📍 Tiger Reserve🐅 Wildlife📍 Safari

Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India

4.5 (0)

Overview

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

Why visit: The Nilgiris' classic safari, minutes from Ooty's descent.

Things to do

›Forest-van safari
›Theppakadu elephant camp feeding
›Moyar valley viewpoints

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Jun (closed for fire season some years)

Entry fee

Safari van ~₹340

Est. budget

₹800–2,000

Duration

Half–1 day

Nearby attractions

Within

13.3 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

14.3 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

20 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