- Wildlife Lodges Resorts
- Indian Wildlife Packages
- Indian National Parks
- Bird Sanctuaries In India
- Wildlife Travel Packages
- South India Wildlife Tour (15N / 16D)
- Wildlife Tour with India and Nepal (14N / 15D)
- India Wildlife Special Tour Package (13N/ 14D)
- North East India With Kaziranga (13N / 14D)
- Uttarakhand Wildlife Tour Packages (12N / 13D)
- Wildlife Tour Package of Orissa (08N / 09D)
- Chhattisgarh Wildlife Tour Package (05N / 06D)
Taj Garden Retreat
Taj Garden Retreat is a five star hotel located close to the beautiful Periyar National Park. It is one of the ideal places for stay in Periyar. The scenic natural beauty of surroundings with luxury facilities and traditional charm of Kerala make the place ideal for a rejuvenating break. Cochin International Airport about 185 km and Madurai Airport about 135 km are the two nearest airports from the hotel.Accommodation
The hotel has 32 well furnished cottages built traditional South Indian style and decorated with lots of plantations. The hotel complex is surrounded by variety of plantations including Coffee, Cardamom, Pepper, Teak and Fruits. It is just located only 1 km away from the Periyar National Park and offers wonderful of surrounding areas.
Facilities
Taj Garden Retreat offers wonderful luxury accommodation option. Its all cottages are decorated in traditional style and variety of plantation. Comfortable bedroom, hot and cold water supplies, bathroom with shower area and bathtubs, television, satellite connection, direct phone call, multi cuisine restaurants and dining, tea and coffee maker are provided to the guests by the hotel.
Activities
Tourists can enjoy Ayurvedic massage therapies, spa, wildlife excursion at Periyar Park, boat ride on Periyar Lake and several other adventures activities in surroundings.
Travel Tips For Visiting the National Park
Before choosing India as your destination it’s better to have a little knowledge of this land of diversity. Since its inception in tourist books, India’s tourism sector continuously increase in dimension and popularity and today the country becomes one of the most striking destination in the world and is host to scores of international tourist every year.
To make your visit simpler, effective and more enjoyable, India presents well-organized infrastructure covering all the aspects of tourism. Apart from the exotic and colorful places, India offers a profusion of hotels of all shapes and sizes right from the reasonable budget hotels to state-of-the-art luxury hotels and heritage hotels that can even vie with the foremost hotels of the world in the field of comfort and hospitality.
Just as its varied landscape, the climate of the country varies too – from the arid deserts of Rajasthan to the coolest and wettest valleys of Assam. Practically India moves on with three seasons a year –hot, wet and the cool. The sun starts to grow hotter in the Nothern Plains around February and by April it becomes almost unbearable, and monsoon in the form of huge rainstorms kick start around the month of June.
Before you depart
Research the wildlife you want to spot as well as the destination you are traveling to.
• Plan your trip to coincide with the peak wildlife season.
• Determine the best place for spotting animals and birds.
• Organize wildlife watching trips for the early morning or late evening.
• Hire an outfitter or guide that caters to families and has experience with children.
Engage the kids
Introduce the kids to the animals and birds they are likely to see on your wildlife watching trip.
• Investigate wildlife as well as its habitat.
• Help them learn to identify animal tracks.
• Research the natural history of the area together.
Make it fun
Knowing where and how to look for wildlife will increase your child’s chance of spotting birds and animals and it will help him or her understand the need to be alert, patient and quiet.
• Scan the horizon rather and rather than focusing on a bush or tree.
• Detect motion from a bird in flight to the twitch of an ear.
• Look for shapes that stand apart from the geography.
• Watch for the flash of color both in the sky and on the ground.
• Look at the edge of the animal’s habitat, be it a forest, field or pond.
• Keep an eye out for signs, from animal tracks to gnawed wood, that animals have been there.
• Don’t focus only on sight, listen to the sounds and detect the smells.
Turn your outing into a wildlife adventure
Spotting wildlife is only part of the fun. Include the following in your child’s day pack and turn the family outing into a wildlife adventure.
