Nagarahole National

Nagarahole is literally means ‘Serpent River’ (Nagara=Serpent; Hole=River) in Kannada language. Nagarahole, spread over Mysore and Kodagu is covering an area of 847.981 Sq km. Nagarahole is an important Tiger Reserve in Karnataka and is a major hub of conservation under Project Tiger and Project Elephant. The Protected Area supports large assemblages of carnivores and herbivores: Tiger, Leopard, Asiatic wild dog and Sloth bear, Asiatic Elephant, Gaur, Sambar, Chital, Muntjac, Four horned antelope, Wild pig, Mouse deer and South-western langur.

We have visited this national park in dec 21 luck by chance, truly speaking we don’t have a plan for it, we went to irrupu falls, where take direction from gurds we decide to go nagarhole, there is a short cut road from iruppu falls around 20 km, it was take 30- 35 mins to reach kutta, and 5 mints more to reach forest gate, Only bus safari is available and charges 450 Rs each, children below 10 yrs charges is half, and no camera charges taken. Safari time is only 1 and half hours, Morning safari timing 6 am to 7:30 am, and 7:30 to 9:00 am, Evening safari 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm, and 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. We took 3:00 pm safari, once we cross park gate there was hundreds of spotted deer was found both side of road, after 10 km there was a forest guest house which I have enquired how to book but no proper reply we receive, the forest officers says book this online, at the gate there was two jeep available but they did not allow for jeep safari, when we asked for it, they have answer like to book in private. Bus safari is no where comparable to jeep safari, any how we have no other option, bus moves to the main roads only find spotted deer, sambar deer, barking dear, one elephant, jungle fowl, wild boar and dhole (wild dog), due to less open area in bus it is difficult for photography, wild dogs was found in action chasing deer for hunt, as the next safari start on 4:30, the return time is much punctual, Nagarhole has a potential to attract tourist, due to its variety and large numbers of wild life,