On the road

Spotted deer  There was a sign board hanging right outside on of the gates through which we entered the core area of the Tadoba National Park which said something along the lines of: 'Your guide may open the jungle book for you, but if you go in with the expectation of only seeing a tiger, you'll be disappointed.' Our second safari proved this. It was day two of waking up at an an ungodly hour. The gate to the core area was several kilometres away from our resort, so we had to get an early start. We woke up at 4am, got dressed, and were gathered in the parking lot by 4.45 am.  Tadoba National Park is located in Central India, in the state of Maharashtra.It is India's oldest and largest national park, spread over an area of 625 sq. kilometres. From what we were told by our guides, we came to understand that the Park is divided into the core zone and the buffer zones. Core area is all jungle, whereas the buffer zone, as the name suggests, is the area of overlap between th