We have just returned from a two week trip to India. We stayed at Tiger Home, Ranthambore, Rajastan with Hemraj Meena. Hemraj is one of the main tiger guides in Ranthambore and is also a bird guide. Tiger Home is a small, family run hotel with a friendly atmosphere. There are 8 bedrooms which are all spotless clean. The chef will cook anything you want from an Indian banquet to scrambled eggs on toast. Tiger Home is very reasonably priced. It is situated just a few miles away from the main gates to the tiger reserve. A perfect location that is just set back off the main road.
Before we decided to go on this trip to India, we saw a programme on TV called Tiger Dynasty. It was about 2 tigers that had been re-located from Ranthambore to a neighbouring area where tigers had once lived. Watching this story evolve and the tiger's struggle made us want to go and see these beautiful creatures. You can imagine our shock and delight when Hemraj said a BBC filmcrew were in the hotel with us as they were filming another documentary on the Ranthambore tigers. An even bigger delight was that the cameraman was Nalla Muthu who had made Tiger Dynasty. He is a lovely, gentle man who has given his whole life to tiger conservation and we felt honoured and priviledged to spend our holiday with him and his crew. Nalla can be found at www.tigercameraman.com/blog
We made some good friends during our stay with Hemraj. Some, we are sure, will be friends for life. We are hoping to return to Tiger Home some time later in the year. We can thoroughly recommend Tiger Home for your Ranthambore stay. If you need and further details, please let us know. Tiger Home can be found at www.ranthamboreecotourism.com
We managed 170 birds while we were there, 24 of them being new. Bird of the trip just had to be the Indian Coursar. One of our 'wanted' birds that was so difficult to locate and also very difficult to get close to but we managed to see 6 birds in total. Brilliant! We also saw 4 tigers, one girl we saw many times. One of the main highlights though, had to be the leopard. She was simply stunning and so beautiful. A fabulous 2 weeks !
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