Remember the last time you
had a really wild time This month, we invite you for another
bash in a tropical semi-evergreen forest! For company,
youll have some die-hard party animals - elephants, tigers,
leopards, bisons, sambar, wild boar, lion-tailed macaques,
langurs, deer - and most of the other regular inhabitants
of a wild, West Coast tropical evergreen forest.
The Shenduruny forest - declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1984
gets its name from an endemic species of tree called Chenkuruny
(Gluta travancoria). In the central region of this moist,
mixed deciduous forest, spread over hilly terrain of over
100 sq km, is the 26 sq km artificial lake formed by the Parappar
dam built across the Shenduruny and Kulathupuzha rivers.
But beautiful surroundings guaranteed to give those exhausted
batteries a recharge is not all that the forest is famous
for. According to some recent archaeological studies, Shenduruny
was the cradle of one of the oldest river valley civilizations
in India - one older than even the Indus Valley which dates
from 4400 - 3700 BC! Paintings similar to those of the Mesolithic
period (5210 - 4420 BC) found in the caves of central India,
have been excavated from a cave, large enough to hold 20 people,
in the northwestern part of the river.
Getting there
By road:
66 km from Kollam town on the Kollam - Shencotta Road, in
Pathanapuram taluk of Kollam district.
Nearest railway station: Thenmala connected
with Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Kashmir.
Nearest airport: Thiruvananthapuram 72 km
away.
South
India Tour Packages
Best of Karnataka Tour (Duration
: 8 Days)
(Mumbai - Bangalore - Mysore - Hassan - Bangalore -
Mumbai)
