Captivating Kabini

Nred has a travelogue on Kabini River Lodge in Karnataka:

Although not a Marty-friendly place (no air conditioning, very little meat, and bone-jarring rides through the backwoods), Kabini offered peace and quiet and wonderful views of wildlife—not to mention a joyride on an elephant (my first). The place was full of pictures of from the days of the British raj–a delegation from Russia camped there in the 1890s, and the last British viceroy to stay at Kabini was Lord Mountbatten, shown in a 1933 photo with then Prince Edward (three years before he abdicated the throne to “marry the woman I love.”)