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Mar. 4, 2010 I’ve been in India since June 17, 2009, but I’ve been in Bengaluru (Bangalore), the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka and India’s fifth city, only since December 24. Monday, March 1, 2010, I’ll be flying to Trivandrum, also called Thiruvananthapuram, in the state of Kerala, on the very tip of India. I’ll be in Trivandrum for 6 or 8 weeks, according to my latest thinking. I’m flying because I’m doubtful of India’s railways and bus lines. One bus I traveled on, though it was designed for 40, accepted about 45 passengers, and it was rickety and cramped. Anyway, I wanted to visit Bannerghatta National Park, in Karnataka, south of Bengaluru about 15 miles before I leave. I went Tuesday by autorickshaw in incredible traffic where it would be easy to get injured or killed, but the park was closed. I think the driver of the autorickshaw knew it was closed but did not want to forgo the fare by telling me as much. The same driver drove me back. Twenty dollars gone with the wind! I went again Wednesday, and was grateful to find it open and not very crowded. The main attraction of Bannerghatta National Park, which sprawls over 25,000 acres, that is almost 40 square miles, is the collection of Indian tigers and lions living and roaming in their natural habitat. Indian lions are considered critically endangered and Bengal tigers are considered endangered, but there were both in Bannerghatta Park. The lions and tigers, as well as bear and deer, have territories that cover acres and acres. Each species is separated from the others by high woven-wire fences. Visitors are conducted in buses down paved roads that thread their way through the various dominions. To pass through the fence, the bus enters and exits a sally port, which prevents any sudden immigration or emigration of animals. Below I have included links to some of the pictures that I took in Bannerghatta Park. The white tiger does not constitute a separate species, but is an albino Bengal tiger. Nonetheless the white tigers were segregated from the orange tigers. I saw only lionesses, no male lions. In a couple of the pictures, some fencing may be noticed, but the animals are not enclosed at all. They rove at complete liberty. In this case, it is the people who are in cages. I did not get any decent shots of the bear or deer that I saw. As for the monkeys, they are not segregated from people. There are monkeys outside the park too, even miles away, as Karnataka in general is monkey country. These are Rhesus monkeys, I think, and they can be dangerous to young children. Bannerghatta Park also has a conventional zoo, but I spent little time there. There is a butterfly conservatory too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/10024490@N05/4384546396/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/10024490@N05/4386118869/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/10024490@N05/4383816827/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/10024490@N05/4386122691/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/10024490@N05/4384549330/sizes/l/ ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Visit my website here. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! 
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