From the amazing Varanasi we made our way west to the Madhya Pradesh region. After a 12 hour train journey we arrived at our destination - a small rural station in the middle of nowhere. As our train had been delayed three hours it was 1.30am and there were no rickshaws, so we bunkered up and slept on the floor of a waiting room until 4.30am when we could get a taxi to take us to Tala, an even smaller town, which is surrounded by Bandhavgarh National Tiger Park - our final destination. After breakfast, a nap, lunch and then another nap, it was afternoon and time for our tiger safari! Motoring along the dirt tracks we saw multiple types of deer (tiger food), monkeys, wild boar, vultures, eagles and one tiger, however, he was about
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