Bandipur National park

-
Lot of discussion was happing in office break time about some outing, Sunil & Pradeep wanted to go to Bandipur National park. Even for me, it’s been quite long time I visited beautiful forest. We planned to visit Bandipur on last week of August.

Bandipur is around 230 Kms from Bangalore, We can take Mysore road to reach Bandipur, hardly it will take around 5 hours to reach Bandipur (depends on traffic in all the cities we cross and road condition).

Most importantly Bandipur Forest will be closed from 9.00 PM to 6.00PM. Keeping all this things in mind we left Bangalore at 11.30PM, our plan was to leave Bangalore bit late to avoid weekend traffic and reach Gundlupete and stop near Café Coffee Day. You will get many Café coffee day on this Mysore road and its perfect place to do time pass.

After crossing Mysore road condition is not so good (they are constructing road and work is in progress, not sure when they are going to complete it) till Gundlupete. We reached Gundlupete around 2.30 AM café coffee day and done time pass till 6.00AM.






















Hardly it will take 20 Mins to reach Bandipur check post from Gundlupete. Safari timings in Bandipur are 6.30AM to 9.30AM and again 3.30PM to 6.30PM. They will charge you 300 rupees and it will be almost 2 hours ride inside the forest.

After seeing the forest vehicles only I was very disappointed, these vehicles are very old and it was  making hell lot of sound (In case if some animals is roaming near that jeep track that also will run away by listing the sound of these vehicles..!!). Even the smoke coming out of vehicle… Opps it was horrible. 

 Once our safari started with in 5 mins only we were lucky to see 2 Elephants in short distance. 



We were waiting to see many more animals on this safari, but we were not so lucky to see many animals. We could site only these animals. 























Again I remembered this line ‘One should be very lucky to see wild animals’ which is 100% true…!!!!
One more thing just wanted to add here (it’s my personal experience) we will see many animals on road while crossing Bandipur forest than taking safari..!! 






Location: Bandipur National Park, Bandipur, Karnataka 571126, India

Comments

  1. stemians11 November 2018 at 23:42

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Unknown11 November 2018 at 23:47

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Kabbalu Betta Trekking

-
Image
Kabbalu betta trekking is one of the options for the hikers around bengaluru and located near Kanakapura talluku. Its   around 80Kms from Bengaluru. We have couple of options to reach Kabbalu:  Bangalore > Ramnagar > Chenpatna > Kabbalu (82 KMs) Bangalore > Kanakapura > Satanuru >Kabbalu (87 Kms) I had been to this place many times before but could not get a change to trek this hill, it is one of the best places for those who wish to start trekking.  Since it’s a last minute plan, could not invite anyone for this trekking. But the special thing about this trekking is my brother Kiran joined me for this trekking. It was the first trekking with my brother.  Just to escape from the weekend traffic and the heat we started early morning around 6.00AM from Bengaluru and took Kanakapura Road to reach our destination. Even though it’s a single road the drive was awesome, last night rain added more beauty to the surrounding environment. ...
Read more

Horsley Hills

-
Image
Horsley Hills is one of the perfect weekend getaway from Bengaluru, a bike ride to Horsley Hills offers a thrilling and scenic adventure. Located in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, Horsley Hills is approximately 150 KM from Bengaluru, making it an ideal destination for a short road trip.   We can take multiple routes to reach Horsley Hills but we chose,   Bengaluru – Hoskote – Chintamani – Madanapalle – Horsley Hills route. Its approximately 150 KM from Bengaluru and need 4-5 hours (depending on number of breaks we take).   The road conditions are generally good, with a mix of highways and country roads. After Hoskote, it's a single road, but the condition is relatively good. Be cautious of some potholes and patches after crossing Chintamani. Arvind and I started our ride at 5:30 AM to avoid city traffic and enjoy the cool morning breeze. The roads were relatively empty, and the slight drizzling added to the beauty of the journey. After riding for about 30 kilome...
Read more

Sri Dharmagiri Manjunathaswamy Devalaya

-
Image
Sri Dharmagiri Manjunatha Swamy Temple is a very Popular Hindu Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva located near Banashankari 2 nd stage. Devotees visit this temple on a daily basis as Regular Bhajans and Veda chanting are conducted at this temple. Temple is open for the visitors from Morning 7.30 Am to 11.30 Am and evening 05.30 Pm to 08.30 Pm. This is very good temple to visit with family, it provides peace to mind and heart of the devotees while walking across this temple. Though temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva, there are many other temples. This place is also very famous for shooting movies and Kannada serials 😊
Read more