KABINI

Kabini is famous for its elephants, spell-binding landscape and water bodies which have been attracting tourists to its wildlife sanctuaries. Kabini is bestowed with resplendent streams, plentiful flora, fauna and avifauna. The serene wildlife sanctuaries in Kabini are naturally made splashy with sweet chirpings of bird, sounds of animals and gushing waters. The Kabini River:Kabini River emerges from Wayanad district of Kerala state and forms the confluence ofPanamaram River and Mananthavady River to join Kaveri River in the east at Tirumakudalu Narasipura in Karanataka which empties into the Bay of Bengal. Located in the town of HD Kote, the Kabini reservoir dries down in summer to form rich grassy meadows. Nagarhole National Park:The Nagarhole National Park was declared as a National park in 1974 and forms a habitat for Asian elephants and is surrounded by shallow valleys and gentle slopes on all sides. The Irpu Falls:The 60 m high fresh waterfalls, the Irpu falls, also called the Lakshmana Thirtum Falls in the Bhramagiri Range in the middle of the awe-inspiring Western Ghats is a much more attractive pilgrim spot regularly visited by a stream of tourists. The Lakshmana tirtha River flows closeby it and joins Kaveri River at a later stage. There is a Famous Rameshwaram Temple on the banks of the river Lakshmana-Thritha and another temple dedicated to Sri Ram amidst paddy fields and the natural forest covered way leads upeards to the falls. Excluding the waterfalls all the other places are a part of the sanctuary. One has to get prior permission to step into the wildlife sanctuary.