Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park

Meruka India Tourism Service
India Wildlife and Medieval Tour for Mr. Aladdin
Mumbai – Rajkot - Sasan Gir – Alang - Ahmedabad – Delhi – Corbett – Delhi - Neemrana – Jaipur - Ranthambhore – Fatehpur Sikri – Agra – Delhi - Bandhavgarh – Kanha – Pench – Nagpur – Mumbai

34 Nights – 35 Days
Cut short to 30 days due to VISA issues


Day 9: Corbett

Early morning after breakfast, go for Jeep Safari or visit Tumeria Dam, 45 minutes drive from Corbett wilds lies the remount training School near Hempur and a short distance through the RTS, lies the Tumeria Dam. The structure in itself is a fun place to visit and educational for all, be it children or serious bird watchers. It is a rich attraction for migratory as well as domestic feathers. Later day is free for individual activities, Dinner and overnight at the jungle resort.


Wednesday 13th of January 2016 I was out of bet at 5 thirty. Shower and I was at the reception Jim Corbett National park6 o'clock. We were on the way to entry gate Amdanda to enter the Bijrani Zone,

We were the first jeep to arrive to the gate and my Driver took my passport and he went to register us and the jeep. I had been in the front seat with the Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Parkheating on the way to the park.

Now I got out of the car and I took a few pictures before taking my seat in the back wrapped in a blanket.

Cold in Jim Corbett Park It was cold, and the blanket helped a wee bit. But as soon as we start moving the wind is very cold. It is usually getting better when the sun rise above the trees. And of course, if we see something exciting I forget the cold in a jiff. My last day at Jim Corbett park and it will Yet another Smiley on www.aladdin.st hopefully get warmer when I'm going South to look for more tigers.

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
Selling snacks across the road

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
Selling snacks across the road

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
Ready to enter the park

We entered the park and as we picked up speed down the dirt track it got colder. I got a few pictures from the morning safari that you can see below.

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
A beautiful morning in Jim Corbett Park

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
A beautiful morning in Jim Corbett Park

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
A beautiful morning in Jim Corbett Park

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
Spotted Deer

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis, นกกะเต็นอกขาว
White-throated Kingfisher

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
Sambar Deer
Among others I have used Peter Ericsson's web page Birds of Thailand These galleries contain 668 species of the Birds of Thailand and have been of a great help to identify some of the birds as the birds in Thailand and India are, well, many of them are the same.

I have had most help from my friend, the bird pal I met at Suan Rot Fai. Sending pictures of birds I have not been able to identify to him via Line. 3 minutes later he and he have managed to identify most of the birds I have had problems with. THANKS! Visit his web page m☥lever for his beautiful pictures.

And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park.

We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room.

So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help.

Of course, all bird pictures available on my Indian
bird checklist of bird I have seen by clicking HERE

Of course, I have seen many many more, but this list is for birds I managed to get on picture

Some of the pictures are OK, and some of them are straight up in a very poor quality



Yet another safari (game drive) have come to an end. No tigers, but we saw a White-throated Kingfisher when we were leaving the park, so it was OK. Tigers or no tigers, it was a beautiful Corbett Riverside Resortmorning in a beautiful park and I enjoyed every minute. And that is even though I was ice cold.

I went for toast and tea in the restaurant when I was back. The Indian food is not my favourite, but they are really nice here.

The second night and they mad special pasta for me. And yesterday they made chicken, but a misunderstanding and I could not eat the special chicken.

When I returned from the afternoon safari yesterday they asked what I wanted to eat. I said it was OK with tea and naan.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah
- Chicken?
- No thanks!

I had second thoughts and I asked for grilled chicken without any spices. He misunderstood me and I found my chicken Tandoori style. He thought that I didn't wanted SPICY but I didn't Corbett Riverside Resortwanted any spices, just grilled chicken. Never mind, first class service and you have to look hard to find friendlier people.

Time to go back to entry gate Amdanda for the afternoon safari at Jim Corbett National Park, my last safari (game drive) in Corbett. And as my SIM is not working even though Vodaphone said it would work today they discussed my SIM card.

The manager asked my Driver to take me to town after the safari to sort out the SIM card. So we will take off for our second night safari in town, yesterday Diet Pepsi safari and today we're off for a SIM card safari. No end to the excitements around here.

As it is my last game drive and no tigers I hope to see on today. My driver told me that it was very hard to see the tigers in Corbett because of all the grass and leafs on the trees. Just what I Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Parkhad read on the internet. But this time of the year when it is cold there are no snakes and scorpions in the hotel room (Yet another Smiley on www.aladdin.st Hopefully)

May and June is the time to see the tigers. Dry season and the tigers can sometimes be seen from the hotel and in the town when they go to drink water in the river. That would have been nice, to see a tiger drinking water at the hotel pool

Like in Africa, Hippo track in the grass just outside my tent, exciting! But a spider in the shower was enough for me to shit myself. Cold or not, I'm not focusing my eye anywhere trying to avoid detecting any scorpions and snakes etc.

