Bandipur

Bandipur...naam bade aur darshan khote !!!

Me and two of my colleagues went to this place called Bandipur, 80 kms from Mysore, that makes it almost 220 odd kms from Bangalore.
Logistics -
Route :: Drive down from Bangalore, road upto Mysore is a part of SH and so is good. From Mysore one needs to take the route to Ooty, 80 kms down the road is our Bandipur, a stretch of around 20 odd kms is very bad on this road.

Accomodation :: There are few private resorts around the Sanctuary and a one Govt. one on this side of KA-TN border and similar facility on the other side.
As expected, Govt. ones are quite reasonable but requires prior booking, and are generally full house over weekends.
Private ones have vivid range availabe, and the standard is okayish.

Food :: One can survive

Safari ::
There are two options available here, Govt. one or the Provate, timings for both are ealry morning and evening (suits animals)...
Privates resorts generally make is a package deal of food, lodging, safari...( I prefer otherwise).

So howz the Sanctuary :: A question I would be answering to few people for couple of day. Its a good outing place, but when you go there with high hopes of finding some wild animals there..you get nothing but disappointment. I mean the only animals I could spot were, monkeys, deers, cows, buffalos, elephants, mangoose, peacock...need to say more. Will put some snaps here and on FB soon.

Otherwise trip was good, it was kind of first and last one with Abhishek before he moves to Delhi !!! and ya I found out that Giri drives well, even if someone is sleeping beside the driver's seat :P....

On the whole, its a nice place to explore, depends on your luck, we were unlucky to not to find Tiger there :-(...others might be lucky :-)