http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , India , Karnataka , Bandipur National Park en-us Thu, 10 Dec 09 12:03:58 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 09 12:03:58 +0000 Well my plan for the blog has been a bit thwarted. I had hoped to blog nightly on the train via wifi and Anna's laptop. Alas the internet for the last 7 days was not working. But as I have been told several times the 2 keys to travel in India are Patience and a Sense of Humor. Keeping this uppermost in my mind has made this a most beautiful and exciting trip. We rode a luxury train called the G http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/blog-356310.html Saturday 26th April 5.30am start. Cab is late. No surprise there it is India after all. Itrsquos off to Mysore this morning for a weekend of sightseeing and elephant and tiger hunting. Tigers are only seen ldquoif yoursquore very luckyrdquo and I was feeling luckyOur first destination after finding breakfast along the main highway is a small village 50km north of Mysore called Melk http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/blog-275687.html Just returned fom fabulous trip to state of Karnataka. Traveled to Bangalore via the superb Kingfisher Airline and then a 3 hour drive to Mysore through largly agricultural countryside bananas ricesugar cane Spent 2 days in Mysore visiting Temples old forts museums etc and learnt a little of the history. The bit I remember most is that the English fought 4 battles for Mysore loosing 2 and winn http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/blog-243436.html Life is so darn busy. This week was the reminder than I am still a student while I'm here. We have two tests a presentation a field trip and 20 or so engineering homework problems all coming up Thursday and Friday. Add in the fact that its our last week in Bangalore and we are trying to see it all between our 6 hours of class a day and you will see that I am a busy guy.I can't really complain http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/blog-79175.html Been thinking for a while to go on a WILD tour... into the jungle And did it finally.. along with a bunch of collegues from work. We went to this place called Tiger Ranch inside the Bandipur National Park. Except for tigers we saw everything else.We left directly from work at 7 in the morning. The scenic beauty en route is worth a mention with sugar cane fields and the Cauvery giving us compa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/blog-61865.html perhaps the truest of nature lies at the deepest of the jungles. and this very thoughtdrove us to the bandipur forest we started from bangalore at the wee hours ofmorning. after driving 230 kms taking a single stop at maddur for breakfastwe reached our destination bandipur. located at the foothills of mysoreootyhighway the place is a beauty with lush green and that drove us wild. from badi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/blog-15812.html I came and stood here a lil far from the lake for quite some time.'Ominous' is the word I would like to depict this place time with. Or that's what I thought for some moments. It's surprising how my mind changes opinions or rather gives second opinions about the surroundings once I get an appropriate adobe over the comfortable branch of a huge tree of this Jungle. Nay this is not written by http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bandipur-National-Park/blog-14154.html