6th October 2018
Not having dinner last night certainly paid off as when 6.30am rolled around we were feeling fine and ready to face the day. We rented two bikes from the hotel and cycled the 200m to the Keoladeo National Park. After paying the entrance fee of around £5 per person, we set off, with our eyes peeled and my camera ready. Unfortunately the camera repair shop didn’t actually repair my camera so there was a lot of stopping and starting and trying to manually focus, which is super annoying. One of the first things we saw was a Python! One of the park rangers was releasing it back in to the undergrowth and was very eager for us to get up close and personal. I tried to get a few shots but they mostly ended up being blurry! But still, we saw a pretty huge snake, in the wild – Rory was both terrified and excited, bless him.
The 29sq kilometres park is a world heritage site and while the birds have only just started migrating back for the winter months, there were still plenty to see, namely the impressive and somewhat imposing Storks. The park is recognised as one of the world’s most important breeding and feeding grounds with birds coming from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China and Siberia.
We really enjoying cycling when we’re on holiday and today was no different. For about four hours we followed the main paths and ventured off on our own in search of wildlife. We spotted 10 huge monitor lizards (when I say we, I mean I, because Rory was too busy wrestling with his bike and making extreme amounts of noise to spot them before they ran in to the undergrowth). We saw plenty of birds and insects, most of which I didn’t manage to get any pictures of but our most impressive site was probably the bats!
Whole trees were full of huge bats! They are so different to the tiny bats we see in the UK and it was surreal to see them flying in the day. Again it was difficult to get any decent pictures but standing around five metres from them, watching them sleep and stretch and hang around upside down was just amazing! When our bums were sore from all the cycling we headed back to the hotel to get showered and ready for our next adventure – the train to Ranthambhore National Park!
The train was much busier than our train to Agra but the seats were allocated so we spent the next three hours reading our books and not awkwardly staring at the middle aged Indian couple sitting opposite us who took more selfies than your average thirteen year old girl. The train was almost on time and once we arrived we took a tuk tuk to Mount Valley Resort where we will be staying for the next three nights. After a quick vegetarian dinner (because we still don’t trust meat) we went to bed to get some shut eye in anticipation for our early morning tiger safari!
Not having dinner last night certainly paid off as when 6.30am rolled around we were feeling fine and ready to face the day. We rented two bikes from the hotel and cycled the 200m to the Keoladeo National Park. After paying the entrance fee of around £5 per person, we set off, with our eyes peeled and my camera ready. Unfortunately the camera repair shop didn’t actually repair my camera so there was a lot of stopping and starting and trying to manually focus, which is super annoying. One of the first things we saw was a Python! One of the park rangers was releasing it back in to the undergrowth and was very eager for us to get up close and personal. I tried to get a few shots but they mostly ended up being blurry! But still, we saw a pretty huge snake, in the wild – Rory was both terrified and excited, bless him.
The 29sq kilometres park is a world heritage site and while the birds have only just started migrating back for the winter months, there were still plenty to see, namely the impressive and somewhat imposing Storks. The park is recognised as one of the world’s most important breeding and feeding grounds with birds coming from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China and Siberia.
We really enjoying cycling when we’re on holiday and today was no different. For about four hours we followed the main paths and ventured off on our own in search of wildlife. We spotted 10 huge monitor lizards (when I say we, I mean I, because Rory was too busy wrestling with his bike and making extreme amounts of noise to spot them before they ran in to the undergrowth). We saw plenty of birds and insects, most of which I didn’t manage to get any pictures of but our most impressive site was probably the bats!
Whole trees were full of huge bats! They are so different to the tiny bats we see in the UK and it was surreal to see them flying in the day. Again it was difficult to get any decent pictures but standing around five metres from them, watching them sleep and stretch and hang around upside down was just amazing! When our bums were sore from all the cycling we headed back to the hotel to get showered and ready for our next adventure – the train to Ranthambhore National Park!
The train was much busier than our train to Agra but the seats were allocated so we spent the next three hours reading our books and not awkwardly staring at the middle aged Indian couple sitting opposite us who took more selfies than your average thirteen year old girl. The train was almost on time and once we arrived we took a tuk tuk to Mount Valley Resort where we will be staying for the next three nights. After a quick vegetarian dinner (because we still don’t trust meat) we went to bed to get some shut eye in anticipation for our early morning tiger safari!
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