Blogs from Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India, Asia - page 7

Woke up very excited today because I was going tiger spotting. Booked the afternoon safari though as I fancied a lie in. So didn't emerge from my room until about 10:00 and went and ordered some pancakes and honey which I half expected the Indians to mess up but were actully very scrummy. (I ordered french fries once and they came out as blackened bits of uncooked potato.) 14:00 soon rolled around and my canter turned up to take me on safari. I met a friendly guy from belgium named marco on the safari and we swapped e-mails to meet up in Goa for christmas. (didn't get a photo of him though.) The Safari was cool. Lots of amazing scenery and different animals to spot. We saw not 1 but 2 tigers which I was well ... read more

Ranthambore National Park is located about 30 km outside of a small town called Sawai Madhopur. It covers 1334 sq km of open land, in which there are approximately 30 tigers who roam free alongside deer, monkeys, crocodiles, and over 300 species of birds. Also within the park are the 10th century Ranthambore Fort and several dilapidated mosques and temples. Tiger spotting is the thing to do in Ranthambore. The park is divided into 5 zones and each jeep uses a lottery system to decide which zone they will explore; there are also options as to how big a jeep you want and whether an early morning safari or afternoon safari is preferred. Our first safari was in the afternoon in a big jeep with about 20 other people. Needless to say, it wasn't a very ... read more

Our first outing with my parents was to Ranthambhore National Park....we were heading to Khem Villas and planned on enjoying both an early morning and an afternoon Safari. The day didn't really begin as planned.....see excerpts from my mom's journal entry: "Let me just say that we have had some experiences that I cannot do justice to in an e-mail. But, never-the-less I will give you a quick synopsis. The train to reach Ranthambor was really something. First of all....if anyone wants to REALLY see India , they should spend 3 hours at the Delhi train station! Our train was 3 hours late getting to us...no one knew why, and really, no mention was made of it so we sat and watched the events unfold. It was priceless. All the dirt and shit (and I mean ... read more

Ok hello again, sorry now in China so am going to do a very quick run down of the latest events to get to the present. So continuing from the last entry, we went to this beautiful white marble mosque- on retrospect the most superior of them all, it was stunning, we were abvle to sit and look at the colourfull stain glass windows inside the temple and absorb the atmosphere......... Next day we went to the city palace in Jaipur which was cool, they had this huge urn that was in the guiness book of records for being the largest silver craft peice- some years ago now though. There were displays of heavily embroidered robes etc of the royalty- so intricate and it took for some items months at a time to make say a ... read more

We had a very relaxing stay in Ranthambore National Park over the past few days, relaxing and going on safari. The drive from Jaipur was a little...hectic, but we made it ok. The place we were staying in had a pool, so that was the first stop. We relaxed for the rest of the day, mostly near the pool, and checked out a wedding that was going on near our hotel at night. It was right in the middle of the street, with a band and dancing. It was certainly an experiance. The next afternoon (after a fair amount of pool time) we got in a canter (an open air bus that seats 25) and headed into the park. We saw a tiger (albeit from a distance), monkeys, a few different types of deer, some ... read more