I hope you will enjoy my brief view of this holiday, I'm afraid I will have to work with the photographs taken during our safari, and our trip around central India.
No travel computer at that time, and I didn't take notes.
Our holiday was with The Travel Collection once part of Kuoni, I'm not certain they still exist in the same group.
I will start on the most exciting part of our Tiger Safari, because that was what it was advertised as, and what it was really was all us about for us.
Sighting of tigers however, was not promised!
It occurred within a few days of our tiger "hunt", infact my 61st birthday on the 24th March.
By way of a background 14 of us including our guide had been on a couple of reserves without a glimpse of a tiger, and it was our turn to sit in the lead jeep with the guide and two park guides/drivers.
Before we started on our way Pauline had "threatened" our guide with all sorts of trouble unless he found us a tiger, especially as it was my birthday.
So we set off at dawn through the gates of Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh.
Within a short while we stopped in a wooded area as there were signs of a tiger and alarm calls from monkeys, some said they could see the tiger in the undergrowth but try as we might, we couldn't see it.
Anyway onwards for about half an hour, and as we rounded the bend this is what we saw!
And so I started snapping!
and then another jeep or two,came up behind us, so he started to move off, I didn't even look around just kept on snapping
Later that day we returned to the reserve for our dusk trip and spotted a female trekking back through the undergrowth, she wasn't just in front of us like our male, but on an expected route back to where her cubs were left earlier in the day.
We were able to get some pretty good photo's, even with my old Fuji finepix.
This for both of us,(since our safari to Kenya) will never be forgotten, what a birthday present for me!
How I wish I had kept detailed accounts of this trip.
But never mind, I'll fill this blog with a few more photo's.
Other wildlife
(click on photo to enlarge)
Buildings temples tombs and mosques.
