Top 1 Places to visit in nagercoil in 2024

Kalikesam is located in the Kanyakumari wild life sanctuary in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu, India. The Kali temple situated here.Access to Kalikesam temple is restricted and one needs to take permission from the Forest Officer, Nagercoil to enter the area. Kalikesam is a birding hotspot located in Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary. Kalikesam Waterfalls is just 35 kms from Nagercoil, our hometown. So we used to visit this place even before we started bird watching. In South India, most of the outings with families are to visit temples. We also followed the same trait and visited Kalikesam for the Kali temple. Once we started bird watching, we revisited many of our childhood picnic places and we were really surprised about the biodiversity in those areas. During picnic, you take a dip in the water or eat yummy foods sitting under a tree or play with your family. So we never noticed any birds , butterflies or wildflowers. We recently visited. Kalikesam after good rains and we really had a great time bird watching in that sanctuary. There were many rubber plantations and few streams were flowing along the edges of jungle. Sometimes the water level was so high, we cannot cross the streams. When we saw the level of water was manageable, vinod slowly pushed the bike and crossed the water. I was trudging even for this low water level, because the flowing water had a surprisingly high force. After the water crossing, we came across a big fig tree. Ficus is always the life of a jungle and we saw the Hill Mynas, Yellow-footed Green Pigeons were pecking the fig berries. The Hill Mynas were making such a racket, we could have missed the familiar knocking sound. The waterfall around the place makes more adventure.

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