In The Pink
Cast your mind back a few years to October 2011. Can you remember what you were doing that month? Sandra and I were on a visit to India. We’d spent a week in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan before arriving in Delhi at the start of a tour of India’s Golden Triangle to visit Udaipur, Jaipur with the p...
Camp Unicorn
After a night’s rest at a New Delhi Airport hotel, we fly to the city of Guwahati in the northeastern state of Assam and then drive for 6 hours to Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This really is close to the northeastern tip of India, with Bhutan to the northwest, Bangladesh t...
Tiger By Its Tale…..and Growl
Our final destination in the state of Madhya Pradesh is Bandhavgarh National Park & Tiger Reserve, a long but fascinating 6 hour drive from Kanha, passing through numerous villages and small towns on market day. Bandhavgarh seems to be the “go to” national park for tourists wanting to be all but s...
Bear Necessity…..
Kanha National Park & Tiger Reserve covers a vast area in the state of Madhya Pradesh - dense forest, interspersed with almost treeless plains and meadows some of which are areas of where once were villages that were relocated when tiger conservancy started in earnest in the early’70’s. Kanha also...
Pench’oners Spotting Leopards!
Our next stop is at the Jamtara Wilderness Camp, a 30 minute drive along heavily rutted dirt tracks from one of the gates into Pench National Park and Tiger Reserve. The park itself is split between the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, but mostly in the latter and was a 5 hour drive north f...
Where’s That Tiger…..?
Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, around 100 miles (150km) south of Nagpur is the least visited of the national parks in Maharashtra, partly due to difficult access and partly due to limited accommodation. It’s home to some 90 tigers as well as much other Indian wildlife. The park gates are only open fr...
Dead Centre
”Way off the main tourist routes, the isolated city of Nagpur holds the distinction of being in the dead geographical centre of India”. So says the lonely planet guide! Sounds like our sort of place!! Not such a nowhere place though being one of the three cities chosen to host the 2023 G20 Summit! F...
Home Coming
May sound a bit odd, but arriving in India does have somewhat of a feel of “coming home”. After all, Delhi is where we first met getting on for 53 years ago. The Indian state of Rajasthan is where we were a little over 12 years ago when we heard that Kimberly had gone into labour and Bennett arrived...