Get wild on Kerala Backwater tours with Periyar National Park

A trip to India whether you have decided to go to tour it as solo or part of an India group tour you can’t avoid travelling God’s own country, Kerala, that has unique space in any travel itinerary to India, moreover a trip to India is considered un accomplished unless is not matched with a trip to Kerala.

Periyar National Park

Trip to Kerala popularly known as Kerala Backwaters is a very extensive tour to great India lagoon surrounded with lush greenery in Kerala. Along with trip to extended water canals, beaches, house boats and another added attraction of Kerala Backwaters for wildlife lovers is a Periyar national park.

Periyar national park situated along a huge artificial lake has been extracted from Periyar River in 1895. The entire Periayar park is been extended in an area of 780 kilometers of which around 350 square kilometres is the core park area. Periyar is recognized as one of the most popular national parks in southern India. Among a range of wild animals this park is exclusively known for its elephants.

Periyar Boat Safari, Kerala Backwater Tours

Periyar is situated in Thekkady district that is four kilometre from Kumili in the Idukki district of central Kerala. As for reaching Idukki, the closets airport is Maduri in Tamil Nadu and Kochi in Kerala resepectively 130 and 190 kilometers away. What makes Periyar unique from other national parks in India is its accessibility throughout the year. However, the best period of the year to travel park is in cooler and drier months of October to February.  Visiting the park in months of monsoon has it has their own unique charm. 

Periyar Lake

The park remains open daily from 6 am to 5 p.m. The Periyar Tiger Reserve also offers a slow boat ride within the park for about one and half hours.  Safaris there are generally taken by boat thus making Periyar to be a most exclusive, unique place to live and enjoy oneself. What makes Periyar a unique place to further enjoy the great wildlife is eco-tourism exploits at the wildlife park.  These excusive wildlife eco tours there includes as guides, bamboo rafting, night time jungle patrols, village  trips, bullock  carts and extensive tribal  heritage visits with these usual Kerala Backwater tour packages trip.  

           

Another great added attraction of Periyar wildlife reserve is Elephant rides that are being carried out in countryside arrange by many hotels where you may be staying in. An average elephant ride includes vistas of farm tourism, elephant rides, feeding and bathing. For lodging purposes there are many hotels of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) that run three popular hotels within the park including Lake Palace, Aranya Nivas and Periyar House.

Elephant Rides Preyiar

  

What makes Kerala Backwater So Special!!!

It is not wrong to term Kerala Backwater Tours like visiting the Venice of east where Kerala Backwaters is a network of about 1500 km of canals artificial as well as natural, 38 rivers and 5 big lakes extending from one end of Kerala to the another end. A lagoon finally dispersing into the sea, Kerala Backwaters is a land filled with immense greenery and pacifying and soothing watery island with a mesmerising aura that a traveller will always remember after having a KeralaBackwatersTour to India. 

Originally once used as a transportation canals at present backwaters offer a rejuvenating touring experience to tourist visiting Kerala. One can enjoy a trip to backwaters by hiring a boat for a day long trip or fully enjoy house boats available to stay with a navigator and a cook with additional offerings and facilities. So what makes Kerala Backwaters so special for the travellers is its uniqueness of offering on India Group tours packages in addition to offering of hill resorts and beaches are beautifully carved out house boats that passes through on tourist tours across the long minutely created out lagoons, lakes, canals, estuaries and deltas of several rivers that flow into the Arabian Sea. 

This way Kerala Backwaters is one of the richest fresh water sources highly rich in marine life and as well as blesses with astounding natural beauty. The entire Kerala backwater is divided into many region and areas. 

The most scenic and accessible area of Kerala Backwaters is Ashtamudi Lake located in district in Kollam. It is counted as one of the largest fresh water lakes in India with a large number of navigable canals and river connecting to the all parts of south Kerala. It is also home to several endangered marine species with rich bio-diversity.

Vembanad backwater stretch expands into the districts of Ernakulam, Alapuzha and Kottayam area. The Cochin coast on this backwater stretch is dotted with numerous islands interconnected by ferries and bridges. 

The third backwater region is located at Kannur-Valiyaparambu Backwaters located in districts of Kannur and Kasargod, which is yet to be explored with respect to tourism activities, yet a small number of tourism activities has commenced here. 

Apart from these, three major backwater regions, smaller lagoons could be found in almost all coastal districts of Kerala.