It was a long and boring journey in the state transport bus. The driver tested our patience with plenty of stops giving us a surprize chance to measure our tolerance level and collected extra cash in the process. No need to say that we passed the test painfully and reached Kanha national park with tortured looking faces.
Ohh, i just missed to mention two european cheer girls that joined us midway and motivated us to finish the test, ok, they were not cheer girls exactly but good enough to revital us in the tiring heat. Most of us felt lucky that the girls decided to stay in the same hotel as ours but i thought it was our hard work in completing the frustrating journey that paid us blonde inedible fruits. I had already completed one round of daydreaming bout 'em during the bus journey and the second round in Kanha was too hot to handle as they were to spend night within few yards from us.
Dreams apart, none of us dared start any conversation with 'em and we proceeded to inquire about the schedule to enter the national park. And it turned out that we can visit the park just like a zoo, the only difference being roaming animals of the jungle would be viewing us trapped in a jeep. Now we got an advise that the best chance to encounter tigers in the jungle is early morning, so i am back to the daydream of blondes with fresh fantasies.
The next day
It was about 5 in the morning when i was having my last cigarette before entering the jungle. Sunlight was just about to replace darkness' rule in the jungle and our jeep was slowly moving on the narrow roads. Chilled air was hitting my body hard in the moving vehicle but the expectations of the thrills lying ahead kept my spirits high. I was recalling the jungles i had seen in the movies and strained my eyes to locate animals of different shapes and sizes but what i really got to see was something like watching a special episode about deers on the idiot box!
That's it, two or three types of deers was all we saw after roaming for almost three hours in the so called jungle. Anyway, still we were looking forward to a probable encounter with a tiger in its natural habitat. But as usual my bad luck worked again, another jeep which entered the jungle ahead of us met a tiger and we just missed to catch him before he disappeared again. So now it was upto the jungle administration to show us at least one tiger and make our trip worth their charge. And they did it, they had located a tiger resting in a very dense part of the jungle where only elephants can reach.
Finally here's the most exciting part of the tour - watching the most dangerous animal of the jungle while sitting on the most powerful of 'em. But when i looked at the tiger sitting quietly at a far corner of the area covered by dense trees almost like i had seen them in our city zoo, i felt almost triumphant. He had succeeded in trapping me in the jeep for hours & now it was his turn to helplessly let us get entertained by disturbing his afternoon nap.
Mission accomplished.
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