Tadoba - Tiger Tiger ...
The allure of watching a tiger in the wild is exciting to say the least. Somewhere in Jan 2022, we saw an opportunity to visit Tadoba in April 2022. This was an all office gang and the idea was mooted by some of our colleagues from the testing team - Nitin Tambe and Rati. Soon the team started forming and we were now fully committed to the trip. https://www.facebook.com/JungleRoutesSafaris was our partner in crime.. Shiwani and Maithilee did all the grunt work of organizing the safari, booking us in hotels, getting the Core vs Buffer equation right (That's super critical to sight tigers) .. as you will see in later secions.
We began our journey by flight from Mumbai to Nagpur .. landing at Nagpur airport on the 14th Night 10.00 pm. A fantastic arrangement of dal Khichdi before we hit the bed... the heat was already quite intolerable in Nagpur and we were shuddering to think of Chandrapur. Morning we had a sumptuous breakfast at Brindavan in Nagpur with our colleagues who joines us by Train and off we went to the wilderness. There was a huge sense of excitement in seeing a Tiger in the wild.. the only equivalent i had was either the opium dosed tigers in Thailand, the ones in Jijamataa Udyan (captivity) or the Lions of Africa ... there are no Tigers in Africa.
We reached our destination in very comfortable Innovas with Captain seats and enjoyed an awesome lunch in Tiger's Heaven resort. .. again everything was impeccably arranged by https://www.facebook.com/JungleRoutesSafaris
The Itinerary was as follows:
Day1 - 15th (Friday) - 2.00 pm departure for Buffer Zone (Buffer has more vegetation and is recommended for afternoons to avoid the heat),
Day 2 - 16th (Saturday) - 5.45 am - departure for Core
Day 2 - 16th (Saturday) - 2.00 pm - Depareture for Buffer
Day 3 - 17th (Sunday) - 5.45 am - Departure for Core
Intelligent arrangement of Core vs Buffer plus booking for 14 people in groups which just matched the itinerary and the overall comfort in the trip was the key highlight. Not to mention a Tiger Sighting every single Game drive.
We saw Maya, chota Matka, Mowgli.. and a whole jungle full of other animals.
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