Biligirirangans

The Biligirirangans are a forested hill range near Mysore, India. It is home to the Soligas who worship a massive Champak tree called Dodda Sampige.

The temple and town associated with Biligirirangaswamy forms the major hub of human activity here. The Jungle Lodges at Kyatadevaragudi (or K. Gudi) is an eco-tourism venture run by the Karnataka Forest deparment. The megafauna of the area includes gaur, elephant, sambar deer and chital deer, wild dog, leopard and tiger.

The book Going Back by Monica Jackson is a good introduction to the area written by the granddaughter of a Scottish coffee planter who brought coffee to these hills and daughter of the Hunter naturalist Colonel Ralph C. Morris.