Jungle Patrol
Shepherding the jungle

The programme
 

This programme is part of the regular night patrolling in the fringe ecodevelopment zones of the tiger reserve. By participating in this, one is actually helping in the protection of the forests of Periyar. The trekking could be at any time between 7 pm. and 4 am.


and could be taken by persons having proper physical and mental fitness to trek through the wilderness in the night. The maximum duration for a slot is 3 hours and the maximum capacity of one slot is limited to 8 visitors (to move in two separate teams). They will accompany two protection watchers and one armed forest guard!

Try the limits of your senses-sight, hearing and smell and take in the totally different world of nocturnal jungle life.

The beaten path into the wood was dark when
the moonlight slept on valleys elsewhere.

I started exploring the jungle to find trees
attained strange shapes deep in the forest.

I waited for a tiny cry to creep in my ear.
A soft lullaby of a night jar and I feel the jungle
thick and full.

Hundred eyes staring at me...

Yes, I am the ranger of dark forests.
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