The Road to Mussoorie

After taking the overnight train from Jaisalmer to Delhi, we decided that we would take the long way back to Mussoorie. We got in a taxi at Old Delhi Railway station and took it right to Corbett National Park. It was a long ride, and we woke up early the next morning to take a safari through the park. The big draw of Corbett is India's national animal--the tiger. We were told that not very many visitors to the park actually see these big cats and we have some friends who've been a couple of times without a glimpse. We thought we'd try our luck anyway.

Our guides were able to show us some of the tell-tale signs of the tiger. If you look at the tree below, you may see the marks that one of them made to sharpen his razor sharp claws.

We even brought our binoculars to help us catch a view of the tiger if he made an appearance.

If you look closely at this picture below, you can see a paw print of one of the tigers in the park. We saw a few as we were driving around, but our guide assured us that this one was pretty fresh.

All of our searching did pay off. We didn't actually get a chance to snap a picture of the tiger that we saw and we're a thankful that we weren't as close to the cat as this picture implies, but we thought that it would be best to actually show an image of one in this blog post.

After our successful jeep safari, we went on a more laid back elephant safari. We saw a couple monkeys and lots of birds and butterflies, but it was nice just to have a slow, lumbering ride without the pressure of straining our eyes to see a flash of orange.

Dave and Beth