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Walking Wildlife Tours In The Ghats

November 13, 2008

For getting a taste of the ancient Raj there isn’t anything greater than a walking trip along the western Ghats to Kerala, Tamil and Karnataka in India, journeying on the legendary narrow gauge blue mountain train and dropping in at the sultans palace in Tippu.

The phrase Ghats refers to a series of steps going down to an area of water that you can understand when you are travelling in the area with all of the rich growth. Buying silk in the 2nd largest city of Karnataka gives you a sensory rush with its vibrant colour and feel and as you travel about the merchants stands you are assaulted by the number of colours I didn’t feel to out of place with my colourful street wear and certainly the stall holders seemed happy to see me.

There are huge castles and Maharajah’s palaces to experience that at certain times would have been home to royalty or watched over local trade paths, trade paths that I have now actually walked along, you cant quite describe the sense of history that you sense when moving among the scenery. Exotic temples nestle within the architecture of Kerala, revealing themselves as you are walking in Tamil, Karnataka and Kerala you aren’t ever sure what you are going to view as you travel round the next building or into the next clearing.

When travelling through the flora and fauna you don’t get a lot more tranquil than Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in India. These beautiful, rural states have a beauty that is rich and verdant, supporting animals such as tigers, elephants, endemic birds, plants and butterflies that are just great to walk through and If you were purely going their of an Indian wildlife tour you wouldn’t go far wrong.

In the Biosphere reserves of the Western Ghats you can see that the wildlife in the western Ghats is so gorgeous and un touched as you move through it and the stunning spice farming Cardamom Hills lets you into the strong ecological farming tradition of the district which incorporates nature in its turning of the seasons.

Historic Cochin with its old churches and synagogues jumps out as a diamond amidst the vegitation, healthy and bountiful tea plantations, and coastal areas with gorgeous surf and shining beaches framed with coconut palms and leafy vegetation.

If you are walking in these places ensure you use somebody that has a great deal of experience and even better hire local trackers to show you elements that you might have not seen if you had not been walking with them in the states of the western Ghats. I would recommend walking in the western Ghats just because of its tranquil splendour that seeps into you as you walk its landscape.

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