This is an invitation to take part in one of the greatest elephant extravaganzas in Asia. This rare spectacle is all about raw intensity, wild passion, brute magnetism and a sense of unbrindled power being exuded by the very air around.

Quite the extraordinary thing about the kabini area is the existence of a mind blowing 60 Sq.kms of static water inside the forest precincts as a result of a dam built across the river. The water bifurcates the two national park, Nagarahole and Bandipur, but unites in glorious abandon on its shores, a spectacular range of wild life. From the gaint tusters to the mouse deer, to barking deer and chital, to herds of guar and sambar, to the rare but definitely ’spottable’ tiger and panther. and the sloth bear. And packs of Wild Dogs too. From either side of the two national parks. And the Birds? they flock together. painted storks. egrets, herons and ibis. kingfishers, babblers, drongos, bulbuls. the vultures soar high even as the crested serpent eagle sits in majesty, scanning the area seating itself on one of the innumerable stumps of wood that peep out of the waters surface in surrealistic beauty, vestiges of once proud trees submerged by the dam. To go on a safari through the same roads around the kabini area where once the grand royals of Mysore accompanied by mandarins of the british empire; the Viceroys, the Dukes, the Duchesses and the Czars traversed on their hunts is truly one of the greatest wildlife experiences in Asia.