Bamboo grove:
These tracks were left by a wild tiger, one of a few left in Periyar park:
And these tracks are from a wild jaguar. I asked the ranger how he can tell which is by a jaguar and which is by a tiger, and he said that it's by the distance between the claws:
In Indian jungle, tigers and jaguars are not the only things that have claws:
A tree being strangled by a ficus (pretty much everything you see here, except for the horizontal branches on the left, are the ficus):
Periyar lake was formed by a dam build in 1895 by the British during the colonial period in India.
When the dam was built, it flooded the valley behind it, where some tall teak trees had stood. Their remains are still visible sticking out of the lake today.
This is another lake, called Idukki Lake:
It is also held back by a dam, the Idukki dam:
Some general pictures from the Periyar park and surrounding Cardamom hills:
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