Gopalaswamy Betta is a hill bordering Bandipur National Park. It is known for a temple built by the Chola Kings and later maintained by Wodeyar rulers of Mysore. Today, besides being a place of pilgrimage, it also sees many tourists coming to Badndipur National Park who drive up here to see a neverending stretch of of the forest from a high vantage point. It is not just humans who pay visit to the hill; elephants are frequently seen wandering atop in search of lush grass. Tiger sightings are also reported occasionally. While sighting wildlife has an element of luck involved, you can surely see a green carpet on the rolling hill during the monsoon and the winter months.
View of Bandipur National Park from Gopalaswamy Betta
The wishing tree at Gopalaswamy Temple
The hills around Gopalaswamy Betta
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Beautiful shots…
Betta means Mountain right? agenda for this year- visit a JLR property
Thanks Aarti. That doesn’t look like an difficult agenda. Just go for it
beautiful..been there quite a few times..yet to take some pictures
this was also once the head office of Veerappan and gang… Krupakar and Senani were kidnapped from here….
full name is himavad gopalaswamy betta… Himavad because of the mist that forms very often…
Btb can you increase the font size of comments? they’re too small
@lakshmi, thank you.
@Shrinidhi, thanks for the feedback; I will work on it. I think Kripakar and Senani were kidnapped from their house near park border at Melakamanahalli. Had read their book on the incident long ago, but have forgotten the details. I vaguely remember reading that they came to their house and lead them out.
Good One Aruna!
liked the frame of the “wishing tree and the temple”
Yes Kripa and Senani were kidnapped from their house, recently went through their story.
Thanks Deepak.
Beautiful scenes, Arun. What time of the year were these taken?
Thank you Anil. This was in December.