Well, we entered the park quarter to 2 and below you can see some of the pictures from the afternoon adventure. So hang on, this can turn out to be exciting!

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park

Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus axillaris
Black-shouldered Kite

Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus axillaris
Black-shouldered Kite

Changeable Hawk-eagle, Nisaetus cirrhatus
Changeable Hawk-eagle

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
Spotted Deer

Long-tailed Shrike, Lanius schach
Long-tailed Shrike

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
We stopped at one of our “Tiger spotting sites” at the dry river

We have seen everything in the Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park. Tiger tracks, tiger poo Tiger poo and scratch marks on trees but no tigers.

We hear warning calls from monkeys, Spotted Deer and the Barking Deer. The Barking Deer sounds exactly like a, yes, a dog. And you can hear them from a very long distance. So we have had all the signs of tigers but no sightings.

Well, except for the one yesterday, but I don't put it down in my book as a sighting.

We have stopped at the dry river as we have done on every safari here in Bijrani Zone. It is easy to understand that the park is closed during the rain season. All the dried rivers are used to drive on and when these big rivers are full of water it is impossible to drive around in the park.

We stood there and we could hear the monkeys screaming warning, that meant either a tiger or a leopard. A minute later I heard a Spotted Deer screaming a warning.

A little later we could hear a Barking Deer and he was close. Easy to hear the difference between the Barking Deer and the Spotted Deer. And suddenly we could hear the tiger growl and it was loud. It was so loud that I got goose bumps. It was impressive to hear the tiger in the jungle. What a great day this turned out to be, can it get any better? Wil we see the tiger?

The Barking Deer sounds like a dog and the head looks like a dog. And if you want to know, the Peafowl sounds like an elephant. Well, not, but it sounds like a trumpet. And the Peafowl warning was the reason for us to see the leopards in Gir National Park.

So the animal warnings are a great help when on a game drive. We waited and waited, if we were lucky we would see a tiger. Suddenly we saw a tiger coming out from the forest and then the tiger disappeared. A few minutes later we saw the tiger walk in the forest a few hundred meters from us.

Too far away in the shadow and we had the sun against us. The tiger was between us and the sun. And the best is if you are between the tiger and the sun.

Looking over the dry river and my camera settings was for sunlight. Of course, when the tiger showed up again I was so excited that I forgot all about the settings.

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
A tiger far away

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
A tiger far away

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
A tiger far away

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
A monkey in a tree

Tiger Safari in Bijrani Zone at Jim Corbett National Park
Time to leave the park
Among others I have used Peter Ericsson's web page Birds of Thailand These galleries contain 668 species of the Birds of Thailand and have been of a great help to identify some of the birds as the birds in Thailand and India are, well, many of them are the same.

I have had most help from my friend, the bird pal I met at Suan Rot Fai. Sending pictures of birds I have not been able to identify to him via Line. 3 minutes later he and he have managed to identify most of the birds I have had problems with. THANKS! Visit his web page m☥lever for his beautiful pictures.

And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park.

We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room.

So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help.

Of course, all bird pictures available on my Indian
bird checklist of bird I have seen by clicking HERE

Of course, I have seen many many more, but this list is for birds I managed to get on picture

Some of the pictures are OK, and some of them are straight up in a very poor quality



Last safari in Jim Corbett Park and I got to see a tiger, far away but close enough to se that it was a very beautiful animal. The Guide and Driver was on cloud #9. They have seen many tigers, but all the Guides so far, both here and in Gir National Park have been dedicated animal and nature lovers.

They really want o se the tigers and the Guide and Driver were much more excited than I was. And they like the foreign visitors as they are interested in everything. The Indian visitors only Buying Indian SIM cardcome to see the tigers, everything else is of no interest. And to throw garbage, the Guides really hated it.

So they were very happy to drive around with me looking at birds and all the other animals in the park.

We finished the last safari in Jim Corbett and my Driver and me went for a night safari in town to look for a SIM card. We had to go to several shops before we found someone selling SIM card for all India. Otherwise they are only good in the state you buy it. It worked and they guaranteed that it would work all over India.

I skipped the dinner and I munched on some potato chips that I bought on our SIM card safari. We will depart at 06:00 tomorrow morning. It have been a fantastic 3 days here in Jim Corbett, fantastic game drives and a fantastic staff at Corbett Riverside Resort. Highly recommended if you ever come to Corbett.

Tomorrow morning @ 06:00 and we will depart for Jaipur, the Pink City. You just need to click HERE to find out about that adventure, yet another road trip in India.

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