Kerala Edakkal Tours
South India Kerala Tours - Tours To Edakkal, in the Wayanad District of Kerala, is renowned for its Neolithic cavesites.
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Located at an altitude of 1000 meter on Ambukutty Mala near Ambalavayal, the Edakkal caves or more precisely the intriguing rock engravings in them, have attracted the attention of the archaeologists and the historians alike.From the New Stone Age pictorial writings on the wall, it can be ascertained that civilization exited in these regions in prehistoric times and that the
Kerala Edakkal Tours caves have been inhabited at various phases in history.
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According to the popular legend associated with Edakkal, the caves were formed when the arrows were fired by Lava and Kusha, the twin sons of Lord Rama.
The Edakkal Caves were first stumbled upon by the then superintendent of police on the Malabar District, Fred Fawcet.
On a hunting expedition to Wayanad, he came across a Neolithic Celt. His curiosity was ignited and he went about making local enquiries and carried on with the simultaneous explorations of the high ranges in Wayanad. In was in the course of one such expedition that he chanced upon the Edakkal rock shelter. From the etchings on the rock, Fawcet concluded that these caves sheltered the Neolithic people.If you have an interest in primitive history, make sure to include a tour to Edakkal in your Kerala tour itinerary.The Edakkal Caves were said to have formed naturally, when out of some natural causes, three massive boulders got disoriented in such a way that one rested on the other two, with some part of it jutting out and forming the roof in between.
The cave walls are adorned with numerous scriptures and carvings depicting prehistoric men and their ways of life. At Edakkal there are stone scripts, cave drawings and pictorial inscriptions of human and animal figures with unique head dresses, swastik representations, stars, wheels, bows, knives, palm trees etc. These drawings resemble the 7000 year old straight line cave drawings found only in Stiriya in the European Alps and certain rocky places in Africa.
About Edakkal
The two caves at Edakkal are about 30 ft deep, and the wall inscriptions are of immense historical significance.Though the origins of these cave drawings have not yet been traced with certainty, they are still evocative enough to lure tourists from far and wide to embark upon a tour to Edakkal.They provide an excellent depiction of the highly civilized pre-historic people and their habitats. These caves can be accessed only through a 1 km trek route from Edakkal. The journey to the top is an extremely challenging one, but the excellent scenic beauty all around - acres and acres of green forest and hillocks, are sure to bowl you over on your tour to Edakkal. Apart from some of the straight lined drawings found in Stiriya and in some rocky passes of Africa, Edakkal caves etchings are the only extant specimens of straight lined drawings whose preservation has been taken up by the Archaeological Survey of India. Southindiatourtravel.com is an international travel site and a repository of useful information on
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