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The Silent Valley National Park
spreads across 89 sq km in Kerala's Palakkad district. The Park,
which harbours some of the best evergreen forests in the Nilgiri
Biosphere Reserve, is the catchment area of the Kunthi river.
The Silent Valley came into the limelight in the 1970s, when the
government planned to dam the river. The protests that followed
were the beginning of the environmental movement in India. And
the entire valley was declared a National Park in 1985.
Today the core area of the park is closed to tourists, and there
is no habitation within the Park. So it was a rare privilege to
be allowed to trek through the Park, and across the border to
the Mukkurthi National Park in Tamil Nadu.
A 24km jeepable road through the Attapadi reserve forest took us
from Mukkali to Sairanthri. It's always more fun to walk though,
and it's easier to explore the forests en route that way. At
Sairanthri, we entered Silent Valley. From here it was a 3km
walk down to the dam site on the Kunthi; the metal suspension
bridge on the river marks the point till where tourists are
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From Bangitapal to Upper Bhavani was another 12km, after which we
were back on a road again.
Silent Valley National Park, is also known as Sairandhri Vanam .It
is a unique preserve of natural rainforests.Its area is about
89.52sq.km. Silent Valley National Park is located in the Nilgiri
Hills, Palakkad district, Kerala, in South India. Silent Valley was
declared a National park in 1980 and it is a core area of the
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Silent valley has a wide range of
wildlife such as the Nilgiri Langur, Malabar Giant Squirrel,
Lion-Tailed Macaque, Flying squirrel and Civet Cat are found in
Silent Valley National Park. Silent Valley National Park also have a
wide collection of butterflies and moth i.e more than 100 buterflies
and 400 moth species can be seen in Silent Valley National Park.
Birds such as Malabar Hornbill, Great Indian Hornbill, hoopoes, tree
pie, barbets, crow pheasant, woodpeckers, rollers, drongoes,
kingfishers and parakeets can also be seen in abundance in Silent
Valley National park.
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