a country with strong ancient Buddhist culture and exhibits it to the outer world with extreme pride. The ancient Buddhist culture and fascinating natural scenery make it an automatic choice for tourists.

Suggested Program

Day 1: Arrive Calicut - Silent Valley National Park (80 Km / 3 hours)

Arrive at Calicut airport in Kerala, where 'AN INDIAN ESCAPE 'representative will meet you at the airport and assist you with departure for Silent Valley National Park.

Day 2 Day 5: Silent Valley National Park

Spend 3 full days in the park looking for the endemic 'lion tailed Macaque'. India is well known for her extensive diversity of primates with 19 species distributed all over the country. Of these only five species have been reported from Kerala State. They include two macaques (Bonnet macaque andan incredible chaos of plants and animals and birds and insects.

The lion-tailed macaque is a diurnal rain forest dweller. It is a good climber and spends a majority of its life in the upper canopy of tropical moist evergreen forests. Unlike other macaques, it avoids humans. In group behaviour, it is much like other macaques: it lives in hierarchical groups of usually ten to twenty animals, which consist of few males and many females. It is a territorial animal, defending its area first with loud cries towards the invading troops. If this proves fruitless, it brawls aggressively.

Apart from the lion tailed macaque there also resides 200 species of birds sighted and identified in the Valley, 14 are endemic to the Western Ghat's.These are Nilgiri Wood Pigeon,Blue winged Parakeet,