kakkayam camping

Kakkayam is 65 Km from Kozhikkode (calicut). Via balussery. The drive to kakkayam is really a pleasure smell of the wild touch your nostrils during the trip. Wild elephants are seen almost everyday on the roads (at night). The itinerary is as follows.

Day-1

06:30 Hrs - start from Kozhikkode

10:30 Hrs - Breakfast on the way and reach Kakkayam damsite.

11:30 Hrs - Trek to uralkuzhi water falls.

12:30 Hrs - Packed lunch serving.

14:30 Hrs - Trek to campsite

16:30 Hrs - Camping

Day-2

08:00 Hrs - Trekking back to kakkayam after Break fast.

10:00 Hrs - Travel back to Kozhikkode.

If you are a bird watcher, butterfly watcher then you will be the most contented person when you leave.

Silent Valley National Park

Silent Valley is an Evergreen foest in Kerala at Palakkad district. It is just 60 Km away from Palakkad. We could enjoy a 2 Hour jeep safari to the middle of the Evergreen forst, trek to the bhavani river, walk through the hanging bridge in the river and enjoy the plushness of the mother nature. The itenary is as follows.

Day 1

0700 Hrs - pickup from palakkad and travel to silent valley via mannarkad.

1000 Hrs - checkin at silent valley entrance (mukkali) and start the safari to silent valley National park (22 Km)

1200 Hrs - Reach Silent Valley National Park and climb the watch tower. From here you will get a birds eye view of the                                National park and could watch some wild animals wandering there.

1300 Hrs - Trek to Bahvani river (2 Km) .

1400 Hrs - Trek back to park.

1445 Hrs - Travel back to Silent Valley ( Mukkali)

1630 Hrs - Reach Mukkali

1645 Hrs - safari to the jungle lodge (6 Km)

1745 Hrs - Check in at Jungle Lodge

Day 2

1000 Hrs - Checkout from jungle lodge and travel back to Palakkad

About Silent valley National park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Valley_National_Park

Silent Valley National Park (Malayalam: സൈലന്‍റ് വാലീ നാഷണല്‍ പാര്‍ക്ക്), (Core zone: 236.74 square kilometres (91 sq mi)) is located in the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad Districtin Kerala, South India. The area in this national park was historically explored in 1847 by the botanist Robert Wight,^[1] and is associated with Hindu legend.^[2]

The park is one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western Ghats montane rain forests and tropical moist evergreen forest in India. Contiguous with the proposed Karimpuzha National Park (225 km²) to the north and Mukurthi National Park (78.46 km²) to the north-east, it is the core of the Nilgiri International Biosphere Reserve (1,455.4 km²), and is part of The Western Ghats World Heritage Site, Nilgiri Sub-Cluster (6,000⁺ km²) under consideration by UNESCO.^[3]

Plans for a hydroelectric project that threatened the parks high diversity of wildlife stimulated an environmentalist Social Movement in the 1970s called Save Silent Valley which resulted in cancellation of the project and creation of the park in 1980. The visitors' centre for the park is at Sairandhri.

This park is the house of the Largest number of Liontailed macaque and different species of flaura nad fauna.

Nearest Airport : Coimbatore : 80 Km

Nearest Bus station : mannarkad (25 Km)

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Wild life camp at gavi

The journey to Gavi, is as always exciting to me. This time it was a camp, a wildlife camp. I had never been there, so I was even more excited. We had tried do many times to participate in that camp, but was in vain due to many reasons, bad climate (rain) or wild elephant on the trek path, summarising we were unlucky. Ok lemme just brief you about the program. This camp is deep inside the Periyar Tiger Reserve or in short PTR. This reserve claim the largest tiger sighting in Kerala.
for reaching this camp you need to trek around 4km through the deep dark forest, and believe me that's worth a trek. Any time you could expect the giant of the jungle in front of you. So watch your steps, listen to the sounds...keep your nostrils open.
Gavi is 34 kilometers away from kumily. For entering kumily you need to take special permissions from the forest department. An Indian citizen is charged INR 25 and foreigner INR 300. A still camera is charged INR 25 and video camera INR 300. Travelling around 12 km from kumily towards vandiperiyar, take a left turn towards moozhiyar (sign boards are there). Another 8 km you will reach vallakkadavu Forest checkpost. You need to remit all the fees I have mentioned earlier here.