Once the exclusive hunting ground of the erstwhile maharajas of Mysore, the Nagarhole forest reserve is today counted as one of India’s best wildlife parks.
Female Sambhar
Grey Langur
Indian Crested Serpent Eagle
Gaur – Largest Wild Cattle
Giant Malabar Squirrel
Chital or Spotted Deer
Tusker Time!
Painted Storks
A herd of elephants saunters away from the Kabini river.
A walk in the rain. Tusker enjoying a sudden downpour.
Smooth-coated otters. An excited naturalist shared they were a rare sighting.
The roof of my cottage beckons invitingly as we return from the river safari completely drenched!
Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu, travel enthusiast and the author of Adrift: A junket junkie in Europe is the youngest of four siblings born into an aristocratic family of Punjab. Dogged in her resistance to conform, and with parental pressure easing sufficiently over the years, she had plenty of freedom of choice. And she chose travel.
She was born in Shimla, and spent her formative years at their home, Windsor Terrace, in Kasumpti while schooling at Convent of Jesus & Mary, Chelsea. The irrepressible wanderlust in her found her changing vocations midstream and she joined Singapore International Airlines to give wing to her passion. She has travelled extensively in Asia, North America, Australia, Europe, South Africa and SE Asia; simultaneously exploring the charms within India.
When she is not travelling, she is writing about it. Over the past decade or so, she has created an impressive writing repertoire for herself: as a columnist with Hindustan Times, as a book reviewer for The Tribune and as a contributor to travel magazines in India and overseas. Her work-in-progress, the documenting of colonial heritage along the Old Hindustan-Tibet Road, is an outcome of her long-standing romance with the Himalayas.
