Silent Valley National Park - 80 Km from Palakkad

The Sole surviving bit of evergreen forests in the Sahya Ranges covers about 9000 hectares named Silent Valley due to is own peculiarity. Huge hollow wild tree can hide 12 people. A clean and beautiful Kunthi Puzha (River) flows along the valley. There are luxuriant tropical wet evergreen forests with lofty trees, rare species and progenitors of cultivated spices of pulses and species. Elephant, Tiger, Wild dog, flying squirrel and lion tailed macaque are the animals found here. This rich abode of rare plants and animals become Kerala's Second National Park . Madras Govt. has declared it as a reserve forest from 1888 onwards. British people have constructed bungalows inside the forest. There is no bamboo in the forest. 665 numbers are plants; trees and orchids are found here. The abstract of latest census of wild life conducted in 1993 is given below.

(1) Lion tailed macaque - 1960, (2) Bonnet Macaque - 4860, (3) Nilgiri languar - 2987, (4) Common languar - 4296, (5) Elephant - 175, (6) Sambar - 10665, (7) Spotted deer - 6259, (8) Barking deer - 1025, (9) Mouse deer - 550, (10) Wild bour - 40963, (11) Malabar Squirrel - 1384, (12) Nilgiri thar - 1075, (13) Gizzded giant squirrel - 75, (14) Purcupi - 695, (15) Bear - 420, (16) Tiger - 76, (17) Leopard - 16, (18) Wild dog - 358.