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Friday Dec 30, 2005
A Wild Chrismas with a little one!!
A Wild Chrismas with a little one!!
On a clear, sunny chrismas day in Bangalore we set out to visit Bannerghatta Park, located at 25 Km from the city to show some animals to our 14 month old son Rishabh who otherwise has seen them only in pictures. I think this park is worth a visit for (Wild) Animal lovers visiting Bangalore.
Bannerghatta Park offers an exclusive Safari ride which is a unique experience that this park offers to the visitors and that's the main reason for people to go there. It being a Sunday, the park was crowded like any other place in Bangalore. We took a ticket for the Grand Safari but the line to get into the safari was so huge that we decided to move on seeing the zoo first. ZOO: We saw colorful sparrows, two cobras twisted within each other, black bears which were moving their necks in rotation as if they were asked to do it repeatedly. We were hoping that Rishabh would be thrilled watching all these animals. But not all the times-- he was busy with something totally different at times- like playing with the net kept for the birds or climbing the steps if he happen to come across any. The Cheetas were sleeping but one of them was agile and was looking around. We tried hard for Rishabh to look at the Cheeta but he was excited at a crow sitting next to it and ignored our pleas to look at the Cheeta. He gets to see the crows everyday in our backyard!! The yellow haired monkeys that I had seen 8 years ago are were quite amusing but now they have grown old with their hair shed off. By then it was time to take the safari as it closes at 4:30pm. SAFARI: Our friends Durgam and Shachi had already got into the safari line and we got our turn after waiting in the line for nearly 40 minutes. But the safari ride paid for it. In the first part of the safari, dears, bears, sambars were spotted. But then came our wild friends tigers, cheetas and lions. The lions and cheetas are caged. But not all the tigers are caged. It was a thrilling experience to see the tigers gracefully walking on the pathways, on the sides of the safari van just as if they are walking on the roads with the traffic around. I had not seen tigers in such a close vincinity until then. Some of them were really big ones, and thier bodies waved as they walked. There is only one white tiger in the park and that is left free as well. I believe in all we saw about 10-12 tigers that were freely moving about. The park is worth a visit just for this unique experience. The park has caged gates as you enter in which gives a feeling of being in the Jurassic Park! Our dear Rishabh for whose sake we went to the park promptly slept off when the safari van took off and woke up as we were getting down the van :) But anyway thanks to him for making us visit the park on a bright chrismas day. Posted at 12:29AM Dec 30, 2005 by jaya_hangal in General | Comments:
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