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| » Home » Discover Kerala » Kerala Attraction » Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary |
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Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary |
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Best time to visit : September to May
Nearest Airport : Mudhrai, Tamil Nadu (145km)
Nearest Railway Station : Kottayam (114km)
Nearest Town : Kumily (4km)
The Exquisite Location of The Park :
The Periyar Wildlife National Park covers an area of 77,700 ha of cardamom hill ranges within the Idduki District. The tourist zone of your Periyar National Park is close to the picturesque little town of Kumily, with its exotic and colorful spice marketplace. Thanks on the Maharaja of Travancore, Periyar was given the status of a reserve forest way again in 1934. Inside the year 1895, a component from the forest was dammed to defend the catchment area on the Periyar River.
The outcome was the wonderful 26 sq km Periyar Lake, dotted with islands and tree stumps. The formalities for declaring the core area of the periayal wildlife National Park as a Wildlife conservation National Park, are within the method of becoming met.
Flora and Fauna Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary:
The Periyar National Park is a combine of tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forest, which supports a large variety of plant and animal species.
Based on the forest division, the National Park has about forty tigers, 20 leopards, 900 elephants and 280 gaur. The reserve also includes a population from the Lion-tailed macaque, the Nilgiri langur, the Malabar large squirrel, porcupine, wild dog, sloth bear, jungle cat, sambar, palm civet, wild boar and jackal. Roughly 180 species of birds are mentioned to have been spotted within the National Park, with a comparatively large spotting on the rare Great Indian Hornbill. Grey herons, kingfishers, egrets, darters, coots, fish-owls, grackles and cormorants might be usually seen around the lake, so do carry your binoculars for that trip.
The Fantastic Sights of Indian Hornbill :
The Great Indian Hornbill will be the king on the skies. As large as an eagle, it could devour sizeable preys in flight. It's simply distinguishable by its black wings with two white bands around the ends on the wingspan, and an huge yellow bill. The Terrific Indian Hornbill mates for life.
Yr right after year, the pair generally returns to its residence, which it can make in the hollow of trees, preferably fig. Hornbills are slow breeders and generally increase only one young at a time. The male hornbill is quite a knight, and feeds the pregnant female, and then the young for around three months.
Best Time To Visit:
The ideal time to visit to Periyar National Park is between the months of February and May. During this time with the year, the animals in the forest come to your lake for water since the water holes inside the forest dry up. Groups of elephants playing and swimming in the shimmering lake, isn't an altogether unusual sight. Being within a motorboat may be rather reassuring.
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