PALAKKAD
DISTRICT
Silent Valley National Park: (40 km from Mannarghat)
Main attractions:
Elephants,
tigers, wild boars, flying squirrels, lion tailed macaques and king cobras.
Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary:
Main attractions:
Fauna:
Mammals: Bonnet macaques, lion, tailed macaques, Nilgiri langurs, loris,
tigers, lwopards, jungle cats, mongoose, focen, bears, elephants, gaurs, Nilgiri
tahrs, spotted deer, sambar, barking deer, wild boars, pangolins etc.
Reptiles: Crocodiles, varanur pond terrapins, cane trutiles, geckoes,
skunks, chameleons, snakes like king cobras, spectacled
cobras,
kraits, vipers, pythons, green keel backs, rat snakes, vine snakes.
Fishes: Arals, brals, vatudis, thilopias, noovis, mooshus, poochittis,
kollotties, exypriuses, tarals, mahaseer etc. Capped kingfisher, great Indian
bombills, broad billed rollers, back woodpeckers.
Flora: Neem, nanjanathi, sandal, dendrocalamus and bamboosa arundinacea,
teak, vengal, muzhukanjiram, maruthu, vaka, mulluvenga, rosewood, manjakadambu
pala, elavu, vembu, aval, vanteak... A gaint teak, 40 m high and 6.4 m in girth
and apthy named kannimaram the first tree, stands as a monuments of the past.
Trekking trails: Dhoni, Seethakundu and Govindamalai hills.
