Dubare

Dubare: This is mainly an elephant-capturing and training camp of the Forest Department, at the edge of Dubare forest, on the bank of the river Kaveri, on the Kushalanagara - Siddapur road. Wild elephants are captured from the forest and trained here with the help of tame Forest Department elephants. The tame elephants are brought down to the river to bathe in the evening, and tourists may be offered elephant rides or invited to help in feeding the elephants, which are given cannon-ball sized ladoos made of jaggery and grain.

To reach Dubare: 40 kms from Madikeri. and 15 kms from Kushalnagar. If you are planing to go by bus from kushalnagar, you have to get down in Nanjarayapattana. From there its 3kms.