Sullia: Trees inching towards the sky, medicinal plants giving healing touch, fruit bearing trees, an attic made of bamboo, ponds covered with beaming lotus flowers, sugar cane cultivation, artifacts carved out of bamboo and the list goes on.
Isn’t this a perfect setting for a holiday?
Is this a meditation centre or a resort in the making?
Believe it or not, it’s a Sugarcane juice centre called “Shilpam Day Spot” on Sullia-Subramanya Road.
Forest field camps and excursion for little children of town limits, water harvesting lessons and many more activities in a land of one acre gives countless opportunities for the visitors who drop in to savour a glass of sugar cane juice.
Diversity of nature displayed with identification labels on 40 trees makes the location a natural theme park. The architect behind this beautiful nature friendly location is Sathya Taloor and his venture enthralls around 250 visitors a day.
It all started when rubber prices nosedived. Sathya Taloor thought of setting up a sugar cane juice centre to support his own living. He started cultivating sugarcane using bio-fertilizer and gradually as a hobby he started planting trees and his untiring efforts eventually turned to a ‘must visit location’ for all those travelling on the road between Sullia and Subramnaya. Gradually, he developed the area with his own ideas and anyone who visits his juice centre to guzzle a juice, ends up spending hours together at the beautiful spot. People don’t miss an opportunity to visit this nature friendly juice centre.
Sathya says when children run around and play games, it gives him immense satisfaction. He organizes training camps to educate young children on natural habitat, biodiversity and water conservation.
When the forests are disappearing at a rapid pace, the scorching heat of summer is making life difficult for people. Sathya’s effort of creating a natural biological park, within his own land and earn a living out of it is a praiseworthy effort. The place remains evergreen throughout the year as the ground water gets replenished by water harvesting.
Sathya has plans of including a water fountain to enhance the beauty of the location. He intends to create a lasting impression in the minds of all visitors and hopes that such theme parks by nature lovers make a difference to the planet we live in.
