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Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary :India February 15, 2006

Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary is a beautiful forest reserve located in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. This national park occupies a special place in India’s efforts towards natural conservation. It was created in the 1930s from the local Maharaja Voodiyar. s hunting lands, and named Venugopal Wildlife Sanctuary. Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary was expanded later in 1941 to adjoin the Nagarhole Wildlife Sanctuary, which lay towards its northern edge, and Wynad and Madumulai Sanctuaries, which lay towards its southern edge in the states of Kerala and Tamilnadu, respectively. The entire area now constitutes the vast Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, one of India’s most extensive tracts of protected forest. It has been a designated tiger reserve in 1973.

Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the highway connecting Mysore and the hill station of Ootacamund (Ooty). It takes 2½ hours to reach Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary from Mysore and about 3 hours from Ooty. The nearest rail junction is Mysore (65 km) and the nearest international airport is the software Mecca of Bangalore (204 km).

This is a good destination which can be added for almost all the tours starting from Bangalore and heading towards Ooty and Kerala. You can easily make a circuit covering Nagarhole, Bandipur, Mudumalai and B R Hills which are the prime jungles of the area.

Bandipur is 80 km from Mysore, and a similar distance from Ooty, and takes 2 ½ hours by road. Mysore is further connected to the rest of south India by train, while a narrow gauge train comes to Ooty from the plains station of Mettupalayam. Mettupalayam has train connections to a number of other towns in Tamilnadu. Once you’ve got to Mysore or Ooty, you can take a bus or hire a car or taxi to get to Bandipur.

India Wildlife Tours offers online booking for wildlife tours to the Bandipur National Park located on the Mysore-Ooty Highway in Karnataka, India. For details please enter your query in the form provided below.


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