Blogs from Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India, Asia - page 3

Schon wieder klingelt der Wecker vor 06 Uhr...aber da Tiger angeblich morgens jagen, könnte es sich auch heute lohnen. Um 07.00 Uhr haben wir dann alle Teilnehmer unserer Jeep-Tour eingesammelt und sind auf dem Weg in den Nationalpark. Es ist saukalt auf dem offenen Verdeck und ich habe alle meine Klamotten an, eine Decke um und friere trotzdem. Ein paar ganz coole Inder sitzen aber auch in Flip-Flops und T-Shirt da und bibbern vor sich hin (natürlich wollen sie nicht unsere zweite Decke haben...zu uncool). Leider fährt Nicole aus Oregon, die wir beim Abendessen kennengelernt haben, auf eine andere Tour mit. Wir fahren in Sektor 5 des Ranthambore Nationalparks, hier wurde gestern früh ein Tiger gesehen. Insgesamt sollen laut Reiseführer noch ca. 20 Tiger hier leben, laut unserem Tiger-Sucher/Tourguide etwa 35, wobei der Reiseführer auch zwei ... read more

Excellent long sleep then breakfast in the sun...on the way to the hotel yesterday we had passed a sign which said 'Tribal Wild Women Craft' - what magic marketing - the girls for the Craft and the boys intrigued by the Wild Women..... The reason we came to Ranthambhore was to visit the Ranthambhore National Park, an unfenced 400 square kilometer natural park where if lucky you can see, all in natural habitat - tigers, leopards, jungle cat, caracel, black bear, sambar deer, spotted deer, crocodiles, black faced monkeys - to name but a few. The main event, however, is the tiger. There are only 35 - 40 tigers in the park. Setting off at 2 o'clock and returning at sunset, 6 o'clock, we had a dusty, bumpy but really enjoyable afternoon. No tigers were spotted ... read more

22nd December ’11 Jaipur to Ranthambore Today we didn’t have to leave until 9 am! We travelled in a much smaller bus with no suspension. It took an hour to get out of Jaipur and then we headed off into the countryside and bumped, rattled and were shaken out of our seats for 3 hours until we reach Ranthambore. We stayed in the Hotel Raj Palace another nice small place. We literally had about 30 minutes to check in, find the room, ram some food in – another typical Indian lunch of rice, dal, curried veg and chapattis and then we were off on a tiger spotting safari! We travelled in army vehicles which have a special name I have forgotten but are basically large, high open topped jeeps. We headed off to the old Ranthambore ... read more

Namaskaar, apke se (good morning how are you) I'm only a few days in and no idea what day it is till I read the news about a certain Mr. Gadaffi- yeehah! Since last I blogged I have traveled with my own private driver (posh eh) from Delhi to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, absolutely amazing but completely over touristified if you know what I mean. He really loved his first wife and she him, 14 children! Mind you 22 years and 40,000 workers to complete, that puts the trams in the shade. Traveled to Ranthambhhore national park yesterday. 350km of extremely interesting roads, along the way we stop at an up-market restaurant and my driver cannot go in because of the caste system and although there is one wealthy Indian family inside it is ... read more

After partying it up in the booze free, drug free, meat free paradise that was Pushcar, we decided to head down to Jaipur to calm things down a touch. After a night of rooftop rummy and a few well earned Kingfishers (the bev of choice amongst most Indians), we went to Jaipur Fort, which looked like a smaller and far less impressive Great Wall of China. It was a bit of a walk to the top, so we decided to take the elephants - not the most comfortable mode of transport, but an experience all the same. There wasn't a great deal else to do in Jaipur, so after a night in our hotel room watching a ridiculously exciting game of cricket (England vs. India) and trying unsuccessfully to recreate it with a coke bottle, it ... read more