DilliMeriJaan

I have been to many tiger reserves and each trip has been fantastic. I have never seen a tiger. We go in winters, when the forest is lush green and tigers could be sitting a foot away and we wouldn’t see it among the shrubs. So we have a very good time looking at migratory and resident birds, animals and trees. This time we spend 6 days in Ramnagar, the town near the national park. We chose a place right on River Kosi. The cool thing about a river bank, at the foothills of Himalayas, is the large number of water and mountain birds that you get to see. Lots of birders go uphill and click spectacular photos of mountain birds. And others go to river banks to see spectacular herons, storks, ducks and other water birds. At the river bank on foothills, as you may have guessed, you see both kinds. So it’s such a good idea to do this. We stayed at a place which had one complete side open to the river and a magnificent hill. So if a tiger or leopard wanted to come and have a drink ...