Sunday Morning Safari in Satpura
Once again we left the lodge in the dark and headed for the river and the entrance to the National Park. We negotiated the floating bridge…
Satpura’s Western Buffer Zone
This morning the four jeeps, their passengers, guides and naturalists that made up the Bear group were on safari in Satpura’s Western Buffer Zone. After…
Safari to Churna camp
After our early morning wake up call at 5.00 a.m we set of by torchlight to the meeting point. Here we climbed aboard the lodge’s jeeps…
Reni Pani Jungle Lodge
After breakfast we left our hotel for our three to four hour journey to Satpura National Park and the Reni Pani Jungle Lodge. Today, 21st March is…
Heathrow to India’s Satpura National Park
This spring we joined Naturetrek’s Wildlife Festival in India’s Satpura National Park. The group was to be based at the luxurious Reni Pani Jungle Lodge in the parks…
Keoladeo National Park
Having spent the last ten days in fairly remote locations, Bharatpur also know as Keoladeo National Park wasn’t quite what we were expecting. We knew that the…
River Chambal National Park
The overnight train journey passed without incident and we arrived in Agra. We spent a day with the crowds visiting the Taj Mahal and the…
Bandhavgarh and The Buffer Zone
f I have one criticism of our time in Bandhavgarh, it is that often the search for Tigers was almost exclusive. This on some occasions…
Day four. – Drive number 6 “Tigers, – no pressure”
We’d visited some of the tiger reserves in India before, but in March / April. In October it is very different. Most noticeable its much…
In search of a Tiger
The next two days seemed to fall into a familiar pattern of an early morning call at 4.45am, followed by coffee and biscuits. Then we…