Bandipur National Park lies on the half way down to the Mysore - Ooty highway. India's based-known wildlife reserves - Bandipur National Park is situated within Chamarajanagar district in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, and joints the South Indian states Tamil Nadu and Karala.

Blessed with a temperate climate and diverse geographical features, the park supports and outstanding varity of Flora and Fauna, making it an authentic paradise for wildlife. Bandipur Wldlife Sanctuary is one of the 15 sanctuaries belonging to the Project Tiger Scheme Launched in 1973, by the World Wide Fund for Nature. In 1974, the Bandipur was declared a National Park under the Wildlife Protection Act. The Bandipur National Park is one of its own kind in Asia as it has huge elephant herds.
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	Flora and Fauna in Bandipur National Park
	The Bandipur National Park is covered with a mix of deciduous forests, evergreen forests and scrub, which is provided by the waters of the Moyar River. The major types of fauna in this reserved are the Asian elephant, gaur, smbher, chital, mouse dear, four horned antelope, wild pig, black naped hare and the Indian porcupine. Apart from being home to the Asiatic elephant, Bandipur also has a large number tigers, which count around 66 in number. The scrub jungles conquests of stunted trees, bushes and open grassy patches. In the north-western area, the vegetation contains the open dry deciduous forests true tropical mixed deciduous forests.
	The Bandipur region is also rich in avian population. Peafowl and the game birds like the gray jungle fowl, red spur fowl etc. are the most common avins found in the national park. The kabini backwaters and the larger tanks attacks cormorants, ducks, herons, teals and waders. Among the woodlands birds the hawk eagle, serpent eagle, the collared scops owl, the yellow-legged green tigeon, parakeets, wood peckers and barbets, hornbills, deorngos, scarlet miivets, and the diverce warblers can be easily seen in the national park.
	Bandipur is a tourist's paradise April to Ooctobar. During summer, the back waters of the Kabini reservoir provided the best opportunity to tourists to observe the large mammals specially the elephant and the gaur. The best time to spot elephant herds is in the rainy season. Other animals found in this forest are gaur (a type of bull), sambher, chetal, mouse dear, four-horned antelope, wild boar, jackal, sloth bear, panther, malabar squirrel, porcupines and the black-naped hare.