点评:My husband and I did the 1 night Tiger Trail camping trek and we had a fun adventure! The park is lovely and the guides were very kind. Knowing a tiger sighting is extremely rare, we had set our expectations accordingly and I was just hopeful for spotting some elephants (I know that isn't a guarantee either). And we lucked out in that regard ! We saw elephants (including a mama and her baby!) multiple times during our 27-ish hours in Periyar. We did multiple treks/trails on the first and second days with breaks for meals which was made on-site by a funny/nice cool/guide and was traditional Kerala food and very delicious. The campsite "basecamp" was set up with a trench around it to deter the wildlife, our tents, a sheltered space for the guides to sleep and cook and western-style toilets — all overlooking the beautiful lake. It's a more elevated "roughing it" and quite nice! In addition to elephants, we spotted plenty of boar (including a visitor at basecamp during dinner), deer, bison, king fishers, other birds and even tiger paw prints (but no actual tigers), which was pretty cool. Also lots of leeches were around, but the team provided us leech socks and they treated our shoes/socks with a leech powder to keep them off. Padiyan was our guide who has been there since either the beginning or close to the beginning of when the park began its tourism experiences and its program of rehabilitating poachers. Although he wasn't fluent in English, we still communicated well and he was a great guide! We enjoyed his guidance and ability to spot so many things on our paths. For this experience, my only negative experience was the booking process. The Periyar site has a great system, but it wouldn't allow foreign credit cards (at least from the USA) so I couldn't book/pay for the experience, and all of my emails and WhatsApp messages went ignored. Luckily, Spice Village the hotel we stayed at in Thekkady (which is walking distance and a FANTASTIC hotel) at booked it for us, so we didn't have to miss out on such a fun adventure.
翻译:我和丈夫参加了为期一晚的老虎小径露营徒步旅行,我们度过了一段有趣的冒险!公园很漂亮,导游也很友善。我们知道老虎的出现极为罕见,所以我们设定了相应的期望,我只是希望能发现一些大象(我知道这也不是保证)。在这方面我们很幸运!在佩里亚尔的 27 个小时里,我们多次看到了大象(包括一只妈妈和她的宝宝!)。第一天和第二天,我们进行了多次徒步旅行/小径之旅,中间有一次吃饭,一位风趣/友善的导游在现场为我们准备了传统的喀拉拉邦美食,非常美味。营地“大本营”周围有一条沟渠,以阻止野生动物,我们的帐篷、供导游睡觉和做饭的避风空间和西式厕所——所有这些都俯瞰着美丽的湖泊。这是一个更高处的“艰苦生活”,相当不错!除了大象,我们还看到了很多野猪(包括晚餐时大本营的一位游客)、鹿、野牛、翠鸟、其他鸟类,甚至还有老虎的爪印(但没有真正的老虎),这很酷。周围还有很多水蛭,但团队为我们提供了水蛭袜子,他们在我们的鞋子/袜子上涂了水蛭粉,以防止它们爬上来。Padiyan 是我们的导游,他从公园开始旅游体验和恢复偷猎者计划之初或接近之初就一直在那里。虽然他的英语不太流利,但我们仍然沟通得很好,他是一位很棒的导游!我们喜欢他的指导,也喜欢他能在我们的路上发现很多东西。对于这次体验,我唯一的负面体验是预订过程。Periyar 网站有一个很棒的系统,但它不允许使用外国信用卡(至少是美国的信用卡),所以我无法预订/支付体验费用,我所有的电子邮件和 WhatsApp 消息都被忽略了。幸运的是,我们在 Thekkady 住的酒店 Spice Village(步行距离内,是一家很棒的酒店)为我们预订了,所以我们没有错过如此有趣的冒险。