Thekkady-Periyar National Park

Warriror Pose

On the 2^nd day of my family trip, we started from Munnar early morning to cover few side scenes and finally reached Thekkady-Periyar wildlife sanctuary. It is known as one of the world's most fascinating natural wildlife reserves. The main adventure inside sanctuary is to take a boat ride in the Periyar lake. It is conducted by the forest department and Kerala Tourism. It takes us inside the jungle and we may witness animals roaming around in the wild without any boundations. Deer, wild elephants, Incredible birds are common but what it difficult is to get a good view of Tiger, Lion and other wildies. They are generally hidden in the jungles and if you are going in rainy season, there are even less chances that they may come to the lake to drink water. We were lucky enough to spot one Lion and few wild elephants. People went crazy when they saw them, I was feeling weird. I understand that its lucky to spot the Lion but whats the point of going crazy over it, we can always see them in Zoo, but later I think that’s the point of going in the Jungle instead of Zoo. All of them started capturing them in their high fi cameras, but you cannot capture nature, you have to feel it.

Shahrukh Pose

There are other attractions in Thekkady like Elephant ride in jungle, spice garden visit, but they were too costly and not of much worth, so we can say that the only thing important is Periyar Wildlife sanctuary, its kind of a full day picnic with a group. Adventourous activities also include boat ride i.e. night camping, staying in jungle for 2-3 days but it has to be planned in advance with the officials. It is only possible if you have lot of time to spend in Thekkady. The very same day we started our journey to Allepey, so that we can spend more time exploring it rather than travelling again in morning.