THE WAYANAD SANCTUARY
We catch the bus for Wayanad in order to visit the jungle. It was about a four hours ride by bus. The temperature and the climate were totally different here. We left Kerala's warm, moist climate behind, the weather here was so cold and the bus didn't had windows to protect us from cold but we had biscuits for breakfast and lunch, till we get there.
The Ente Veedu (my own home)
We spend two wonderful days and nights with Paj family.
I would never forget their warm
hospitality, they treat us like their children.
We spend two wonderful days and nights with Paj family.
I would never forget their warm
hospitality, they treat us like their children.
Paj family.
Mme Seetha was the soul of the house.
A tribal tree house.
We had experience an amazing traditional malayalee menu.
Also family's plantations were an excellent place to walk, relax and meditate.
We spend our nights talking near the fire!
Gisela, Brigit and I were visit a tea plantation with our guide and friend Nash. Acres and acres of tea, coffee estates where cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, jack fruit, chickoo, ginger (adhrak), cautsuc, vanilla all grow in harmony. We also visit the famous Thirunelly Temple (a holly place) but unfortunately my camera had empty battery..
A tribal woman.
Mr. and Mme Rema from Thrissur.
Tholpetty Wildlife Santuary in the Wayanad Region of Kerala. Below is a domestic elephant. All elephants domestic and wild ones are very dangerous and unpredictables, the local people warning us not to get any closer. I read the newspapers that the last months many farmers killed by elephants..
River trekking at Pookode (Pookat) Lake.A natural fresh water lake surrounded by evergreen forest and rolling hills. Nash help us to passed the river and get in the jungle with a bamboo raft.
It was an hour evening safari with jeeps into the wild jungle. We saw samba deers, bisons, wild peacocks and some other exotic birds. It's rare to see wild elephants but we saw a couple of males fighting from a distance - I don't know why, ...but no tigers. Tigers are very shy and suspicious animals and if they smell human presence they are living at once. So we were not disappointed by missing them. It was special just to be in a place where you know they are there living their lives in freedom and safeness. And as the label is writting at the entrance "Leave nothing but foot prints, Take nothing but memories"! (Tholpetty Wildlife Santuary - Wayanad)
The Tholpetty (Beguri) Wildlife Sanctuary, a part of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, is 15 km north of Mananthavady and connected to Muthanga in Wayanad and Nagarhole in Karnataka. Flanked by towering mountain ranges on all four sides, Tholpetty is spectacular and serene, with a floating population of 900-odd elephants. These moist deciduous forests are rich in bio-diversity and form an integral part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. It was here that the renowned Malabar king Pazhassi Raja fought the British.
Our friends from Kannur are expecting us to spend a couple days with them at their village in the jungle with the tribals. That night the tribals had organised a very nice reception to us!
Cautsuc plantations.
Coffee beans.
This purple vegetable was a kind of root tasted like potato, very delicious!
A beautiful tribal girl.
This is a holy tree, a tribal temple.
They are washing the clothes at the rivers, no soaps, no laundry machines.
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