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The Silent Valley National Park is situated
40 km away from Mannarkkad in the district
of Palakkad, Kerala. Covering an area of
90 sq km, this Kerala wildlife sanctuary
was notified as a national park in 1980.
Tucked away in the Kundali Hills in the
Western Ghats, the national park is referred
as a core of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
The best time to travel to the Silent Valley
National Park in Kerala is in between the
months of September and March.
The Silent Valley National
Park offers shelter to more than 1,00 species
of plants, 100 species of butterfly, 400
species of moths, 26 species of mammals,
120 species of birds, 11 species of reptiles,
9 variety of lizards and 11 species of amphibians.
This national park in Kerala is surely a
place for all nature and wildlife lovers.
Travel along with camera and capture the
true wilderness of the park in your camera.
With Kerala Travel Tourism,
enjoy tours to Silent Valley Park Kerala
and its serenity. You can spot Elephants,
Tigers, Leopards, Sloth Bears, Wild Dogs,
Lion-tailed Macaques, Bonnet Macaques, Deer,
Nilgiri Langurs, Stripe-necked Mongoose,
Ceylon Frog Moth, Malabar Giant Squirrel
and Indian Pangolin. The national park is
also rich is its avifauna like Hawk Eagles,
Nilgiri Laughing Thrushes, Short-eared Owls,
Black-crested Baza, Shaheen Falcons and
many other species of feathered fauna.
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)
is the nearest airport from the national
park, 55 km. you can also enjoy a road trip
to this park with tropical evergreen rain
forests from Mannarkkad, which is just 40
km away.
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