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India is a country for its well known beauty of nature, hill stations, mountains, forests and wildlife sanctuaries, Among the various wildlife sanctuaries comes one of the famous and lavishly green wildlife sanctuary known as Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary. Mudumalai is famous for its elephant habitat and this is one of India's best sanctuaries.

Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary was the first sanctuary in south India. The land is extremely varied with hills, valleys, narrow valleys, waterways and swamps. It includes of tropical moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and scrub forests. Compared to the nearby reserves, the climate is warmer in Mudumalai.

The Famous Mudumalai wildlife Sanctuary is situated at an elevation of 1000 mts and extends over an area of 321 sq km. Mudumalai sanctuary lies between Kerala and Karnataka states. Mudumalai is located in the thick forests of the northern Nilgiri Hills where the fantastic screenshot of the Western ghats meet the Eastern ghats, in Tamil Nadu, India.

The range of Mudumalai wildlife Sanctuary is the same as in Bandipur (another famous sanctuary near it) but the Mudumalai has two features which makes different from its neighbors - the Moyar River and closeness to the Nilgiri mountain ranges which has variety of wildlife.

The Mudumalai wildlife Sanctuary has varied mixture of flat land, rising and falling parkland, open grassland, swamp, valleys and nullas. The Mayyar River in this area shapes a sequence of spectacular view on its way from Udhagamandalam - Mysore highway. Mudumalai wildlife Sanctuary could be reached from Mysore as well.

The main attraction in Mudumalai is Mudumalai wildlife Sanctuary. The Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary was set up in 1932, established in 1940 as a sanctuary. Since then has emerged as an important wildlife conservation park of India.