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Treks and travels

Eravikulam National Park - Home of Nilgiri Tahr

Posted: 01 Aug 2015 11:46 PM PDT

28 June 2015

In our quest to visit waterfalls in Munnar we never thought about seeing nearby Eravikulam National Park. While driving back to Bengaluru via Udumalpet road, we saw the entrance to Eravikulam National Park. The place looked very organized with lot of parking place and safari vehicles waiting. It looked inviting and we decided to have a visit in spite of the delay it may cause to our return to Bengaluru.

Shola forests of Eravikulam
We were the first group of people that day. Hence we quickly got our tickets and boarded into safari bus. From the entry point, safari bus starts the climb towards the National park. Initial stretch is though tea gardens. Anaimudi, the highest peak in South India at 8411 feet was visible. It would have been great if trekking was not banned to this peak.


A huge waterfall was seen while climbing up. Though a monsoon waterfalls it looked beautiful.


The waterfall is just next to the road. The vehicle stopped for a while to view the falls.


There were other falls in the vicinity.


The vehicle stops at a point from where we are left to ourselves. We can hop on to any Safari vehicles that come throughout the day to return back. But there is not much that we could do there other than walking up for a km.  Forest guards were posted at many places to keep a watch on wandering visitors.



The National Park is home to the largest population of endangered Nilgiri Tahr. While one needs to be lucky to find them, the probability of seeing them is quite high. We did see them at couple of places. This is definitely the highlight of the safari.