The Majestic Tiger

A visit to Kabini Jungle lodges and resorts was much awaited trip. The safari at Nagarhole National Park turned to be the best safari which i did till now. It will be definitely the most memorable one for sure. It was 8th April 2017 and the summer is at its peak when myself, Nisha and Surya checked-in. We started very early from Bangalore and reached resort by 10:30am. We had good lunch and took a short nap before we got the call for safari.

We are out to safari by 3:45pm. It was an open van which accommodates about 10 people and a guide and the driver. As there were few families and couple of kids in the wan we gossiped that these​ special van would have special route where the animals won't be seen. We turned out to be completely wrong.

As we entered the forest territory we were fortunate to sight a Tusker Elephant. It was quite close that I could not capture the full elephant with my 300mm lens. Then we spotted few deers and peacocks. It's always great to see these animals free in their own natural habitat.

Indian Roller - State bird of karnataka

The blue wings are really a beauty to watch. 

Emerald Green Pigeon

Sighted a pair of emerald green pigeon and another peacock when our safari guide spotted the Majestic beast.

Our guide cum driver sighted it very early and he started telling

"Sir Tiger, sir tiger"

This the one of the first sight...

Since I was sitting at the front seat, I started searching for it first. It took few minutes for me to sight the beautiful beast. More than the actual sight of the tiger, it was the realization that we are infact sighting a tiger took a while to sink!!!! After entertaining us for about 5 minutes this shy cat decided to walk into the bushes.

 

We will never forget these 5 minutes where we had spotted a tiger in the wild for the first time. 

After the sighting of the tiger we drove again slowly, sighted peacock, langur , couple of serpant eagles, an elephant and many many spotted deers.

Peacock

Gray Langur

 The news of tiger sighting had been passed to other safari drivers and rightly so everyone wanted to reach that place to try the luck.

At the same time we got news of a python sighting, but after reaching to that spot we were unlucky.

We almost reached the end of our safari where we saw about 3 safari jeeps parked on the way. While approaching we were really surprise to spot another majestic tiger. This one looked bit more smaller than the earlier one. It also turned out to be not shy at all.

 

 

This gave us many many good poses to click the shots and finally after about 15 minutes of good good sighting we finally decided to leave the beast in its own world and we headed back to the resort ......................felling blessed 😀