A good camera, light luggage, an exploring mind and a daring soul: That’s all you need to enjoy a place like Ranthambore to its fullest. It’s one of the largest national parks in India and is located in Rajasthan. This is a must visit place if you want to see the wildlife animals in their natural habitat in India. Although famous for tigers, you can find leopards, nilgai, wild boar, bar, hyena, sloth bear and chital too. I decided to visit Ranthambore last weekend and my trip has been nothing short of a delightful experience.

Animal census

Being a wildlife enthusiast, I always wanted to participate in the annual animal census organized at Ranthambore. The trip started with the basic safari trip that is a must for every tourist here. It’s really important to take a safari to explore beauty of the animals and not to forget nature.

Now, for the animal census, the officials made us machans to keep a vigilant eye. It is a government program and every one of us was were assigned to one official. There was no lack of caution and seriousness in this program. All of us had an awesome time at the census and we witnessed a great deal of wildlife from the machans. The most exciting part was watching the sloth bears. It is a rare animal now.

Fort

Ranthambore fort is one of a kind with its exceptional beauty. The Ranthambore fort is as magnificent as the forts found in Rajasthan. It stood tall with history weaved all over its walls. The dense forest was beautiful. If not for safari, one should pay a visit for the forest. Full of deciduous trees, it’s a grassy paddock.

Birds and Lake

The next best thing were the birds. I saw more than twenty varieties of birds and fell in love with nature once again. Drongo, Woodpecker, Parakeet, Flycatcher, Babbler are just to name a few from my favourites. Oh, their amazing colors!

Padam Talao is another beauty that can mesmerize you. The giant red stone and the banyan tree that is regarded as the second largest one is sure to attract people with its uniqueness.

Tigers

The Tigers here are named with T-number and after some time, we also could identify some of them. Of course, we had help, but it was really nice to feel close with these wild creates and with nature. Starting with 26 tigers, the count has now gone up considerably. It has made its mark in the international map as well.

Insight

The amazing thing about Ranthambore is that you get to learn a lot of things. It unites wildlife, history and nature in the most beautiful manner possible. Moreover, the wildlife enthusiast in me had a great time observing and noticing significant details.

Ranthambore was a more of a knowledge enhancing and learning experience that I could have imagined. Life’s a mystery and it keeps getting beautiful day by day. That’s the lesson I would take away from here.