🐅 Wildlife🦌 National Park📍 Nature

Bandipur National Park

Gundlupet, Karnataka, India

4.6 (0)

Overview

The flagship tiger reserve on the Ooty road — teak-and-terminalia forest where tiger, elephant, gaur and dhole cross between Nagarahole, Mudumalai and Wayanad.

Why visit: Karnataka's most reliable big-mammal safari, an easy drive from Mysuru.

History: Once the Mysore maharajas' hunting preserve; a Project Tiger founder reserve (1973).

Things to do

›Dawn jeep safari
›Elephant herds
›Gopalaswamy Betta combo
›Forest-lodge nights

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–May

Entry fee

Safari ₹350–3,000

Est. budget

₹1,500–6,000

Duration

1–2 days

Nearby attractions

Within

11.3 km

🌄 Viewpoint

4.5

Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta

Gundlupet, Karnataka

Bandipur's mist-wrapped summit — a 1,450-m hill inside the tiger reserve topped by a 1315 CE Krishna temple, with elephants often grazing the slopes below.

Sep–Feb; mornings (forest bus only)Half dayExplore

13.3 km

📍 Tiger Reserve

4.5

Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu's first tiger reserve on the Mysore road — elephant herds, dhole packs and leopard luck in teak country below the Nilgiri wall.

Oct–Jun (closed for fire season some years)Half–1 dayExplore

20.8 km

💧 Waterfall

4.3

Pykara Falls & Lake

Ooty, Tamil Nadu

The sacred Toda river stepping down twin cascades into a pine-fringed boating lake on the Mudumalai road.

Oct–Jun (falls best Jul–Dec)2–3 hrsExplore