Eravikulam National Park

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We arrived at the park gates, paid our entrance fee and transferred to a bus which took us up to a point from where we could walk.  

This is the view from the drop off point.

 I thought it was a nice warm day for a walk in the park but my walking companions thought otherwise.

 

The park was created in 1975 for the express purpose of saving these little guys from extinction.  They may not look that special but they have a genus all to themselves.  

They are even toed, horned, ungulates, not goats, nor antelopes nor cattle.  Currently the experts think their nearest relatives are sheep but they do  keep changing their minds.

There are also elephants in the park and possibly tigers but this is a wild as it got for us.

Not really once in a blue moon or even every 'Preston Guild" but every 12 years like clockwork the blooming of the neelakurinji paints the hills blue then purple. 

We had missed it by weeks.  So come back in 2018 and I may have a photo of neelakurinji in flower.

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