- Thenmala
Thenmala is a tourist place near
Punalur town,Kollam district inKerala . The first eco tourism project in India is located at Thenmala. The Thenmala dam was built acrossKallada River . Thenmala is famous for being the shooting location in Malayalam and Tamil movies.Fact|date=February 2007Thenmala attracts foreign and domestic tourists with a host of attractions. Boating on the lake, a rope bridge, trekking, mountaineering, biking and amusical fountain . Thenmala is approachable both from Trivandrum and Punalur by road. The waterfall calledPalaruvi is a prime attraction nearby. Also nearby is a deer rehabilitation center where visitors can see deer in a forest setting and have a peep into a traditionaltree house used by forest dwellers to escape harm from wild animals.Other places near Thenmala areKulathupuzha ,Anchal ,Punalur ,Kamukumchery andShenkottah Tirunelveli Dist(Tamil Nadu). Themala is 72 km from Thiruvanathapuram and 16 km from Palaruvi Falls.But the road to Thenmala from Puliyara really suck making it a bad experience for tourists from nearby Tamil Nadu.
[http://thenmala.info Journey to Thenmala]
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