Tigers! - Blogabond

Sooo... From Varanasi and holy water to Corbett national park for some tigersafari!

The town close to The nationalpark is a dusty noninteresting place, so the first thing we did when arriving at 0500 in the morning was getting a hotel and some nice sleep.

Once that task was finished(after about 4 hours...zzzzzzzzzz) we set out to find some info about the park, for prices and such. We also needed to rent a jeep for the safari. Luckily we bumped in to an italian guy that wanted to share the jeep with us so it got a little bit cheaper. We also wanted to do a Elephantride, but no one could really tell us much about this, apparently ity is impossible to book, the one who arrives first there gets to go. anyway, we just had to hope for the best.

The gates for the park opens at 0600. so we told our driver to pick us up at 0500, because we wanted to be the first so we could book the elephant ride. He was 45 minutes late though(bastard) and the only answer we get is ok ok, no problem... whenever you complain here it is just like that, no problem. Everything is possible...
Well luckily we were first at the gate anyway, picked up our guide and went in to the park. We arrived at the place for elephants and were told that we had to come back at 1400 to book. So pretty much no one could guarantee us anything.

The Park is very nice though and has lots of animals. We saw three types of deer: Samba

deer, spotted deer and barking deer. There is also 2 types of monkeys,

wild boar and lots of peacocks. And lots of other birds like parrots and woodpeckers. There is also wild elephants but we did not see any. We also stopped at a lookout tower searching for tigers and other animals, but only spotted a deer and some

parrots. While we were there it started raining though and there was some massive thunder and lightning. Absolutely beautiful! It felt like a big storm was coming in.
And as for the tigers, they were invisible this day, we did see some tigers pawprints that we followed for a while but unfortunatly we did not see one. We were a bit disappointed but not too much. Agnes did her best to look convincing as a tiger though. She does'nt look like one but I think she can be more dangerous...

Once back at the camp at 1400 we managed to book a Elephantride for 1530! They are just such cool animals! The ride lasted for 2 hours and took us to places the jeep could

not go. In the jungle. Every once in a while the elephant stops for a snack and uses its trunk(the long nose, snabel in swedish) to grab branches of leaves from the trees to eat.
It is totally the best experience in the park, just so quiet and amazing to be on this big

animal going through the jungle. We did not see any new animals during this time except for an eagle, but is was such a different and better experince from the jeep ride.

We enjoyed our day, especially the elephant, but the park is a bit disorganised so it takes some fun of it, I think we would have been disappointed without our bigeared friend to ride on.

So much for now, we are in rishikesh and tomorrow heading for Delhi!

Kiss kiss!

Ola and Agnes

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agnesola on March 22, 2008 from Ramnagar, India

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Om shanti!! I hope that you are better from the stomachincident Ola, and I hope that Agnes did not get any of that!!! Elephants are beautiful and look so wise. They know things, you can tell just by looking at them.To bad that the tigers did not show up. Have a nice last week in India,take care and have a nice trip home to Europe. Kram, kram Titti!!

written by Titti Claesson on March 24, 2008

I really enjoyed your India post and photos! I haven't been there yet but I think it will be my next trip! My blog is looking for travel stories, photos, etc, to share. If you have the time, check it out at dirty-hippies.blogspot.com, or email us at dirtyhippiesblog@gmail.com. Continued fun on your travels!

Heather :)

written by Heather on May 13, 2010

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