Trailing Tiger

Trailing Tiger   So there are destinations and destinations, each offering their distinct USPs. Hot attractions that draw tourists seeking an? experience? to take home? a trophy in support of a battery of ya travel. But in this craze for acquiring the best seller, often overlooked details of our jetsetter? colors that give a place meaning and significance. After all ISN? Not the great thing about travel, savoring the joy of an authentic experience in its entirety? as a slice of succulent fruits, stones, bark and all? Tiger is without doubt India? The most charismatic and exports twenty-odd tiger reserves dotting the country cope with a constant of tourists that descend file with the single-minded determination to find the big cats? an encounter resourcefully? organized? guides and rangers with persistence to match. Make no mistake. Fauna of a monster - and the species - a tiger in point is the culmination of the safari, the delicious icing on the cake. Often, however, the obsession tiger chaser, fanatically pursuing his quarry, remains blind obdurately to countless other wonders that make up the typical experience of the jungle in India, an exercise that sank its teeth during our first trip to Tiger reserves in Kanh Madhya Pradesh. Kanh is beautiful, a glimpse of its ancient forest giving way to open new fields and erupting often in sal or bamboo, sufficient to counter any residual hangover from the dangers of the Indian state of transport, travel. And the queue to enter the safari, the jeeps seem merged pending deleted. Kanh was often described as the best place in the world to see a tiger, unfortunately, during our visit was not a pugmark apology, let alone a whisker. And we are not alone. ? See? ? No, you? None? was the common refrain between jeeps. ? It seems one of those days when for some inexplicable reason Tiger does not testify in any event the park? consoled the guide. It 'true. During the three days there was a single self-respecting tiger has chosen to reveal himself, even as regards the range Mukka throughout the park. Then missed a trip? Of course, if the discount samba, herds of gaura, and hundreds of chital and langurs and peacock. Any rare sightings? No, unless you include the barasinghas (Kanh is the only place in the world where you can find the hard ground variety of this type). At first we were impressed by our guide, besides the top cat, who were also interested in other small creatures that make up the food chain. Fortunately, took to heart our request so that we are largely rewarded: a black necked stork Wading in a stream, a collar scops owl simulating a dry tree stump, a crested serpent eagle survey of the land, not all has lost his eye trained. Suddenly you move the driver to stop and point. Only after following his frantic gestures and whispers urgently to see him. A barking deer, barely disceable patte, crouching in a bush. A monitor lizard clumsily scampering over a rocky hill. Or a woodpecker excavating its dispensation. Today, many wild excursions later, nostalgia Relive the golden memories of that first trip. As the flock of gaura, calves and all, which grazed on unconceedly letting us approach close. The glory of the night light on their shoulders as ambled away followed by a herd of cattle egrets. The unexpected sighting of a lone old bull foraging down at Waterhole, magnificent, even in the past of his capital. On our last night in a stream Kanh waiting, praying for the tiger was suspected our guide in everything, to appear. After a certain point it is not simply and delivered to the electrifying atmosphere, jungle silence broken only by the repeated requests of the jungle birds, as darkness fell quickly, and our driver was quick to retu the first camera. The next moing there was an unexpected Kanh drizzle of rain. The temperature fell sharply and a mysterious silence reigned in the jungle. Few animals on this safari and saw another side of the forest with the ban almost mysterious. Later in the door we have the question again? All the tigers? No, tough luck, "I said to him? But what the hell? For those interested, in principle covers destinations in India, including wildlife. Roozbeh Gazda