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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
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)
