Thenmala

Booking.com

Similar Attractions

Shimla Tourist Guide
Film Shooting Locations Uttrakhand Tours
Tirthan Valley Holiday Trekking Resort Guide
Auli Tourist Guide
Lachung Tourist Guide –Snow Capped Mountain Village of Sikkim
Best Travel Agency In MadhyaPradesh Indore - Holiday Travel India
Chennai Tourist Guide
Rewa Tourist Guide
Cochin Tourist Guide and Site Seeing Itinerary
Coorg tourist Guide – Land of Beauty

View More

Thenmala - Destination Overview
  • Package Prices
    Staring from Rs 8999/- including 2 nights/3 days hotel stay and full Thenmala site seeing and excursions

Thenmala
Thenmala is a tourist place near Punalur town, Kollam district in Kerala. It is located about 72 km from Thiruvananthapuram, and about 160 m above sea levelThe first eco tourism project in India is located at Thenmala. The Thenmala dam was built across Kallada River. Thenmala is famous for being the shooting location in Malayalam and Tamil movies.Thenmala is a small village at the foothills of Western Ghats and predominantly a forest area. The famous Shenduruney Wildlife Sanctuary is the most important ecotourism resource of Thenmala Ecotourism. This Wildlife Sanctuary is of about 100 sq. km. and harbors large varieties of flora and fauna. Thenmala : “Then + Mala” , i.e. in local parlance “Then” means honey and “Mala” means hillock i.e. it mean honey hills. The honey collected from Thenmala forest region is of good quality and of high medicinal value because of the unique floristic composition of the forests.