BT Wild ART - A unique Journey to the wilderness: Pench

Hello friends, I know you were waiting for the blog but I could not make it because of my travel but to compensate delay will take you to Mowgli's world to reveal the best experience and some very good pictures of a fantastic journey. So today, I will update you on my latest visit to Pench Tiger Reserve, the experience was such that you will feel why you were not there and it will force you to plan a trip to Pench in near future, so let's move to the next section to feel the heaven through pictures and words.

मैं अकेला ही चला था जानिब-ए-मंज़िल मगर लोग साथ आते गए और कारवाँ बनता गया

This sentence narrates how the trip started, Amish/Sanjay/Parag/Mahesh/Abhinav and Yogesh are true follower of my blog and after reading these blogs they motivated Sarang/Ashwin/Ratan and Vishal as well to plan a nature trip to the forest which all agreed and I took responsibility to plan out the place and other things. Before I start let me acknowledge three more people for the trip without which the success was not possible, the none other than Vishnu and Team Book My Safari (Jogi and Saurabh’s Team)

It was a difficult task to make the right choice, how can I finalize the place it was a big challenge but my challenge was made easy by Jogi by helping me to finalize the Pench. The complete responsibility of arrangements was outsourced to Book My Safari who is best or I would say champions in wildlife travel. Everyone agreed for the place at once without any debate and we booked the dates for November 23, 2018, I know all of you are eager to know what happened on trip, let me tell you good things come with investment of time, if you wait; the best thing will come in the next section.

The Mowgli’s world

Finally, the day came for which we waited since September; we reached the place on November 23 where we got a warm welcome at Village Machhan. We all were charged up for the best time, even more charged up 8 debutants of 12. With a lot of expectations we entered the Mowgli’s world, the moment we entered, the feel of the forest with supportive weather made us crazy, green trees, dusty road and pure cold air what else one can demand. Though we all wanted to enjoy the forest with all animals and birds comes to us in our way but somewhere in our heart, the hidden greed was to sight the Big Cats. Even Vishnu and I wanted our new travelers to see Big Cats in the wilderness and one more greed to keep our record of cat sighting intact (that is too without Saurabh/Jogi with us). It was greed or request from heart difficult to judge but yes it worked when we were blessed with a super sighting of Leopard on day one itself.

The date with wilderness

The shining star Leopard was sitting on a rock as the head of the area and was looking at everyone in a style, all of us were lucky to sight him at the same time at the fag end of the safari. The craziness and greed got doubled now to see the King in the wild with which we ended the day with super tasty food served by Village Machhan team. Chicken Saoji for Non-Veggie and Gulab jamun for all of us was like treat from the hotel. This was not the end of the day, here we had one more reason to celebrate, it was Birthday of Amish sir, how can we forget the birthday of our beloved Sir the day ended with cake cutting (Sarang and Vishal still clueless on who ordered the cake😜and finally we made Amish sir to awake beyond his routine 😅

After wonderful day one the expectation was on high to find the King, we made all the effort to find but it is said that Tiger has seen you during the journey but you may not see him because of dense forest. However, we are nature lovers we are like never say die and search continued till the end time which turned rewarding when we meet the sub adult cub of the queen (lungdi tigress’s cub). The madness was out of control it was difficult to digest that on back-to-back safari we got double lucky. Now what next was the question for other safaris but an answer was simple, enjoy whatever comes your way, with this principle and continued madness we booked night safari, we were as if we want to stay in the forest itself forever and away from the concrete and digital forest (I mean City life). let's take a tour to a night safari then.

Night Safari a Unique Therapy

The night safari experience was unique in itself when we closed car's light for a couple of minutes, the experience was out of the world, which you will never get anywhere. The full moonlight, closed eyes, sparkling stars of a galaxy and unique sound of forest mosquitoes there no words to describe the heaven on earth. It was like natural medicine for relieving the day to day stress, though sighting is always difficult and taking a chance instead of sighting the USP was unique therapy of night view of the lovely forest.

The enthusiasm of all of us was unbelievable, after back-to-back three safaris people were ready for the next early morning trip. We all were ready to explore the forest with the same feeling even we had big sightings in first two safaris itself but we did not wanted to stop here and wanted more and more, we continued 3^rd and 4^th for exploring another part of the forest for lovely birds and other animals which we could not sight in the first two

Now while ending the blog let me update on the list we sighted during the trip: Tiger, Leopard, Jackals, Wild dog, spotted dears, Sambar deer, Blue bull, peacock, grey hornbill, Rufous Treepie, scops owl, Palm civet cat, Eurasian Thick-knee, monkeys, Bison and many more, will leave you with some pics to end the blog

Salute to the Nature lovers

Apart from Vishnu and me, others were not frequent travelers like us and were not used to back-to-back safaris but kind of enthusiasm and love towards nature they had was actually out of the world and unbelievable. While ending the trip they said they want more of such trips in near future to some other forest, this few words to repeat the forest trip itself explain the kind of experience all of us had. I salute each one for such lovely words and continued interest towards the wilderness.

Thanks a ton for your kind co-operation for making this trip the great one, many more to come.

The special appearance

Be it a Project or a travel plan, it will succeed only if the complete support system is in sync, we all know that 12 people were at the front enjoying the wilderness but let me applaud for the team who at the backend managed so well that we enjoyed without any kind pain during the journey.

Team Bookmysafari.com includes, Deepak, Amey, Saurabh and Jogi, guys amazing work for arrangements, the food, the place, the safari arrangements, transport everything was absolutely in place. You guys are master of wilderness. Best of luck and continue the best job

Vishnu, your expertise of wilderness and knowledge sharing was really great and enjoyed by everyone, thanks once again.

A message of the Day

Wildlife is Mother Nature’s greatest treasure, To protect it, we must take every measure