Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Chandrapur, Maharastra
One of the amazing experience from travel from recent past is Tadoba or Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve near Chandrapur, Maharastra. Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve is one of the finest & largest National Parks in Maharashtra currently having close to 88 tigers. They named all the tiger like
Maduri, Madhu etc. Really nice.
This beautiful wild paradise is situated 45 km close to Chandrapur District of central Indian State Maharashtra, and is about 150 km from Nagpur city which is the nearest airport for visiting Tadoba national park. Its name 'Tadoba' is derived from the name of God "Tadoba" or "Taru" whiich is praised by local tribal people, whereas "Andhari" is derived from name of Andhari river. It is believed that Taru was the village chief who was killed in an fierce encounter with Tiger and thus a shrine was made in remembrance of God Taru. This region was predominantly ruled by Gond tribes which had their own Kingdom in large area of Central India. Their descendents are still can be seen in local villages.
We had this road trip in the month of March 2018 with 12 photographers from Hyderabad, Telangana.
Thanks to Ram Nagesh, CEO & Founder, HDPC (Hyderabad Digital Photography Club) for organizing such a wonderful trip.
Being booked a 12 seaters luxury mini bus, we started around 11:30 pm and reached there around 8:30 am. Due to rain, we took little longer time than expected but comfortable journey.
On the way, we haulted at Asifabad for the morning breakfast and tea. Then we started again to cover rest of the 70km of our last lap.
We reached and checked in the Hotel ND. Nice hotel, confortable rooms and good service.
This is in Chandrapur. This hotel is almost in the center and all the four gates of the Tadoba Tiger Reserve is almost close to 27 - 30 km.
We got bath and ready for the afternoon safari to Tadoba - Moharli gate, oldest entrance of the reserve.
In between we had our lunch at Tigerland Food Plaza. They took almost an hour to prepare our food, being very hungry, we finished our food in no time. Due to some issue, we couldn't made it but then we went to lake inside the forest region and enjoyed birding and photography.
We have returned back to hotel, got freshed up and had our dinner in the hotel only.
Next day we woke up at 3 am and started by 4:00 am to the Tadoba Moharli Gate. Around 7:30 am, we started for our long awaited safari. Unfortunately, we didn't spot any tiger but enojyed other animals along with ride to hunt for tiger. Finally we came back around 10:30 am. Then we had our lunch and took some rest there only.
Again around 2:30 pm, we started for our second safari from Junari gate. This was in open gipsy and more adventurous. We went through deep forest, listening to guide on the way about how male and female tiger and tigeress mark their territory. He showed us tiger claw marks on trees and paw mark
on the ground.
We found lots of birds, monkeys, deers but our we all seems dissatisfied as we were yet to sight any tiger. Finally, the momemt came when someone told us that tiger just had water and should cross this road anytime. We started waiting for the Tigeress and finally she came, People called her Choti Madhu.
Really speaking, you can't understand the royalness of tiger or tigeress unless you see his/her walking elegantly. She passed by us. Then our driver anticipating that tiger would go to the open field, he drove us. He was right, we enjoyed like anything and more as photographer, we clicked many shots. Though we wanted to stay little longer but it was already 6:30 pm and getting darker.
Finally we returned back and move out of the jungle area but with big statisfaction of seeing a tigeress.
From there we went to Uncle Da Dhaba, very nice place for authentic veg punjabi food. We had our dinner and started around 10 pm via. adilabad route. We reached Hyderabad around 4am.
It was really nice trip with HDPC and fellow photographers. A must visit place for all wildlife photgraphers and wildlife lovers.
Maduri, Madhu etc. Really nice.
This beautiful wild paradise is situated 45 km close to Chandrapur District of central Indian State Maharashtra, and is about 150 km from Nagpur city which is the nearest airport for visiting Tadoba national park. Its name 'Tadoba' is derived from the name of God "Tadoba" or "Taru" whiich is praised by local tribal people, whereas "Andhari" is derived from name of Andhari river. It is believed that Taru was the village chief who was killed in an fierce encounter with Tiger and thus a shrine was made in remembrance of God Taru. This region was predominantly ruled by Gond tribes which had their own Kingdom in large area of Central India. Their descendents are still can be seen in local villages.
We had this road trip in the month of March 2018 with 12 photographers from Hyderabad, Telangana.
Thanks to Ram Nagesh, CEO & Founder, HDPC (Hyderabad Digital Photography Club) for organizing such a wonderful trip.
Being booked a 12 seaters luxury mini bus, we started around 11:30 pm and reached there around 8:30 am. Due to rain, we took little longer time than expected but comfortable journey.
On the way, we haulted at Asifabad for the morning breakfast and tea. Then we started again to cover rest of the 70km of our last lap.
We reached and checked in the Hotel ND. Nice hotel, confortable rooms and good service.
This is in Chandrapur. This hotel is almost in the center and all the four gates of the Tadoba Tiger Reserve is almost close to 27 - 30 km.
We got bath and ready for the afternoon safari to Tadoba - Moharli gate, oldest entrance of the reserve.
We have returned back to hotel, got freshed up and had our dinner in the hotel only.
Next day we woke up at 3 am and started by 4:00 am to the Tadoba Moharli Gate. Around 7:30 am, we started for our long awaited safari. Unfortunately, we didn't spot any tiger but enojyed other animals along with ride to hunt for tiger. Finally we came back around 10:30 am. Then we had our lunch and took some rest there only.
Again around 2:30 pm, we started for our second safari from Junari gate. This was in open gipsy and more adventurous. We went through deep forest, listening to guide on the way about how male and female tiger and tigeress mark their territory. He showed us tiger claw marks on trees and paw mark
on the ground.
We found lots of birds, monkeys, deers but our we all seems dissatisfied as we were yet to sight any tiger. Finally, the momemt came when someone told us that tiger just had water and should cross this road anytime. We started waiting for the Tigeress and finally she came, People called her Choti Madhu.
Really speaking, you can't understand the royalness of tiger or tigeress unless you see his/her walking elegantly. She passed by us. Then our driver anticipating that tiger would go to the open field, he drove us. He was right, we enjoyed like anything and more as photographer, we clicked many shots. Though we wanted to stay little longer but it was already 6:30 pm and getting darker.
Finally we returned back and move out of the jungle area but with big statisfaction of seeing a tigeress.
From there we went to Uncle Da Dhaba, very nice place for authentic veg punjabi food. We had our dinner and started around 10 pm via. adilabad route. We reached Hyderabad around 4am.
It was really nice trip with HDPC and fellow photographers. A must visit place for all wildlife photgraphers and wildlife lovers.
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