Bannerghatta National Park

Incidentally, it happened that we decided to visit Bannerghatta National Park on 9th March 2008(sunday). I was getting bored with day to day activities in Office so it was a nice break from this boredom. We booked a City Safari Taxi which cost us Rs.960/-(this is a packegae up & down from BNP).We started from Cox Town at 9.00 AM and reached BNP at 10.00AM.As it was sunday we didn't got any traffic. Bannerghatta National Park is about 22 km from Bangalore. Bannerghatta National Park is an important National Park in India one must not fail to visit if you visit Karnataka.The National Park boasts of Tiger or Lion safari which takes you on tour of the section where the big cats roam free. You ride inside a poorly designed diesel bus while the animals peer at you quite close by. This park spread over a 100 square kilometer has thick thorny undergrowth and dry deciduous forest teeming with animals. You can take an elephant ride into the less dense part of the forest too. Don't miss the Indian peacock - Pavo cristatus which is in dark blue color. This peacock is magnificent to behold when it is in the mood to display its full plumage. Peacock is the National bird of India and is considered as the vehicle for Murugan - a deity from south India.But when we visited them they were very quite.See the snaps below......

Sweet cute baby elephant sleeping tension free under its parents.

OWL

BLACK BUCK - Species,Salman Khan got jailed for killing

INDIAN ELEPHANT - giving Salute

ALIGATOR

PORKUPINE

Fishes in the aquarium.

SWAN

CHINESE FOWL

SMALL TORTOISE

Our face to face encounter with this tiger in the safari

WHITE TIGER

LION-King of the jungle(in this captivity they hv lost their wildness)

LIONESS

Friend LIONs-Sweet moment

INDIAN BEER - view from the Grand Safari

DEER

INDIAN PEACOCK

WHITE PEACOCK

We opted for Grand Safari (includes Lion,Tiger,Beer,Dear safari as well as includes Zoo Visit charges) .As it was a holiday the charges were as follows :

Adult - Rs.120/-(per head)

Senior Citizen - Rs.80/-(per head)

Camera-Rs.20/-(Digicam)

The safari duration was 1hr,but its better not to talk abt the condition of the safari bus.It makes huge amount of sound and jerks a lot.Here I want to mention that the guide was vry helpful.He was even helping us in capturing appropraite moment of the wildlife and the bus driver was giving a nice time of hault each time we got glimse of any animal.

Next we went to the zoo section.The animals in the zoo section are in horrible condition.I didn't liked the condition in which the animals are kept.

From there we went to the museum.In the museum there we watched documentary on wildlife (Ticket Rs.5/- per head) .

Videos on BNP :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDzYN6GMd0s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsCbNROlH1w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WmQbZxyp7o