What makes Bandipur National Park a bustling tourist destination?

               The Bandipur Forest Reserve area is one of the better known tiger reserves in India. It lies just 80 km from Mysore and about 220 km from Bangalore.

               Bandipur National Park established in 1974 as a tiger reserve under Project Tiger, was once a private hunting reserve for the Maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore. The reserve in Bandipur stretches across the adjoining states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, in places called Mudumalai and Wayanad respectively. Together, they form the biggest protected forest reserve in Southern India and the largest habitat of wild elephants in south Asia. The park spans an area of 874 square kilometres, and supports a good population of endangered and vulnerable species like elephants, gaurs, tigers, sloth bears, muggers, antelopes and dholes.

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