Kerala Wildlife Travel with Kerala Travel Tourism offers you an opportunity to discover a unique green world that is a storehouse of exotic flora, palm trees, dense leafy vegetation, deciduous, evergreen and semi-evergreen forests. Gurgling mountain streams, silver streams and lovely panoramic vistas greet you as you enjoy your wildlife travel to Kerala, South India.
Luxuriant greens, abundant water bodies and extremely favorable climatic conditions make it possible for a large variety of wild animals to make the Kerala forests their home. Kerala, South India is the natural home to animals like elephants, wild dogs, tigers, tahr, flying squirrel, lion-tailed macaque, leopards, mouse deer, gaur, sambhar, porcupines, sloth bear, barking deer, jungle cats, otters, reptiles and a large number of bird species like the Brown-crowned Pigmy Woodpecker, Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker, White-cheeked Barbet, Common Pintail, Crimson-breasted Barbet, Spot-billed Duck, Cotton Teal, Green Bee-eater, Pied Crested Cuckoo, Common Koel, Parakeets, Swifts, Owls, Pigeons, Doves, Purple Moorhen, Common Coot, Painted Snipe, Plovers, Gulls, Kites, Kestrels, Cormorants, Darters, Orioles, Crows, Swallows, Minivets, Flycatchers, Warblers, Bulbuls, Sunbirds, Babblers, Larks et al.
Some of the popular wildlife sanctuaries located in Kerala, South India are the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary, Thekkady Wildlife Sanctuary, Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary, Peechi Wildlife Sanctuary, Silent Valley National Park, Eravikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajamala Wildlife Sanctuary, Shendurni Wildlife Sanctuary, Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary and the Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary.
The most frequently visited Wildlife Sanctuary in South India is Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is located around Periyar Lake, often regarded as the nucleus of the Tiger Reserve. The Lake was initially a reservoir built to supply water for irrigation in Tamil Nadu. This area became a forest reserve in 1899 and got acclaimed as Nellikkampetty Sanctuary in 1934. In 1950, the Park's area was extended to 777 square kilometers.
Tourists visit the sanctuary to hoping to see its resident tigers. The Tigers feed on sambar, Indian bison and wild boar. The cattle in the fringe area also forms an important prey base.
Activities in Periyar
Nature Walk - The guided day trek
Walk in communion with nature and view the wildlife from close quarters. Enjoy the fragrance of flowers and moisture in the air touching your face gently, rendering a cooling effect. The tours cover an approximately 4 to 5 kilometers path. Not more than 5 persons can join the tour. The tour timings are 7.00 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. and between 2.00 p.m. and 3.00 p.m. During this three-hour journey a trained tribal guide will accompany the tourists.
The Periyar Tiger Trail - Adventure trekking and camping
The programme covers a distance of 20 to 35 kilometers. The programme conducting team is a group of poachers who have turned protectors of the forests. These strong people have good knowledge of the terrain and animals dwelling in the forest. Tour programmes are for 1 night/2 days and 2 nights/3 days. Tourists might get a chance to encounter Nilgiri langur, giant squirrel, elephant and who knows, even the tiger. Visitors who are medically fit and aged 15 - 65 are advised to take the tiger trail.
Border Hiking - Protection oriented range hiking
This is a conservation oriented hard trek taking up a full day. The trekking starts at 8 o' clock in the morning and ends in the evening. At an altitude of 900 meters to 1300 meters, the trekkers can have a glimpse of the lofty escarpments bordering the park watershed and the vast plains down.
Bamboo Rafting -Dawn to dusk range hiking
This is a dawn to dusk range hiking and rafting programme starting at 8 am from the boat landing into rafts made of bamboos. The tourists will be taken through some of the richest forest tracts of Periyar Tiger Reserve. Rafting can be done upto three hours. Enjoy the sight of forest-clad hills.
Jungle Patrol Shepherding the jungle
As a venture to protect the forest, night patrolling was started by the authorities. However, tourists can join this activity as well. The trekking could be at any time between 7 p.m. and 4 a.m. Because this activity involves much risk, people who do not fear night and wilderness should undertake it. An armed guard accompanies the guests.
Tribal Heritage
Mannans is one of the oldest indigenous group of people to inhabit Periyar Tiger Reserve. Tribal Heritage Museum is built inside the Mannan settlement. The museum features articles that provide an insight into the culture of Mannans.
Jungle Inn - Jungle in the night
The forest cottage at Kokkara is located about an hour walk from the Forest check post. For a couple that wants to enjoy the night in the jungle, this place is a heaven. The check in / check out time are 3 p.m. and 9 a.m.
There is a village near the sanctuary. Amazing bird species dwell in the village, which you can view on a tour to Periyar National Park.
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