Periyar and the Precious Elephant Sighting

Saturday, February 09, 2013
Kumily, Kerala, India







 





We then headed back to Kerala, slightly further south, to Kumily, and stayed at Green View, with a green view and Nilgiri langur monkeys.



And having seen a Hindu ceremony, it was time for a Keralan Catholic one



Kumily is on the edge of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, where we spent a great day with the rangers. There were 12 tourists, an armed guard, and 6 other rangers, and we started on hiking through the park then continued by bamboo raft.



Another hike, lunch, a rest, then back again, and so far the only new wildlife we had seen was a kingfisher. Slightly despondent, we return by raft, then the final hike and ... finally we see an elephant ... who stays for a while ... then ambles off!



After all this activity, time for some downtime, so on to Backwater Farm at Cherthala, where we will end our road trip ... we're on our own from here on!
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