@ Bandipur & Madumalai @ 2:00 am in the morning

Well... Its true. I had been to Ooty 3 weeks back, which according to me was a memorable trip.
I did forget to write about it. Though I will not write about the whole two day trip in a detailed post, I would like to write a small post about my encounter with some wild animals on the way to Ooty.

Well, the day was 25 July 2008, we left Bangalore @ 10:30pm in the night. We reached Bandipur area around 1:45 am in the morning. After a little slowdown, we entered the forest around 2:00 am in the morning.

You may not find much vehicular traffic during this time of the day. Although there were few trucks coming from the opposite direction we did not find any trucks in front or behind us. With every truck which came in the opposite direction we started thinking, " this guy would have sent all the wild animals back by honking ", but we were totally wrong. The deer, bison were all unperturbed.

We were lucky to spot lots of deers all along the way. On a whole we saw around 30-50 deers, happily grazing. We also could see 7-8 wild bison which were grazing at a very close distance to the road. Then there was a herd of wild elephants just about 1ft from the road. This was a very great encounter, it was just an awesome experience altogether. Watching these animals in circus or zoo is totally different. Finally after 1.5 hrs of driving slowly we were through the forest area.