The Bison sits at the meeting point of Karnataka’s Bandipur, Kerala’s Wayanad and Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai reserves, part of one of South India’s largest contiguous forest blocks. The lodge favours a quiet, naturalist-led style of stay, set among bamboo groves at the foot of the Western Ghats.
Cottages and suites built in natural materials, each with a private veranda facing the surrounding forest, simply furnished in keeping with the lodge’s understated style.
Regional Karnataka cooking alongside broader Indian dishes, served in an open dining area overlooking the grounds.
Game drives into Bandipur, nature walks through the surrounding forest, and access to the wider Nilgiri Biosphere’s exceptional elephant and gaur populations.
Bandipur forms part of the largest tiger and elephant landscape in South Asia, and sightings here often include large elephant herds and gaur alongside the reserve’s tigers and leopards.
The bamboo and teak mix here produces dappled, textured light very different from central India’s more open sal forests, worth exposing for deliberately rather than fighting.
Pugdundee’s community and conservation programmes extend to Bandipur’s buffer villages, with local staffing and support for habitat protection across the wider Nilgiri landscape.
To arrange a tailor-made journey to this lodge, speak with your Kipekee Journey Lead.
