Morning after breakfast check out the hotel and drive to south coorg to visit iruppu waterfalls a beautiful tourist attraction and a gorgeous waterfall cascading along the brahmagiri mountain range in the coorg district. The park is located at a distance of 75 kilometres from the city of coorg.
The park is also called rajiv gandhi national park and is spread in a sprawling area of 247 square miles.
Nagarhole national park coorg tourism. Thank god its nagarhole to enjoy a safari at this beautiful reserve forest you can either stay at kutta town adjacent to the south gate of the park or at wayanad which is closer to the west gate. The national park is one of india s premier tiger reserves and has rich forest cover. Tripadvisor has 4 851 reviews of nagarhole national park hotels attractions and restaurants making it your best nagarhole national park tourism resource.
To reach nagarhole national park by rail one has to alight at the mysore station which is at a distance of 80 kilometres from the park. Coorg is an astonishing land located on the eastern slopes of the western ghats of karnataka state. How to reach nagarhole national park by rail.
Nagarhole national park tourism. Then proceed to nagarhole national park also known as rajiv gandhi national park. Nagarhole national park is a national park located in kodagu district and mysore district in karnataka india.
This park was declared the thirty seventh project tiger tiger reserves of india in 1999. Nagarhole a combination of two kannada words nagara signifying cobra and hole signifying river justifies its name completely as several streams serpentine through the rich tropical forest of this national park. Nagarhole national park also knows as rajiv gandhi national park is located in the two districts of karnataka namely mysore and kodagu.
Nagarhole national park tourism. Nagarhole national park is located in the western ghats and is part of coorg district. Some of the most popular tourist destinations of coorg include abbey falls omkareshwara temple.
Spread over an area of 571 square km in the districts of coorg and mysore the nagarahole sanctuary is 68 km from virajpet and 94 km from mysore via hunsur and murkal and 236 km from bangalore the rajiv gandhi national park is flanked by karnataka s bandipur national park and kerala s wynad wildlife sanctuary. Tripadvisor has 4 841 reviews of nagarhole national park hotels attractions and restaurants making it your best nagarhole national park resource. The train ride from bangalore pune and hyderabad to coorg takes 2.
It is one of india s premier tiger reserves along with the adjoining bandipur tiger reserve and wayanad wildlife sanctuary. The coorg tourism and coorg tour packages. Coorg is the misty land and popularly known as scotland of india.
If you approach the forest gate directly for a safari the timings are 6 00 am to 8 00 am and 3 00 pm to. Nagarhole national park in coorg is a place where one can see a wide variety of flora and fauna.
