What according to you is an ideal rejuvenating experience? Well, while staying at a luxury hotel with a pool and spa and international cuisine will help u refresh physically, your mind can truly be rejuvenated with this soulful journey into the woods with ‘Mid Earth.’
Imagine this, you wake up in the morning and your eyes can see the colour green along with so many other colours from the dense canopy that surrounds you. The winds will be musical from the bamboo forests around you. While you inhale the beautiful clean forest air around you with a cup of filter Kapi in your hands, you can definitely search for a Malabar giant squirrel from your room.
As you explore in to the dense forests and amazing trails of the Thattekad bird sanctuary, your eyes will slowly start to observe so many different species of birds around. With excitement to watch and explore the forest, you will never realise how the day has passed and yes, undoubtedly you will be welcomed with hot, soulful homemade south Indian food that will stay on your lips forever.
By now we are sure you don’t want to just sit at your home imagining these experiences and actually want to know about the place itself more. Thattekad, literally meaning “a flat forest” is the first bird sanctuary of Kerala. It was declared a sanctuary after Salim Ali, the Bird Man of India described it as “richest bird habitat ion peninsular India”. Approximately, 322 species of birds including migratory ones are resident to the forests of this sanctuary. Many endemic species like Malabar Trogons, Srilankan Frogmouth, White bellied treepie, Srilankan Bay Owl and many more are spotted here. Sightings of one of the rarest mammals, the endemic Slender Loris will make you one of the very few humans that will get to experience this.
If any of you adventure loving people think that walking in forests in not your cup of tea, we urge all of them to come and have a unique and exciting experience of exploring the forest in darkness to spot the nocturnal wildlife with our Night trails.
If some of you are wondering that you don’t know much about birdwatching or you don’t have appropriate gear to start or you won’t be able to identify and spot birds , have no fear because Mid Earth will be there with you even if you are a novice or a ‘first time in jungle’ kind of traveller.
We can only describe just a miniscule of what you could experience with us in Thattekad. The forest, the nature, the birds, the food and the people will all contribute towards you having a true rejuvenation which is needed to wipe out the stress of the pandemic.
