Rainforest Resort, Athirapally – the Ultimate Monsoon Holiday Destination in Kerala

May 4, 2011 - PRLog -- Come June, Kerala looks her best, the landscapes wearing new lush green garbs, the dark mountains bejewelled with thick silver streams and waterfalls, and the forests coming alive with a collage of colours, the twitters of the birds and the soft footfalls of the animals looking around for water or a casual prey. This is a time when one is able to experience Kerala at its best.

So what’s so special about Kerala during this time of the year? Of course, the monsoon! Kerala gets drenched and soaked by the rains during the months of June through August. It’s the monsoon that makes the Kerala vegetation so green, her forests so deep, nature so beautiful, rivers so over-flowing and waterfalls so intense. And that’s not about all. Monsoon evokes poetry and music. Kerala’s literature and music are rich with themes that revolve around the monsoon. Onam, Kerala’s harvest festival, is celebrated during this time. What’s more, the monsoons are considered to be divine, rejuvenating and of course, romantic! No wonder Kerala is one of the destinations that are most sought after by the monsoon lovers.

The rainforests offer the best monsoon experience in Kerala. The rainforests of Athirapally are an inspirational mix of dense forests, swelling rivers, dangerous rocks, and large and small waterfalls. The forests are rich with a wide variety of flora and fauna. While the monsoons add more life and colour to the Athirapally rainforests, they add more fury, mist, music and rhythm to the Athirapally Waterfalls. The best, if not the only, frontal view of the Athirapally Waterfalls that one can get is from the Rainforest Resort.

Rainforest Resort of Athirapally is situated at a vantage point from where one can get one of the best possible views of Athirapally Waterfalls – the largest waterfalls in Kerala known as the Niagara of Kerala. The Resort is built in such a way that every room and balcony, the swimming pool and every table at the restaurant offer a beautiful frontal view of the Waterfalls. The falls are so close that they provide both a picturesque backdrop and a soothing background music adding to the ambience of the resort. It’s refreshing to watch the falls throughout your waking hours and to listen to the rhythm of the falling waters that lulls you to sleep in the night and then gently wakes you up in the morning. During monsoon, the surge of the waters is so heavy, so intense and so magnificent that it fills out to its full width of 400 feet. Falling from a height of 80 feet, you will be entranced by this breathtaking apparition!  You would wonder if it’s the descending deluge that’s holding you in rapture or the giant waves of foam that’s stopping your breath or the spreading heavy mist that’s evoking romance in the air.

Once you are able to free yourselves from the magical spell of the falls, you can trek down the valley behind the resort towards the Waterfalls. Take a guide with you who would know his way towards the gurgling river from where you can have the stupendous view of the Waterfalls in all its glory. If you are a lover of all that’s green, he can give you an interesting insight into the different species of bushes, grass and trees and the different flowers that the valley is enriched with. You could also go bird watching into the woods and look out for a wide variety of birds in different shapes, sizes and colours - Magpies, Hornbills, Hawks, Sunbirds, Mynahs, Orioles, Wood pigeons and many, many more. The rainforest here is home to all the four South Indian species of Hornbills.

If you are the kind who would like to relax indoors while watching and listening to the rain pouring outside, then Rainforest Resort is the right place for you with its environmentally friendly décor and refreshing ambience. Enjoy a cuppa in the restaurant or recline on your bed in the room or just put your feet up and relax on the balcony all the while watching the monsoon playing riot with the falling waters!

For more information visit www.rainforest.in.