Bannerughatta National Park, Bangalore

My trip this Sunday, February 14^th 2010, to Bannerghatta National Park, India wasn't really a planned one. 12th (February 2010) to 14th Prakash was in Bangalore & on 14th we went to to Bannerghatta National Park. We did Tiger and Lion Safari. We saw lot of tigers and some lions (A Lion Family). Not a bad trip. Overall was very exciting. The animals were very healthy. Sometimes it resembles more of a zoo than a national park with lot of animals in cages.

(WHITE TIGER IN RESERVED AREA)

The park is around 10 kilometer from Arekere Gate (22 KM from Majestic Bus station, Bangalore) and took around 15 minutes to reach. Well maintained and has also a good zoo. Some other attractions also are there including butterfly park, elephant safari etc (We missed it). Pretty much a good destination for people with kids and also good for those who are nature loving to have a chance to spend some time out from the mechanical world.

Well, Being the starting summer season, I dint expect much of the greenery and so one could see the park was all dry with few small ponds. I could hardly see a bird in there. Few deers, blackbucks, cows, and then the Beer sanctuary, where some were lazying around on the road itself, and some were dancing around with vehicles coming and going, giving all sort of possible responses. Its the lions area after that of beer's if I remember correctly, two of them, with two sitting together, don’t know doing what, but as if they had no connection to the external world.

(MONKEY FAMILY)

Well, a good number of tigers (25 from sources) , in there, and we could have a close look at 'em, again pretty much having a small walk or some sleeping, as usual, I dont know if I was missing, the roars, or some happening around, everything seemed to be pretty much silent, or probably I was missing something I am not sure what.

(BEAR IN RESERVED AREA)

(LOVE BIRDS)

We headed to the zoo area, where we could see, some parrots, ducks, peacocks and white peacocks, This is my second zoo visit after Mysore zoo, Actually I dint really like the cages and the chains around the wild animal.

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