The Stanmore bungalow is a sprawling 7500 square feet British built bungalow located in Valparai, a plantation town on the fringes of the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary. Valparai is located 3800 feet above sea level on the Anamalai Hills, a mountain range on the Western Ghats, 100 kilometers from the nearest airport, Coimbatore. A small plantation town, the people of Valparai are mainly plantation workers who live within the tea, coffee and cinchona plantations that make the area.