Tiger Safari Basics

The majestic tiger is the World’s most enchanting and magnificent animal. To see tiger is a dream for many and the best places to see tiger are in Central Indian tiger reserves of Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench. These National parks have the highest density of tiger population among Indian preserves, hence a wildlife lover and conservationist will stand the maximum chance of sighting the rare, elusive tiger in India.

The best option for a wild tiger safari is to book your tiger tour through and eco travel agency that offers package tours in which you travel in groups to your destinations for watching Indian birds and amazing wildlife. The package tours are usually of about two weeks and itinerary includes historical places like the Taj Mahal at Agra and the Red Fort, Kutub Minar to name a few. It could also include a visit to Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh. India is vast so you could be traveling North, South or East and West depending upon the destinations you plan to visit but for tiger sighting MP offers the best chance.

Once you have booked your tour for an independent travel or in a package tour. You need to prepare in advance before you arrive in India.

Learn about the weather and climate beforehand so you can fetch clothes accordingly. Buy a book on Indian wildlife/birds and read well to understand Indian animals and birds. Hire naturalist guide which any way the Indian tour operators provide often. By knowing beforehand about the wildlife and birds you are going to enjoy the tiger reserves better and will get a holistic view of Indian environment.

Keep at hand a good camera, photography accessories; binocular and useful books on Indian birds and Bengal tiger. Most of the wildlife sanctuaries are in deep interiors and you may not get a medicine or a beverage of your choice so keep them in your bag and of course cash at hand.

Tiger Tour Guide

I have added important resources for tiger tour which I am sure those interested in wild jungle safari in India will find useful. The links are about project tiger and major Indian National Parks and Tiger reserves.

The links also give a brief on Indian wildlife for naturalist guides, nature lovers and conservationists. My effort is to provide all tiger tour details at one spot for eco tourist traveling in India to see tiger and Indian wild life.

I would welcome suggestion from the reader on how to improve this blog by adding important travel info to make a travelers trip a success.

Wild Safari

Do you wish to experience tiger adventures or read about then in an online wildlife magazine.

The thrill of tiger sighting is well known but then have you encountered a tiger on kill.

Have you seen a tiger mock charge and roar while posturing an aggressive stance.

Or a tiger ambushing a bison which can be a 1000 kilograms in weight. At least four times its weight.

Have you seen tigers mating or a scuffle between two full grown male tigers over a female in heat.

Have you seen a tiger chasing a leopard - its arch rival. Or pummeling an irritating wild dog to death.

Have you seen a tiger cub or cubs. There cannot be a more beautiful moment in your life than when sighting tiger cubs. They are an epitome of beauty, innocence and impish delight that delights us so much when exhibited by our own young ones.

Have you seen a crested hawk eagle pouncing on a full grown peacock. The raptor strikes with amazing speed and ferocity and the prey is lifeless in minutes.

Have you heard the alarm calls of spotted deer and the sambar.

Have you heard the loud bugle like mating calls of the swamp deer. Have you visited the tiger land or seen a tiger at all, if not then go for a tiger safari now.
Visit Pench, Kanha or Bandhavgarh now for more information contact me. Uday Patel

Tiger Sighting

The most thrilling moment in one's life is sighting the rare and elusive tiger and that is what a tiger tour offers to a tourist. Most of the tiger sighting in Indian tiger reserves is on elephant back but for the lucky ones they can come across a tiger on the jungle trek. This happens less but when you experience such an adventure it is simply breathtaking. The moment is filled with spine tingling fear and excitement though the fear is unfounded as the tiger is a thorough gentlemen. Harmless if undisturbed. It follows the law of the jungle to tee.

The King of the forest has been so ignominiously treated by the humans that he is on the brink of extinction। For a tiger lover or an eco tourist, those who venture into the wild seeing a tiger is not enough, he should strive to save the tiger any which way he can।

The tiger is just not for tourism he is an important aspect of the environment being on the top of the food chain and an indicator species that tells the state of the forest. These forests are important for man as the source of precious water and food. This fact very few people understand specially urban dewellers.

