Dubare
State : Karnataka
Distance : 227 km SW of Bangalore. Journey time by road 6 hrs.
Location : the dubare forest a popular haunt with tuskers lies on the south bank of the cauvery in eastern Kodagu
Route : SH 17 to srirangapatna bypass to coorg via Ranganathittu; Sh 88 to Guddehosur intersection via Hunsur and Kushalanagara state road to Dubare via hosapatna
For a river that’s so woven into the fabric of coorg there pfecious little you see of the cauvery. It leaps down from its perch at Talakaveri on Brahmagiri and disappears only to reappear like a divine goddess at Bhagamandala where it meets the descent breaks up the stream into tributaries that form such a lattice of rivulets it could teach FMGG companies a thing or two about distribution. It is this network of veins that breaathes life into coorg making it a living pulsating organism. While nearly every estate has its own stream or waterfall the main river silently slides through a thick forest cover unnoticed if it weren’t for the bridge after Kushalnagar you wouldn’t even know it existed
But the river runs almost parallel to an 18-KM backlane that connects guddehosur to the Madikeri – Siddapur Road. This unexplored stretch of the cauvery, hemmed in by the Dubare Reserve Forest and the road is one of the best riverside jaunts in coorg. So hopelessly exposed, the river is forced to disgorge its little known treasures the glint of a mahseer’s scales the frolicking of elephants, the splash of blue of a white – throated kingfisher the childish gurgle of the river and the dull dwoop of a wild mango falling into the river before being swept away.
Dubare Elephant Training Camp
Jungle lodges runs the elephant training camp sandwiched berween the south bank of the cauvery and the dubare reserve forest a place to watch elephant in different states of euphoria Traditionally this was where the elephant for the mysore dasara used to be trained currently they lead a pensioner’s life used mostly for jungle rides and sometimes for capturing new recruits with help rom the local Kuruba tribes. The camp being developed as a wildlife adventure camp is home ti 14 elephant. Jungle lodges plans to build riverside tents and develop sport fishing in the second phase. For now the camp serves as a partical info-centre on bangalaore
Distance : 227 km SW of Bangalore. Journey time by road 6 hrs.
Location : the dubare forest a popular haunt with tuskers lies on the south bank of the cauvery in eastern Kodagu
Route : SH 17 to srirangapatna bypass to coorg via Ranganathittu; Sh 88 to Guddehosur intersection via Hunsur and Kushalanagara state road to Dubare via hosapatna
For a river that’s so woven into the fabric of coorg there pfecious little you see of the cauvery. It leaps down from its perch at Talakaveri on Brahmagiri and disappears only to reappear like a divine goddess at Bhagamandala where it meets the descent breaks up the stream into tributaries that form such a lattice of rivulets it could teach FMGG companies a thing or two about distribution. It is this network of veins that breaathes life into coorg making it a living pulsating organism. While nearly every estate has its own stream or waterfall the main river silently slides through a thick forest cover unnoticed if it weren’t for the bridge after Kushalnagar you wouldn’t even know it existed
But the river runs almost parallel to an 18-KM backlane that connects guddehosur to the Madikeri – Siddapur Road. This unexplored stretch of the cauvery, hemmed in by the Dubare Reserve Forest and the road is one of the best riverside jaunts in coorg. So hopelessly exposed, the river is forced to disgorge its little known treasures the glint of a mahseer’s scales the frolicking of elephants, the splash of blue of a white – throated kingfisher the childish gurgle of the river and the dull dwoop of a wild mango falling into the river before being swept away.
Dubare Elephant Training Camp
Jungle lodges runs the elephant training camp sandwiched berween the south bank of the cauvery and the dubare reserve forest a place to watch elephant in different states of euphoria Traditionally this was where the elephant for the mysore dasara used to be trained currently they lead a pensioner’s life used mostly for jungle rides and sometimes for capturing new recruits with help rom the local Kuruba tribes. The camp being developed as a wildlife adventure camp is home ti 14 elephant. Jungle lodges plans to build riverside tents and develop sport fishing in the second phase. For now the camp serves as a partical info-centre on bangalaore
Phone No : 080 – 5597021 / 24 / 25. tariff – 200.
Will offer accommodation after December 2003. until then, it welcomes day-trippers. The tariff includes tea and snacks, the services of a naturalist who’ll enlighten you about elephant conservation with the tuskers.
White Water Rafting
The best things up for grabs here is seasonal white – Water rafting down the cauvery till Cauvery Nisargadhama, recently introduced and run by Jahn Pallared for jungle lodges. You start at 8-30 am and spend the next there hours gliding down the river than take a 45 minute drive back to Dubare which is covered in the cost of Rs 800. children should be
above 12 years to participate and adults should have no medical problems / conditions.
Contact jungle lodges Bangalore
Phone No : 080 – 5597021 / 24 / 25
The Last Resort’s Raj Shekhar
Phone No : 91-9844065705
Coorg Dale’s Geoffrey Muthanna
Phone No : 08276 – 297496 to book your white water rafting trip.
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