Karian Chola Trek

Day 3 - 29th Sept, 2009
After 40kms in two days, we pushed the karimala gopuram trek to 4th day and went for the light karianchola trek on the 3rd day, 8 kms overall. yeah, 8 kms a day is light for us after the tramway trek :). We finished our breakfast in parambikulam village, we didn't pack anything for the lunch. Planed to have lunch near eco centre. In the middle of the trek, there is a stretch of evergreen forest in this trek. Walking inside evergreen forest was altogether different and nice!. We saw variety of trees in the evergreen forest. We saw few orchids, variety of mushrooms. Each tree is fighting for their share of sunlight and growing up. It was cool walking inside the evergreen forest. Guide Murugesh and Babu answered our questions about the trees and flowers.

We crossed over a water path inside the evergreen forest. We caught some crabs. check out the blog entry on crab catching.

We saw one big tree, Seven of us held hands to cover the bark of the tree.

We heard loud voice of elephant. Our guides babu and Murugesh alerted us, checked the presence of the elephants on our trial. The voice came from left side of the trial. They said we might get into trouble if we go in this trial and they found alternate trial on the right side. In the alternate trial, we collected honey and drank directly :) check out the blog entry on honey collection.
At the end of the trail, We found a cycus tree with fruits.
After the trail, a path led us to the eco centre. We reached the eco center and had our lunch at Minivet cafe. We ate fish and eggs to get some protein for our muscles for the next day's Karimala gopuram trek :)

You can read more about our parambikulam experience from the main blog entry on the parambikulam trek blog entry .