🐅 Wildlife📍 Family🪂 Adventure

Dubare Elephant Camp

Kushalnagar, Karnataka, India

4.3 (0)

Overview

A Cauvery-bank forest camp where you wade across to scrub, feed and learn the lore of retired timber elephants, then raft the gentle rapids.

Why visit: Ethical, hands-on elephant time — bathing sessions at dawn are magic.

Things to do

›Elephant bathing & feeding
›Cauvery crossing
›Rafting stretch
›Nisargadhama nearby

Elephant InteractionRiver RaftingBoating

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–May; mornings

Entry fee

₹100–1,000 (activities)

Est. budget

₹500–1,500

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

8.2 km

🛕 Religious

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📍 Nature

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Nisargadhama Island

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A bamboo-thicketed Cauvery island crossed by a rope bridge — deer park, elephant sightings, treetop cottages and riverside picnics.

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19.8 km