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Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary
About 57 km from Kalpetta by road, near Periya
- Type: Botanical sanctuary (private, visits by day tour)
- Timing: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (day tours, Monday to Saturday)
- Holiday: Sun
- Fee : not published
- Contact: not published
Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary is a conservation garden near Periya in northern Wayanad, founded by Wolfgang Theuerkauf in 1981 at the edge of a rainforest reserve. It grows rare and threatened plants of the Western Ghats, among them ferns, mosses, balsams, orchids, aroids and gingers, and returns them to the wild.
Visits are by botanical day tour, Monday to Saturday, offered in several languages including English and Malayalam; book ahead with the sanctuary. Sources: gbsanctuary.org, Rainforest Concern.
