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State of Kerala a day spent in a village with elephants... is it possible??
Posted: Mon July 6, 2009 03:51 PM UTC
hello
anyone has information of where to go for a day and spend the time
with elephants, a ride around, a bath with elephants, a typical
village ....

i dont even know if such place exists, i am not looking for something
very tourist, any ideas?

thanks
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State of Kerala Re: a day spent in a village with elephants... is it possible??
Posted: Tue July 7, 2009 12:54 PM UTC
Hai,
There is a place in kerala near guruvayoor called punathurkotha, which is a place where elephants are looked after.
Here you can see the elephants bathe, eat, etc.,
but going on a ride on it, i dont know, as i did not take any ride.
This place is not in a forest, but only elephants given as gifts to the guruvayor temple are kept.

There is another place in karnataka, near nagarhole, which is very near to mysore,
called "murkal".

I had been to this place just last week.
This place is just inside the nagarhole forest, and u need prior permission from the forest dept to stay here.
There are cottages and dormitary for staying, but u have to cook yourself.,
and the most important thing is, there are no provision shops or any other shop to buy vegetables etc.
Infact you have to go a good 20kms towards hunsur or H.D.jote for rations,
One more thing there is no electricity here, no mobile connections nor telephones.
If you want more details I can provide with them.


Here elephants are trained, given bath

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Posted: Tue July 7, 2009 03:29 PM UTC
Hi,
I know a place not so far from Kochi.Its called Kodanad - its an elephant orphanage of sorts.Please check the link below for more details.You can go early in the morning and watch the elephants have a bath in the nearby river and if you give the caretaker some money you can even help them scrub the lil ones with a coconut shell.Its an awesome experience.Would def recommend it. Although,I heard that recently they stopped letting ppl touch the elephants as some of them developed an infection.Check before you go.

http://www.kuruppampady.com/kodanad.php

Happy Travels
Harsha

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State of Kerala Re: a day spent in a village with elephants... is it possible??
Posted: Tue July 7, 2009 04:37 PM UTC
thank you mssthirdeye, unfortunately nagarhole is out of my route
but the other option seems interesting.
doyou know the village close to it where i can spend the night?

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Posted: Wed July 8, 2009 04:04 PM UTC
Hunsur is the town, which is around 30 kms from mysore,
and there are lots of buses from mysore to hunsur.

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