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How to Reach Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary
By Air
The nearest airport is Coimbatore, 55 kms.
By Rail
The nearest railway station: Palakkad, 125 kms
By Road
The sanctuary is accessible by road from the Tamil Nadu side of the border. Buses ply between Pollachi and Parambikulam. Pollachi is 60 kms away and has a railway station.
Latitude : 10°20' and 10° 26' N
Longitude : 76° 35' and 76° 50' E
Rainfall : Average - 1720 mm.
Visiting Time
Visitors are allowed into Parambikulam only between 7 am and 6 pm; no vehicles can leave the park after 6.30 pm.
This National Park in Kerala offers a scintillating sight of rare wild animals. The area has quite a few hill tribes here like Malayars, Kadas, and Muthuvaas. This wildlife sanctuary has some marshy land and scattered patches of grassland, thickly forested with stands of bamboo, sandalwood, rosewood, and teak. Here you can find little remains of the original teak forests, other than the famous Kannimari teak tree, the largest in Asia as teak plantations. The tree is about 5 km from Thunakadavu, and is one of the prime attractions at the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary.
On your tour to Kerala you can visit the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, which has the largest population of Gaurs (bison). It is also a home to elephants, sloth bears, wild boars, sambhars, chital tigers, panthers, and crocodiles. There are also bonnet macaques, spectacled cobras, kraits, vipers, turtles, darters, little cormorants, and black eagles. Parambikulam is open throughout the year, but is best avoided during the monsoon. Between June and August, the monsoon rains lash, making hillsides unstable and causing slush, mosquitoes, drippy roofs and other nuisances.
On your visit to Parambikulam you can enjoy a ride in the boat cruises, which can be arranged in the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary. The Rest House of the State Forest Department at Thunakkadvu, Thellikkal, and Elathode offer comfortable lodging facilities. A tree house in the Reserved Forest area in Thunakkadavu has to be booked in advance. There are two watchtowers one at Anappadi, 8km from Thunakadavu, and other at Zungam, 5km from Thunakadavu.
Fauna
Mammals: Bonnet macaque, Liontailed macaque, Nilgiri langur, Loris, Tiger, Leopar, Jungle cat, Civet, Mongoose, Fox, Bear, Elephant, Gaur, Nilgiri Tahr, Spotted Deer, Sambar, Barking deer, Wild boar, Pangolin etc.
Reptiles: Crocodile, Varanus, Pond Terapin, Cane Turtle, Gecko Skink, Chameleon,Snakes like King Cobra, Spectacled Cobra, Krait, Viper, Python,Green keel back,Rat snake, Vine snake etc.
Fishes : Aral,bral,vattudi,thilopia, noori, mooshu, poochutti, kollotty, exyprius,taral, etc.
Birds : Darter, Little Cormorant, Black eagle, Lesser adjutant stork, Black capped kingfisher, Great Indian hornbill, Broad billed roller, Black woodpecker.
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