by Thomas | Nov 14, 2021 | Animals, Birds, Chhatrasagar, Featured, India, North India
We stayed a couple of nights at the gorgeous luxury tents of Raas in Chhatrasagar. Their location is spectacular – on the banks of the lake and you can see many species of birds right from the property. We took an evening drive into the grasslands and look at...
by Thomas | Sep 12, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Birds, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
We were on our last safari in Bandhavgarh National Park and were hoping to sign off in style with a good Tiger sighting. We started off our drive and spotted this Langur with a young one clinging to it. Given that it was on the forest floor, it looked very anxious and...
by Thomas | Sep 5, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, its been a while since we visited Maasai Mara and in this last post from our previous trip, on Maasai Mara, we wanted to include a few birds, animals and the beauty of the landscape of this absolutely amazing place. Here we go. The...
by Thomas | Aug 29, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
After watching the first Lion settling in the grass and going back to sleep, we headed to the other brother, who was still where we had left him, sleeping in the shade of the bushes. He seemed disturbed by the movements of the vehicles going after his brother, but he...
by Thomas | Aug 22, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
During our last evening game drive in the Maasai Mara Reserve, we got information that a couple of big African Lions were sighted near the crossing points close to the Mara Serena Lodge, where we were staying. We headed out straight to the location and found two...
by Thomas | Aug 15, 2021 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We were on our last safari of this trip in the Kabini backwaters of the Nagarhole National Park. Little were we aware that we would be ending our trip on a high. Many of us would have sighted a Spotted Deer mother with a suckling Fawn, however two Fawns suckling at...
by Thomas | Aug 8, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
Spotting a Black Rhinoceros, one of the endangered Big Five in Africa, is an amazing experience. And observing one as the only tourists around one who was foraging and kept moving closer to our vehicle in Maasai Mara, was taking it to a totally different level of...
by Thomas | Aug 1, 2021 | Animals, Birds, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
The Indian wilderness comes alive during the monsoons and Kabini backwaters is a great place to witness the vibrant lush green forests of India. Its also a time when you get to see huge herds of Chital or Spotted Deer and Chital stags with their gorgeous antlers. The...
by Thomas | Jul 25, 2021 | Africa, Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, Kenya, Maasai Mara
A game drive in Maasai Mara is always exciting given the wide variety of birds and animals. On this drive we got within striking (photography) distance to get some lovely pictures of two of the Big 5’s and frame filling compositions of the Hadeda Ibis. The...
by Thomas | Jul 11, 2021 | Animals, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
Spotted Deer, commonly known as Chital, are omnipresent in the Indian Wilderness and you get to see them in big herds by the Kabini Backwaters, in Nagarhole National Park. If you spend some time observing them, you might get rewarded with some amazing photo...
