More than the elephants
or rhinos, tigers have always been India's emblematic
creatures. But even the tiger with the most gorgeous
coat may become a bore in the long run.
And so North
Indian Tourism boosts the experience by incorporating
tiger watching with temple sightseeing.
Immeasurable
India's biodiversity may be, but the number of the
tigers in the country, to say the least, is dwindling.
North Indian Tourism expends every outlet to circumvent
the glum statistics, any more than it goes out on a
limb to protect temple sites.
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Luckily enough for the tigers, India is blessed with refuges
that aren’t so much zoos as vast ecosystems. One of India's
finest, Ranthambore National Park sets the stage for a North
India Wildlife Tour of tigers.
Located in Rajasthan, the sanctuary
was included in the very first phase of Project Tiger. Its
tigers are frequently seen at the edges of three lakes, namely
the Padam Talab, Raj Bagh Talab and Milak Talab.
Project Tiger, however, was launched in 1973 from
Corbett National Park.
Named after Jim Corbett, the park
is one of the most congested in India – in terms
of tigers. The park in fact has a ratio of 1 tiger to
every 5 acres.
In time, the North India Wildlife Tour can get monotonous
from seeing relatively the same orange and black-striped
variety of tigers.
A trip to Bandhavgarh National Park guarantees otherwise,
with its spectacle of rare white Bengal tigers.
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These rarities notwithstanding, Bandhavgarh Wildlife Sanctuary
has one of the densest populations of tigers in the country. From
the tigers, the North India Wildlife Tour shifts to a dazzling
North India Cultural Tour of the temples.
Khajuraho is by far a superior stopover for this portion of the North India Tour. This place is celebrated for its more than 1,000-year old Chandela temples. With this, the traveler succumbs to a history lesson on eroticism.
Afterwards, the North India Tour may cross the oldest city in India, Varanasi, with its myriad of extremely old temples.
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