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Safari Round 3 - Chris and Charly 0 vs Tigers 3

Still not seen any tigers... Do they really exist ???

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chrischarly on January 5, 2011 from Umaria, India

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Safari Round 2 - Chris and Charly 0 vs Tigers 2

Now usually the blog is Charly's domain, but whilst she is busy reading I thought I'd have a go.............. It all started with a knock on our door at 05.30am. After a terrible nights sleep - due to insanely cold weather they are having here - we dragged ourselves out of bed, both...

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chrischarly on January 4, 2011 from Umaria, India

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No such luck in the search for a tiger today... better luck tommorrow we hope!... Saw plenty of deer, monkeys, tiger footprints and an owl though. Yet not as exciting...

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chrischarly on January 3, 2011 from Umaria, India

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We've made it to The National Park!

After waking up bright and early we caught a train from Katni to Umaria and shared a jeep with 2 friendly Canadians we met to Bandhavgarh National Park. We are staying in a lovely hotel and now ready for our first safari tomorrow afternoon; fingers crossed we see a tiger!

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chrischarly on January 2, 2011 from Umaria, India

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Another long train journey!

This morning we left Varanasi and the strong smells behind us and headed to Katni where we stayed over night before going to Bandhavgarh National Park tomorrow. Unsurpringly the train was late arriving by 4 hours which meant we arrived at 11:15pm! Not exactly ideal in a huge...

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chrischarly on January 1, 2011 from Katni, India

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New Years Eve in Varanasi...

This evening we went for a walk once again along the Ganges River but this time at night to watch a celebration happening on the Main Ghat. Although we are still unsure what it was for, it was pretty nice. Then, in the evening we celebrated the New Year with...

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chrischarly on December 31, 2010 from Varanasi, India

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Exploring the Ganges

Today we had a great day exploring Varanasi walking Miles and Miles along the Ganges River taking a look at all the Ghats. We saw many burning bodies that we couldn’t take any photos of; out of respect for the families which we understood....

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chrischarly on December 30, 2010 from Varanasi, India

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Finally in Varanasi

The train journey was nowhere near as comfortable as the previous one as we were in ‘Sleeper Class’ which is lower than third class! It was freezing cold and no one would give us any blankets to use so we used our thin travel towels and shivered to sleep. But...

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chrischarly on December 29, 2010 from Lucknow, India

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We finally made it to the Taj!

After finally working our way out of Jaipur we headed to the bus station to travel to Delhi via bus, then Delhi to Agra on the train. The bus journey was really horrible though and as well as being really late, it was a long lasting 7 hours on a small reclining seat with no leg room....

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chrischarly on December 28, 2010 from Agra, India

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Stupid, stupid protesters!

Wow... What a difficult and stressful day! After waking up at 4:30am to find our taxi-driver already waiting for us to go to the train station we were in a mad rush to get ready as quick as possible... We then arrived at the station in plenty of time for our train. We were pretty...

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chrischarly on December 27, 2010 from Delhi, India

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