About this experience
Trekking and camping in the wilderness are in great demand from nature study groups who visit Silent Valley National Park. With this in view, SVNP management intends to involve genuine nature study groups in protection-oriented trekking and camping in some fringe areas of the Park. The programme includes a 5 km trek to Keerippara Camp shed, which is located in the scenic spot above Attappady ghat and overnight stay there. Being in an open terrain, the campers may get a good chance to observe wildlife in the hills and valleys sprawling all around. The landscape represents a different face of Silent Valley, but gives a perfect wilderness experience to the enthusiastic visitors. The visitor thus joins the Park protection team during the programme.
Keerippara is the ideal package for those interested in wildlife. You may amble up the path snaking through the forest feasting your eyes on the magnificent canvas of greenery and wildlife conjured up by nature. Listen to the orchestra struck up by birds as you explore this slice of heaven. The trail runs through a tangle of forest types in the buffer zone of the Park. Trek through the evergreen and moist deciduous forests before venturing into the secondary grasslands at Keerippara. This refreshing trail offers mesmerising visuals of butterflies and birds flitting above.
Specifics: Maximum number of persons in one group is five and each group will be accompanied by a guide. The time span for the trek is 4 hrs. Advance booking is necessary for this programme.
Keerippara is a vantage point, which can be reached through Mukkali- Keerippara road and through Mandanpotti-Keerippara trek path and Poomala - Keerippara trek path. The combination of these routes will take you through a mosaic of landscapes from rain forest to deciduous forests and then to rolling grasslands.