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Online tiger tour booking in India

In excitement of sighting a tiger in the wild one forgets to checklist places to see the Indian tiger in the wild. The best places to see the tiger in the wild are Indian tiger reserves like Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench all are in Central India in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

These are the best places in India for tiger sighting due to very high density of tiger population. These places have the best set up for a tiger safari and have three star tiger resorts, camps and hotel for boarding and lodging in comfort.

There are many tiger tour operators that offer packages to tiger destinations. These journeys make it possible to see the tiger in its natural habitat. These travel agents offer different packages according to ones budget. The wild life camps and luxurious resorts are best suited for a stay in these jungles.

Tiger encounter of animal kind - Bengal tiger safari

It was in August end few years back when I was traversing through a forest patch in Central India. The patch was dense like what we see in jungle safari at Kanha tiger reserve or at Bandhavgarh. But being well aware of the status of the tiger I was sure there were none here. Any way it is a big order to expect to see tigers outide the national parks in India. As naturalist my curiosity is always turned on to expect the unexpected. I had seen a herd of deer and langur monkeys on my earlier visit to this part of the jungle and had heard of a leopard making its home here. But to see a tiger here...well!

I had conducted many tiger tours and toured all tiger reserves with the tourists but I had never seen a Bengal tiger outside the Indian reserves. Hence, when I was negotiating a bend of a steep climb I saw an animal moving up the slope adjacent to the road and one slip down to the other side of the road. In that spec of a moment I could not make out which animal it was. So I was expecting a spotted deer at the most since they are the most common animals in Indian wildlife and can be seen anywhere in Indian jungles in safari.

And my! When I reached the spot and directed the head lights towards the slope. "I froze". Yes it was a beautiful wild tiger standing right in front of me. And what the animal I had seen slipping down to the right of where my jeep was quite likely tigress. I could not believe the sight...It was a tiger for real. The animal looked at me with caution for some moments and then majestically climbed up the slope and vanished. I sat watching the tiger as it moved away from me nonchalantly. What a tiger adventures this I thought.

By now my excitement at this wonderful rare tiger sighting had reached it height and I sat stunned for some time. The quietly I drove away knowing well that my memory will be enriched for life at this memorable tiger sight.

Leopard Surprise - Tiger Safari Bandhavgarh

People chase tigers and they often get to see them with some luck. But you can't chase a Leopard and hope to see it. To see the elusive cat you have to be extremely LUCKY!!!. In spite of being so much in the Jungles of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, my first sighting of the Leopard was quite late.

It was somewhere ten years back one fine summer I along with my friend had just arrived at the Bandhavgarh National Park. This was my friend's first visit ever to an Indian forest. As luck would have it that evening on reaching Bandhavgarh we were ambling down the path that led to our rooms beside the Charanganga river at White Tiger Lodge when someone from among the visitors standing by the lawn shouted Leopard!. I ignored the call thinking that it was some "expert" who had mistaken a Jungle Cat for a Leopard. But moments later it, dawned upon me that it was the resort's manager's voice, a call I could definitely not, ignore.

We left our baggage in front of the door and joined the excited group which was frantically throwing light on the river bed from their torches. But the animal had by this time literary buried itself on the river bed. I asked the group to cut off the light and maintain a pin-drop silence for a minute to which they complied eagerly. In that thrilling moment, we held unto our nerves tight and waited with bated breath hoping to calm the alarmed Leopard.

Soon I signaled the torches on and... Wow! there was a full-grown Leopard right in front of us. But the crowd could not hold on much longer and began to chatter excitedly. The Leopard, at first tried to climb up the nearest tree but came down from half the way and ambled quite leisurely in full view in the broad torchlight, it soon crossed over the jungle and vanished.

I was as excited as my friend and others were. Our first sighting of the elusive cat that too on our arrival..and from the resort itself. What more could one want, thousand would arrive at the resort unpack and venture into the forest day in and day out, but few will see the elusive cat, very few in fact.

The forest life is very secretive in the Indian Jungles hence the excitement and thrill experienced on a chance encounter on tiger safari are indescribable.

An Exciting Leopard Find