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The Kill

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Our trip to Tadoba in 2014 had not been a very eventful one. We got sightings, but in most cases the sightings were fleeting or from far off. This summer we decided to take our chances again and booked our safaris in Tadoba and Ranthambhor. The Tadoba trip turned out to be awesome with sightings of Sonam and her 3 cubs, Maya and her 3 cubs, Madhuri and Wagdoh (Scarface). When we went to Ranthambhor it was peak summer. The temperatures had reached 48 C in Ranthambhor just a week before. We took the August Kranti Rajdhani Express from Mumbai to Sawai Madhopur (12953). We could not do the morning safari. Instead we did a tour of the Ranthambhor Fort which is a UNESCO world heritage site. The evening safari was very good with a very great sighting of T64. When we started our safari on 29th, we wondering if we had already seen the best of what Ranthambhor had to offer. After around an hour an half of the safari saw this tiger dozing off in the shade near some tall grass. Ev...
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Kanha - Call of the Wild

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We did the "Call of the Wild" tour conducted by MPTDC. This covered Jabalapur (Bhedatghat), Kanha, Badhavgarh and Panchmarhi. Needless to say, Kanha/Bandhavgarh were the highlights of the tour. With an area of around 1000 sq kms, this is one of the biggest parks in India and famous for its tiger population. The jungles of Kanha were the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling novel, Jungle Book. Our arrangements were done at the Baghera Log Huts. This is a great property. The food and accommodation is ok but the location is fantastic. It is within the national park. You get the feel of living in the jungle.We were able to see gaur, deer and monkeys from within the property. We were really lucky with the tiger sightings at Kanha. We got sighting for nearly each safari that we took.  The last sighting of the tiger that we had was special. As we were returning from the safari, we came upon a group of gaurs which were witnessing a fight between two males. The males were rig...
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Udaipur City Palace

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Famous internationally because of the James Bond Film Octopussy (1983), Udaipur City Palace is the largest Palace COmplex in Rajasthan. Rajasthan, Land of Kings, is a western state of India. The state has many clans and families that ruled the area for last 2000 years. City of Udaipur was established by Maharaja Uday Singh II in 1553 AD. After Udai Singh’s death in 1572, his son  Maharana Pratap  took the reins of power at Udaipur. However, he was defeated by the Mughal emperor Akbar at the  Battle of Haldighati  in 1576 and Udaipur fell under the Mughal rule. The City palace is now a bunch of constructions that went for over 400 years. You will see an influence of Mughal, Indian and British styles in various buildings. The palace is situated by Lake Pichola. Overlooking Lake Pichola, several historic monuments like the Lake Palace, Jag Mandir, Jagdish Temple, Monsoon Palace, and  Neemach Mata temple, are all in the vicinity of the palace  complex....
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