Lions and Tigers and Bears... Oh my

So after the V~~~ Sceince Museum we did some driving around and looked that government buildings, the Capital, High Court, etc. After that we headed out for the Bannerghatta Zoopark. This is a little trek outside the city. On the way I saw some interesting things. Like the car part streets. One whole street had stall after stall just selling tires and the next just car parts. After a 30-40 minute ride outside the city you come to the Zoopark.

It looks quite hectic at first glance there are rows and rows of buses and a row of stalls selling food, much of it cooking over smoky fire pits. The smell of the smoke was very powerful and made me want to grab a fire extinguisher. Even the Indians on the tour with me seemed a bit overwhelmed and they all agreed we should stay together while in the park. They had several different types of Safaris we could go on. Of course we chose the “Grand Safari”.

First off you get your tickets for the safari then you get in a line where a guard stamps your ticket, then you get in another line where another guard stamps your ticket again and then… you get in a third line where a guy tears your ticket. Only then do you get on the bus that takes you around the park.

The park is set up along the lines of the Safari parks in the US. You get in a bus and they drive you in the various areas where you can see the animals roaming about almost like they were in the wild. The first enclosure we came to had buffalo, deer and boars and the driver dutifully stopped the bus so that we could snap some photos of the “wild animals”.

After that we came to the Bear enclosure where a bear was standing in the middle of the road. He took quite a while to demonstrate that there are some things that bears do on the road and not in the woods (notice the trail behind him… he was a well hydrated bear). We had plenty of time to photograph the bear. We then moved on to the rest of the bear enclosure and one bear climbed the very small trree. After the bears we saw the lions, then regular tigers and then the white tigers. All of the enclosures were fairly similar.
After that we headed back to the buses for the journey home(which I have covered previously) Well I have one more day in the office and then I leave for Goa. Three days of fun in the sun. I will be out of communication for those days but will try to give a report before I leave for the states!