• Field guide.
• Animal or bird checklist.
• Binoculars.
• Camera, many disposable models work fine.
• Notebook to record ‘evidence’ of what they see.
Things More Important ! Never Forget Them
Essentials Doccuments : If you are an outsider and visiting India, carrying proper identification is inevitable. Like any other place in the world a proper identification in the form of passport and visa is necessary and should be always with you throughout your journey period. Besides the originals, a photocopy of your passport, visa, air ticket and other travel documents should be maintained.
Travel Insurance : Wherever you go the element of risk is always there with you like a shadow. And travelling to a foreign country can make the risk unnecessarily bigger. So it is wise to shed this uncertainty of life by insure against it. What happen if you find that your luggage and other personal valuables disappeared after arrival, or a medical emergency arises during your stay or some personal emergency that demands an early return to your homeland? Your travel insurance will defend all financial crises during such fragile moments of your visit.
Before choosing India as your destination it’s better to have a little knowledge of this land of diversity. Since its inception in tourist books, India’s tourism sector continuously increase in dimension and popularity and today the country becomes one of the most striking destination in the world and is host to scores of international tourist every year.
To make your visit simpler, effective and more enjoyable, India presents well-organized infrastructure covering all the aspects of tourism. Apart from the exotic and colorful places, India offers a profusion of hotels of all shapes and sizes right from the reasonable budget hotels to state-of-the-art luxury hotels and heritage hotels that can even vie with the foremost hotels of the world in the field of comfort and hospitality.
Just as its varied landscape, the climate of the country varies too – from the arid deserts of Rajasthan to the coolest and wettest valleys of Assam. Practically India moves on with three seasons a year –hot, wet and the cool. The sun starts to grow hotter in the Nothern Plains around February and by April it becomes almost unbearable, and monsoon in the form of huge rainstorms kick start around the month of June.
Before you depart
Research the wildlife you want to spot as well as the destination you are traveling to.
• Plan your trip to coincide with the peak wildlife season.
• Determine the best place for spotting animals and birds.
• Organize wildlife watching trips for the early morning or late evening.
• Hire an outfitter or guide that caters to families and has experience with children.
Engage the kids
Introduce the kids to the animals and birds they are likely to see on your wildlife watching trip.
• Investigate wildlife as well as its habitat.
• Help them learn to identify animal tracks.
• Research the natural history of the area together.
Make it fun
Knowing where and how to look for wildlife will increase your child’s chance of spotting birds and animals and it will help him or her understand the need to be alert, patient and quiet.
• Scan the horizon rather and rather than focusing on a bush or tree.
• Detect motion from a bird in flight to the twitch of an ear.
• Look for shapes that stand apart from the geography.
• Watch for the flash of color both in the sky and on the ground.
• Look at the edge of the animal’s habitat, be it a forest, field or pond.
• Keep an eye out for signs, from animal tracks to gnawed wood, that animals have been there.
• Don’t focus only on sight, listen to the sounds and detect the smells.
Turn your outing into a wildlife adventure
Spotting wildlife is only part of the fun. Include the following in your child’s day pack and turn the family outing into a wildlife adventure.
• Field guide.
• Animal or bird checklist.
• Binoculars.
• Camera, many disposable models work fine.
• Notebook to record ‘evidence’ of what they see.
Things More Important ! Never Forget Them
Essentials Doccuments : If you are an outsider and visiting India, carrying proper identification is inevitable. Like any other place in the world a proper identification in the form of passport and visa is necessary and should be always with you throughout your journey period. Besides the originals, a photocopy of your passport, visa, air ticket and other travel documents should be maintained.
Travel Insurance : Wherever you go the element of risk is always there with you like a shadow. And travelling to a foreign country can make the risk unnecessarily bigger. So it is wise to shed this uncertainty of life by insure against it. What happen if you find that your luggage and other personal valuables disappeared after arrival, or a medical emergency arises during your stay or some personal emergency that demands an early return to your homeland? Your travel insurance will defend all financial crises during such fragile moments of your visit.
