Ranthambore National Park,
India
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
So off we head, on a bit of an expensive detour to Ranthambore National Park, allday traveling there, just for some tiger spotting, kate is all excited. unfortunatly the day it self was not covered in glory. firstly we found out the tour, guide,entry,jeep (1) was 2500 rupees. we thought it worth the extra. you can't pre-book,unless you go through your hotel, who will charge you anything between an extra 1000 and 2000 (700 rupees is a tener). so we thought, get up early (4 am), go down to the office and que, and get a jeep.unfortunatly the hotels pay people to wait in line all night long (12), which is the exact number of jeeps allowed into the park everyday. brillent system, i wish the bloke at the office (goverment), had just told us we had to go through an agent the day before, instead of telling us to go there first thing in the morning. anyway, managed to get on a canter (topless coach), and set of on our journey, a little weary.and still paying some bloke a handling charge. the park was amazing at dawn, with wild life, encountering a croc fairly early on, and saw some fresh tiger prints on severel occasions, but we had no luck. its wildlife, and not a rock band, so really we had no right to complain, but i think we were all a smidgen dissapointed, but me and kate will definitly go to some other parks along the way.
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