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Bandipur tales : The Big Cat Chase

Posted in Karnataka, adventure, bandipur, wildlife, tagged , , , , , , , on August 6, 2009 | 23 Comments »

Panthera tigris and Panthera pardus are the two big cats in the southern Indian forests. Almost every visitor wants to see a tiger, but there are many who want to see only a tiger. On most days, the safari will be a chase for the the elusive Leopard, and the majestic Tiger. More so for [...]

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Bandipur tales : The unexpected

Posted in adventure, photography, wildlife, tagged , , , , on July 30, 2009 | 11 Comments »

A mother and calf running for safety as a reckless driver sped past them on the highway. We were coming back from evening safari, four elephants were on the highway, two mothers and two calves. One of the elephants was drinking water from a pothole on the highway, and we were watching the beautiful sight. [...]

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Back from Bandipur

Posted in Life, adventure, photography, travel, wildlife, tagged , , , on July 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I’m back in Bangalore, after spending two incredible weeks at Jungle Lodges and Resorts, Bandipur, where i worked as volunteer Naturalist. If you were following me on twitter, you would have seen my live updates from safaris.
I’ll write more about my experience in the weeks to come. Too many things to catch up now. More [...]

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Birding trip – Galibore, Cunchi Falls, and Muthathi

Posted in Birding, adventure, bird watching, photography, travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2008 | 34 Comments »

I was awake by 4am, even before the alarm went off. I’ve got this strange sleeping habit (sleeping disorder?). I sleep at 2 am some days, wake up at 6:30am. I hit the bed by 12:30am, but wide awake till about 5am, and up again by 7:30am. Rarely, of late, i get to sleep till [...]

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Gone Goa

Posted in adventure, travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Second week of March, on the Mas-Vasco Express, overnight and a little over day journey to cover a distance of about 600 kilometers with prolonged stops in between was a little frustrating. Luckily i decided to board the train at Yeshwantpur junction at 9:30pm, instead as per the earlier plan to board at KR Puram [...]

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Hogenakkal falls – The Smokin’ rocks

Posted in adventure, travel, tagged , , on December 16, 2007 | 13 Comments »

There are days when most of the things you want to do converge, there are others when i just sit at home and stare at the obscure CRT monitor. This Saturday was one of those days when a million things i had to do converged, and had to set ‘priorities’ even if i hate to [...]

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Trek to Chembra peak, Wayanad

Posted in adventure, travel, tagged , , , , , , on December 12, 2007 | 17 Comments »

This was my first holiday after nearly four years. Canceling a much anticipated plan, i decided to go to Wayanad, i can’t say if it was worth more than the other plan for reasons not so obvious. Anyway, five of us left on a hired cab on Friday evening from work. This trek was in [...]

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My experiments with the brain – part I

Posted in adventure, brain, mind, tagged , , , , , on November 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »

I am always fascinated the way a human brain works, which i consider the most powerful and beautiful part. Left part of the body is controlled by the right part of the brain and vice versa. I tried to meddle with the right-handedness or left-handedness, and confuse the brain a little bit. Tried table [...]

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Barapole rafting expedition

Posted in adventure, coorg, rafting, travel, tagged , , , on September 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »

After planning and failing a couple of times for Kail river rafting, i agreed without a second thought for rafting at Coorg when Chethan asked me some time in mid July. I didn’t ask who, when, how or anything for that matter. It did happen early September, and it was quite an adventure!
The journey [...]

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