An elephant with prominent tusks, painted in white, draws the attention of visitors first at the rock art site at Pathimalai in Kumittipathi, a village around 30 km from Coimbatore city.
Believed to be around 3,000 years old, these cave paintings are among the important rock arts in the Kongu region. Drawn with white pigments, the paintings depict an elephant, ther (chariot, some say it is a peacock), and the lives of early dwellers of the region. While most of the other rock art sites are situated in inaccessible areas and deep inside forests, one can easily walk into the Pathimalai cave at the bottom of a rocky hillock surrounded by farmland.
