Ranthambur - India
3/14/05
On that morning we left really early since the safari place is around 6 hours away from Jaipur and it was scheduled at 2 pm. When we left it was really interesting because the people were waking up in the street, we saw the morning scenes of the streets and in the villages of India.
People were leaving their bed, often the sidewalk, getting water on a public well and washing in underwear and brushing around it. Once that task accomplished it looks like the woman have to go to get more water for the rest of the day.
Indeed we saw plenty of woman carrying huge jars of water on the top of their head. A little bit later we saw the kids in uniform heading to school.
The area that we were crossing was getting more and more rural.
In that region each house had a stack of cow shit next to it, and the funny thing is that each village seems to have its own way of piling it up. Some had the shape of cubes, others of walls, towers and of houses. In some places there was also huge fields of cow shit being dried by the sun. Once dry it is used to make fires to cook. As we drove the landscape was getting drier and drier making it really hard to the locals to plant anything. So the living condition of the people was getting worse and worse, and the road too.
We finally arrived to the hotel in Sawai Madhopur around 12:30 where we had a typical Indian meal: rice, lentil and mixed curry vegetable. It was really good. At 2 pm we left for the safari in the National Park of Ranthambur. We first crossed a very dry forest full of deers, antelopes. Then we got to a greener region where we saw lots of different kinds of birds in the threes and monkeys jumping around. We stopped in a facility point for a break when one of the forest guards arrived in a jeep in high speed announcing that further ahead there was a tiger. We all rushed to the site hoping to see it. Three other jeeps where there all staring at the forest where the tiger was lying on a rock. Very very hard to spot it and impossible to photograph without telezoom lenses, so no tiger picture for you guys. According to our guide we were lucky to have seen one in our first safari. The last time he had spotted one was 4 days before. We then headed to a lake/swamp where many animals where in, bathing, drinking and eating the seaweeds. The big birds where trying to catch little frogs around, and there were thousands of frogs making that place a real banquet. Back to the hotel we had an interesting talk with the two owners, about different National Parks and the tourism business in India.
The next day we left early again to go to Agra.
On that morning we left really early since the safari place is around 6 hours away from Jaipur and it was scheduled at 2 pm. When we left it was really interesting because the people were waking up in the street, we saw the morning scenes of the streets and in the villages of India.
People were leaving their bed, often the sidewalk, getting water on a public well and washing in underwear and brushing around it. Once that task accomplished it looks like the woman have to go to get more water for the rest of the day.
Indeed we saw plenty of woman carrying huge jars of water on the top of their head. A little bit later we saw the kids in uniform heading to school.
The area that we were crossing was getting more and more rural.
In that region each house had a stack of cow shit next to it, and the funny thing is that each village seems to have its own way of piling it up. Some had the shape of cubes, others of walls, towers and of houses. In some places there was also huge fields of cow shit being dried by the sun. Once dry it is used to make fires to cook. As we drove the landscape was getting drier and drier making it really hard to the locals to plant anything. So the living condition of the people was getting worse and worse, and the road too.
We finally arrived to the hotel in Sawai Madhopur around 12:30 where we had a typical Indian meal: rice, lentil and mixed curry vegetable. It was really good. At 2 pm we left for the safari in the National Park of Ranthambur. We first crossed a very dry forest full of deers, antelopes. Then we got to a greener region where we saw lots of different kinds of birds in the threes and monkeys jumping around. We stopped in a facility point for a break when one of the forest guards arrived in a jeep in high speed announcing that further ahead there was a tiger. We all rushed to the site hoping to see it. Three other jeeps where there all staring at the forest where the tiger was lying on a rock. Very very hard to spot it and impossible to photograph without telezoom lenses, so no tiger picture for you guys. According to our guide we were lucky to have seen one in our first safari. The last time he had spotted one was 4 days before. We then headed to a lake/swamp where many animals where in, bathing, drinking and eating the seaweeds. The big birds where trying to catch little frogs around, and there were thousands of frogs making that place a real banquet. Back to the hotel we had an interesting talk with the two owners, about different National Parks and the tourism business in India.
The next day we left early again to go to Agra.
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