India 2024

Ranthambore

Friday 15th March 2024

Ranthambore National Park is a wildlife haven, and we headed out in 2 jungle jeeps in search of everything we could find.

Although we took in the sounds and smells of the jungle, we never spotted the shy and elusive Bengal tiger, probably our biggest attraction.

We definitely saw striped hyenas, a lot of sambar deer, very many monkeys of slightly different sub-species, a few snub-nosed marsh crocodiles, wild boar, sloth bears and a lot of creatures which we were not able to accurately identify, including many birds, but we did identify owls sleeping in tree holes.

Other species known to live in the Park included tigers and leopards (which we definitely never saw), plus quite a few creatures which we might well have seen but were unable to identify accurately, or which were identified to us by Anil, but the names of which were unfortunately not remembered. These might have included chital, nilgai, common or hanuman langurs, macaques, jackals, jungle cats, caracals, sloth bears, black bucks, rufoustailed hares, chinkara, common palm civets, toddy cats, common yellow bats, desert cats, desert monitor lizards, tortoises, banded kraits, cobras, common kraits, ganga soft shelled turtles, Indian pythons, North Indian flap shelled turtles, rattle snakes, and Russell’s vipers, all of which are known to exist in the park.

We stopped for a second night at the Tiger Den Resort in Ranthambore.

Jungle Tansport

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