Day 56 - Tiger Safari

We have spent today in an open-top safari bus looking at the local wildlife. It’s been a long day (up with the sun and in the park till sunset - 3 hrs each). We covered two different areas of the park - unfortunately neither had a tiger present when we were there. We did see other things though:
- lots of deer (Sambar and Spotted deer);
- antelope;
- several crocodiles (very big - circa 12 feet);
- mongoose;
- water hogs;
- peacocks;
- large egrets, herons, storks, partridges, pond heron, a kingfisher, and lots of little brown birds; and
- banyan trees (with the roots reaching down from the branches).
Today was women's day at the temple just outside the National Park Gate, after two days of fasting(!), so there were hundreds of women walking several miles along the access road. There seemed to be quite a party atmosphere.

To make up for the lack of tigers we have had outfits tailor made (Mark’s whilst we were in the park). Mark's has got tigers on it!

Hopefully a bit more of a lie in tomorrow as we have some more early mornings scheduled for the next few days.Read more