The eluding Jim Corbett
We were here in Delhi/Gurgaon since1986 and so close to Ramnagar and the famous Jim Corbett wild life sanctuary and never visited this alluding place!
Being an outdoor person would love to be in a forest especially in a world renowned forest The Jim Corbett, the Tiger reserve. He was born William James Corbett. He was known to be a hunter of the man eating tigers and leopards of Garhwal and Kumaon regions. He was instrumental in preserving the wild life in the forest and the park was named after him later.
If he was alive today he would be minting money in royalties for using his name. When you visit that area there isn’t one place which doesn’t have the name Corbett. I wonder why his children aren’t claiming it. I mean there is no exception, everything is Corbett
In childhood we used to go to so many forests and stayed in the most exciting Forest Guest houses like Bairluty in Nallamalla forest. The guest house was the only building in the thick forest and no civilisation for a few kilometres, very scary. They said that the marks on the door were those made by scratching of the tiger’s paws.
We did some fishing in the nearby pond using a safety pin as the hook and cooked rice as bait. Can you believe we did catch a tiny fish!
I went on a hunting trip with my friend and his dad, imagine going in the middle of the night in an open jeep just to see a tiger 🐅 Lucky or unlucky we didn’t sight any. In my first trip I saw an animal in the forest and didnt tell anyone thinking it was a donkey, my ignorance. It was a Sambhar, a deer like huge animal.
So when we moved to Delhi we thought we could visit Jim Corbett to see a tiger. We wanted to stay in Dhikala ONLY, a guest house right in the middle of the forest. We tried many a times and never could get a booking. It is still a mystery why we can’t get it.
It is almost 22 years and never could make this trip till now. Surprisingly an agent could get this booking done for the date’s we wanted!! How he managed I am not sure. Is there an underlying fraudulent scheme happening?
After such a long wait the alluding Corbett has finally given up and gave us an access, and that too at Dhikala for two days.What a happy moment it was.
Hoping to see a tiger or two. Waiting to get there.
Write to you soon
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We were here in Delhi/Gurgaon since1986 and so close to Ramnagar and the famous Jim Corbett wild life sanctuary and never visited this alluding place!
Being an outdoor person would love to be in a forest especially in a world renowned forest The Jim Corbett, the Tiger reserve. He was born William James Corbett. He was known to be a hunter of the man eating tigers and leopards of Garhwal and Kumaon regions. He was instrumental in preserving the wild life in the forest and the park was named after him later.
If he was alive today he would be minting money in royalties for using his name. When you visit that area there isn’t one place which doesn’t have the name Corbett. I wonder why his children aren’t claiming it. I mean there is no exception, everything is Corbett
In childhood we used to go to so many forests and stayed in the most exciting Forest Guest houses like Bairluty in Nallamalla forest. The guest house was the only building in the thick forest and no civilisation for a few kilometres, very scary. They said that the marks on the door were those made by scratching of the tiger’s paws.
We did some fishing in the nearby pond using a safety pin as the hook and cooked rice as bait. Can you believe we did catch a tiny fish!
I went on a hunting trip with my friend and his dad, imagine going in the middle of the night in an open jeep just to see a tiger 🐅 Lucky or unlucky we didn’t sight any. In my first trip I saw an animal in the forest and didnt tell anyone thinking it was a donkey, my ignorance. It was a Sambhar, a deer like huge animal.
So when we moved to Delhi we thought we could visit Jim Corbett to see a tiger. We wanted to stay in Dhikala ONLY, a guest house right in the middle of the forest. We tried many a times and never could get a booking. It is still a mystery why we can’t get it.
It is almost 22 years and never could make this trip till now. Surprisingly an agent could get this booking done for the date’s we wanted!! How he managed I am not sure. Is there an underlying fraudulent scheme happening?
After such a long wait the alluding Corbett has finally given up and gave us an access, and that too at Dhikala for two days.What a happy moment it was.
Hoping to see a tiger or two. Waiting to get there.
Write to you soon
Sent from my iPa
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