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Nathan&EllieIndia Adventure BlissMeeting the Locals in Ramnagar
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Got up at 4:30am today to be the first ones out of the compound at 6:30. With high hopes of spotting Tigers. After 6 hours of intense searching we were forced to give up as we exited the Tiger Reserve. Despite not seeing any Tigers, we had an amazing time. Our driver Patwall was great and did everything her could to help us track down tigers. Going well beyond the call of duty and organising out paperwork, and driving where he wasn’t really supposed to. We searched a lot of tracks and even ones that no other drivers go down, I think it might even have been off limits. While about 2km down the track the car broke down. A problem with the fuel line, but for a while there we were pushing a car in a remote corner of a tiger and leopard occupied forest, where officially we were supposed to remain in the jeep at all times. Patwall eventually realised that the fuel line had got some air bubbles in it and needed priming, which he did by sucking the fuel through the line with his mouth!

Had a great time standing up in the geep, riding along looking in the forest for animal. Had an interesting thought; that hunters turned conservationists, then preceded to hunt the poachers, interesting …

At the moment we are sitting on our bags waiting at the train station for our train back to Delhi where we will get a connection to Agra. Agra is apparently the worst city in India, with lots of hustling and con artists, but it is home to the magnificent Tajh Mahal, a structure made from entirely from white marble. Looking forward to some sun set/rise photography. Also took some 350 photos in the Tiger reserve… looking forward to sorting them out and getting them online for your viewing pleasure.

Tonight we met a nice guy named Iqbal. Very charismatic guy running the “high speed internet café” that has no power for most of the day (shops start up generators if that have/need them). The hight speed link was actually a GPRS mobile phone link that was v.v.slow. But despite that we talked for ages about the arts & crafts import/export business he is thinking of starting. Unfortunately he didn’t seem to understand that as an import/export agent the most valuable thing he has is his contacts and ensuring he position in the supply chain. He had actually given his contacts onto some Australian entrepreneurs. Seems that uneducated people can be very easily, even unknowingly be hood winked out of what could be theirs.

Think we will start doing vodcasts of our travel adventures soon too, just have to work out a good way to share them.

I’m off to stare into the bright fluro lights and let my thoughts drift,

Love Nathan


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Written by seroka  51 months ago


I was talking to a client whose job is study of conservation of animals in asia. Her husband works Cambridge uni. and studies biology.Spend a couple of month here and rest travelling world THey would be interesting couple for you and Elllie to meet. She said their is quite a story behind the few tigers left in India and that there are about 5 reserves (all too small for the tigers to survive) Maybe that is why there are very few left.

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