A Holiday in the Lap of Nature at Masinagudi and Bandipur
Lying on northwestern slopes of the Blue Mountain, popularly known as the Nilgiri Hills - The Mudumalai National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary and tiger reserve is divided into five areas – Masinagudi, Mudumalai, Thepakadu, Kargudi and Nellakota. If you are looking for a secluded and quiet vacation amidst the mesmerizing greenery of the Nilgiri hills – Masinagudi can always be a better destination compared to Bandipur – which is the more popular one as a tourist destination. Offering excellent opportunities for sighting wildlife, Masinagudi is also one of the most popular destinations for ornithologists and bird watchers and some of the rare and almost extinct birds can still be sighted in this area. Though most of the Masinagudi resorts are pretty expensive, but of late a number of new resorts have come up here and finding an accommodation against a reasonable tariff might not be too much difficult a problem. You can quite easily find a few jungle resorts in Masinagudi offering superb and excellent quality accommodation for the visiting tourists. In order to offer their guests view of the most beautiful parts of the jungle and the hills, most of the Masinagudi resorts are built in strategic locations. Though no resort is there inside the prohibited sanctuary area, tourists can still enjoy the lush greenery of the forests and the blues and green hills of the Nilgiri range right from inside their rooms and a visit to Masinagudi has all the potential to be one of the beat nature trips in their entire life. If you are looking to stay in Masinagudi with a difference many of the resorts in Masinagudi offer jungle cottages to allow you to reach much closer to the mesmerizingly beautiful nature all around. One of the best attractions of staying in these Masinagudi jungle cottages is that though these cottages look rustic from the outside, they offer lavish comfort inside and perfectly blend in with the natural surroundings all around it. Living in these cottages can give you the real thrill of living amidst the woods. The Masinagudi National Park and Wildlife sanctuary are accessible to tourists only for a few months of the year – during the winter and late summer and if you want to book an accommodation in any of the Masinagudi jungle resorts or Bandipur resorts you will always do well to book your accommodation well in advance due to the heavy rush of the tourists during those few months of the tour. For nature lovers, bird watchers and wildlife photographers – both Masinagudi and Bandipur are the most favorite destinations in the country and the resorts in Bandipur and Masinagudi are certainly the best places for finding an accommodation in these places. But as these reserve forests are steadily growing in popularity among tourists and nature lovers a range of government rest houses, circuit houses and forest department bungalows have also come up in the area and if you are looking for something really cheap and affordable there are also some home stay options available there allowing you to find an accommodation within a very reasonable price.