest roads in family herds, chital graze the clearings, and the jeeps stop and wait at a distance.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

Birds cross the sky; the bamboo clumps sway from the root; the elephants and the chital shift as they feed; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Wayanad in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Wayanad, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

A wild elephant in Wayanad's bambooOf the place
Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (344 km², under Project Elephant): wild Asian elephants in the bamboo and moist deciduous forest of Muthanga and Tholpetty, seen from the jeep tracks — Wayanad's other great sight.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Gandhakasala riceOf the place
Gandhakasala, Wayanad's scented rice (GI, 2010): small, short, bold golden grains with a sandalwood fragrance, grown by the district's tribal farmers and kept for feasts — weddings, ghee rice.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Wayanad 1

Detailed icons from the library that name Wayanad among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Every detailed icon

Malabar whistling thrush

Say hello to Wayanad's Zobus

Zobu in Wayanad's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

Their faces, poses and moves 17

Wayanad's Zobus from the rig: a face for a profile picture, a pose for a story, a move as a still; each opens its file. Every Zobu in motion

Faces 10

Show all 10

Poses 7

The animals of Wayanad

Animals and birds the research behind Wayanad's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Asian elephant (wild)Elephas maximus indicus
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Wayanad needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city map, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

46 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included

Profile

Wayanad’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Wayanad’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG

Icon

An object: flat landscape colours. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVG PNG Mono SVG

Loop

A breeze sways the field stalks at its base. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

The symbol becomes Wayanad and turns back — a Lottie loop for stories, the app and the web.

Lottie JSON

Display picture

Circle-safe: the colour, the icon and the name — for chats, socials and the app.

SVG PNG

Lockup

The horizontal lockup, with Wayanad under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Wayanad’s symbols, each in colour and in the city grey, as SVG and PNG — in the zip’s symbols folder.

See them with their files

Zobus

Wayanad’s Zobu pair, still and alive (idle, hello, hop), waving still and as a face (a profile picture) — in the zip’s zobus folder.

Female SVG Male SVG

Also made for Wayanad 4

The rest of what the library holds for Wayanad: the pattern of its region, the card its links share, each opening its own file or gallery.

The map we made for Wayanad

Seven things to do around Zostel Plus Wayanad, each in its true direction with its distance and time from the door — a map made for your phone.

Climb the watchtower for sunsetKarapuzha Dam · 18.5 km · 45 min drive
Spot elephants from an open jeepMuthanga · 46.4 km · 110 min drive
Trek to a view of MeenmuttyNeelimala · 28.1 km · 65 min drive
Trek through tea to a waterfallKanthanpara Falls · 13.6 km · 35 min drive
Taste tribal food at En OoruEn Ooru · 22.1 km · 55 min drive
Trek up to the heart-shaped lakeChembra · 4.5 km · 60 min hike
Climb Kurumbalakotta above the mistKurumbalakotta · 31.8 km · 75 min drive

Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

1080 × 1350, for a phone or a story. Distances and times from Zostel Plus Wayanad, measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

On the map

Wayanad is in Kerala, India — one of the 84 places where Zostel is live.

Region: Kerala
Country: India
Where: 11.69° N, 76.13° E
Landscape: Fields

Make its poster Every place

Wayanad · Kerala · India

Climb Chembra. Halfway up, the lake is a heart.

The story

Why this picture

The motion

Colour

Another moment in Wayanad

The story

Why this moment

The motion

In the picture

Its files

Wayanad in symbols

Also drawn for Wayanad 1

Say hello to Wayanad's Zobus

Their faces, poses and moves 17

Faces 10

Poses 7

The animals of Wayanad

The kit

Also made for Wayanad 4

The map we made for Wayanad

On the map