The route through Kabini, Bandipur, and the Western Ghats unfolds South India’s wilderness as a seamless ecological progression. Kabini sets the tone with its river-driven habitats, where seasonal waters draw large elephant congregations and predators quietly patrol the forested edges. Bandipur alters the cadence to drier deciduous forests and open grasslands, creating expansive sightlines and vivid predator–prey interactions.
As the journey enters the Ghats, the landscape rises and deepens, steep valleys and ancient rainforests sheltering isolated evolutionary lineages of primates, amphibians, and birds found nowhere else. The experience culminates in Eravikulam, where high-altitude grasslands and rugged escarpments form the stronghold of the Nilgiri tahr, poised against cliffs beneath drifting cloud. Together, these landscapes reveal a region defined by layered diversity, ecological continuity, and quietly extraordinary wildlife encounters.
