Chellarkovil Community ecotourism Centre.

Chellarkovil ecotourism is a community initiative for a cool, clean and green planet. The project is being implemented in the true spirit of the ecotourism concepts accepted world wide. It’s nature based, ecologically sustainable, imparts education and benefits local people economically. It is managed by the Forest Department, Govt. of Kerala under its Participatory Forest Management Programme.

It is aimed to benefit almost 1000 families encapsulating an area of 750 Hectares in this village for afforestaion, nature awareness and environment protection activities.

The income generated through community eco tourism programmes are utilized for the afforestation, environment protection and for the benefit of local farming community.

The ecotourism activities are envisaged to centre around at Chellarkovil Ecotourism Community centre which is hardly 1kms. from our property. This land is vested with the Forest Department, Government of Kerala.

The facilities include a number of huts, a lovely watch tower, path ways, a herbarium of medicinal plants, a tourist amenity centre and an ecoshop. Visitors to this ecotourism community centre can walk through the winding path ways, lead through some huts, flowering plants, a variety of beautiful bamboos, a demo garden (ayurvedic/medicinal plants and herbs displayed with self explanatory label placards), and a lovely watch tower facing to the fabulous Tamilnadu valley.

There is an amenity centre and an eco shop functions here; Visitors can purchase some local products either produced by the villagers or sourced from other eco development committees. This includes forest honey, spices like pepper, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, vanilla, ginger, turmeric, aromatic turmeric, vettiver, home made products from women Self Help Groups(SHGs), local fruits etc.