by Thomas | Jun 12, 2022 | Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Satpura
We went to Satpura Tiger Reserve and spent a couple of days staying at the incredibly amazing Bori Safari Lodge, a property of the Jehan Numa group situated near the gate of the Bori Wildlife Sanctuary. Chinmay, the manager of the Bori Safari Lodge took us on a full...
by Thomas | Mar 20, 2022 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We chose to drive into the Kabini backwaters zone on this afternoon drive. We drove all around the Kabini backwaters with no sightings. Towards late afternoon we heard alarm calls of Chitals and Langurs. We were soon joined by a couple of more jeeps. Our guide pointed...
by Thomas | Mar 13, 2022 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We started our afternoon drive into Kabini Tiger Reserve and this time around we took the MM road to check for Tiger activity, given the hot afternoon sun. And we reaped rich dividends when we spotted this Tigress cooling off in the water that was collected in a check...
by Thomas | Mar 6, 2022 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
We were yet again in our favourite Jungle Lodges property situated on the banks of the Kabini Backwaters in the Nagarhole National Park. Soon we headed out on our first safari of this visit and we drove around the whole evening with no sightings of any mammals....
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 | Jul 4, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
Continuing with our story of sighting the Tiger siblings in Bandhavgarh National Park – after Jobhi, the dominant female confronted one of the siblings, we waited with bated breath to see what would happen next. But fortunately for the second Tiger cub, the...
by Thomas | Jun 13, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
The Tiger brothers in Bandhavgarh who we were tracking had clearly caught the scent of a Tiger, as evident from their facial gestures. They took some more time to catch the scent and headed off gingerly along the tracks. The earlier aimless ambling had turned into a...
by Thomas | May 16, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
While on a safari in the Bandhavgarh National Park we heard from another driver that someone had spotted the sub-adult cubs of Dotty, the Tigress who owned this particular territory within the park. We drove around for a while in their search, but could not find them....
by Thomas | Apr 18, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
We started our morning safari into the Bandhavgarh National Park. The temperature was below 5 degrees as we waited at the gates to get into the park. It was still pretty dark as well as we entered the park. Here’s a glimpse of the camera-unfriendly weather as we...
by Thomas | Mar 21, 2021 | Animals, Bandhavgarh, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India
After the amazing sighting of the sub-adult Tigers at one far end of Bandhavgarh National Park, we headed back in the direction of the park gates while on the lookout for more wildlife. As we passed a man-made water saucer adjacent to the road, one of the last...
