🌄 Viewpoint🛕 Religious📍 Nature

Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta

Gundlupet, Karnataka, India

4.5 (0)

Overview

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.

Why visit: A temple in permanent mist above a tiger reserve — 'Himavad' means exactly that.

Things to do

›Venugopalaswamy temple
›Mist-line panoramas
›Wild elephant sightings
›Bandipur combo

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Travel Information

Best time

Sep–Feb; mornings (forest bus only)

Entry fee

Bus ₹60–100

Est. budget

₹300–700

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

11.3 km

🐅 Wildlife

4.6

Bandipur National Park

Gundlupet, Karnataka

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

Oct–May1–2 daysExplore

20 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

24.5 km

📍 Sanctuary

4.4

Muthanga & Tholpetty (Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary)

Sulthan Bathery, Kerala

The twin safari gates of the Nilgiri elephant corridor — dawn jeeps among tuskers, gaur and (with luck) tigers linking Bandipur and Nagarhole.

Sep–May; dawn slotsHalf dayExplore