Prasad Np

Running the Rat race, scheming to swim with the sharks. Wondering what is left in rat race after conquering the corner office. Writes India Travel Blog desi Traveler, with stories and pictures from India.

Anti Poaching Camp in Bandipur Tiger Reserve- A day in life of A Forest Guard

Aug 082013
 
Anti Poaching Camp in Bandipur Tiger Reserve- A day in life of A Forest Guard

A visit to the Anti Poaching Camp- Bandipur Tiger Reserve As part of our Eco Volunteer Training program we were to visit an Anti Poaching Camp in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve. I will not repeat here why anti poaching camps are needed, we all know we have only about 2500 tigers left in the wild and our apex predator is in great danger from organized poaching camps to man animal conflict leading to casualties on both the side. We humans forgetting totally that the tigers were living in the jungle before humans started encroaching and dividing Tiger territory. Our [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Ramazan Night Market- Charminar Hyderabad

Aug 052013
 
Ramazan Night Market- Charminar Hyderabad

A Walk in Night Bazaar for Ramazan Food Walk at Charminar & Laad Bazaar   While the politicians squabble over the future of Hyderabad, Hyderabadis fasting and shopping during Ramadan.  The area around Charminar has a special significance during Ramazan, as there is a special Night Bazaar for Ramazan that keeps open till 2-3 am to cater to the shopping frenzy of Hyderabadis in the night. I was to meet my friends from GHAC for Ramazan near the Purani Haveli and then walk all the way to Charminar enjoying the street food, Irani Chai ( a special Hyderabad style tea with [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Stay at Forest Rest House in Bandipur Tiger Reserve

Aug 012013
 
Stay at Forest Rest House in Bandipur Tiger Reserve

  Karnataka Forest Department Rest House- Staying in the middle of Bandipur Tiger Reserve As part of our training for the Eco Volunteer Training program jointly organized by Karnataka Forest department, Eco Tourism Development board of Karnataka and Jungle lodges and resorts we had two options of stay: Stay in absolutely beautiful  and bordering luxurious JLR resort and pay around 17 thousand Rupees Stay in absolutely beautiful but basic Forest department residential complex in Bandipur Tiger reserve and pay around 4800 Rs. Which one do you think most of us chose? Hell we are volunteers, and chose the second [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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First day of Eco Volunteer Training with Karnataka Forest Department

Jul 292013
 
First day of Eco Volunteer Training with Karnataka Forest Department

Eco Volunteer Training-First day at Jungle Lodges Bandipur We got down at the first gate of Bandipur Tiger reserve by the KSRTC bus going to Ooty from Mysore.  Our Training venue was Jungle Lodges and Resort, campus on the main Mysore-Ooty highway, just an about 500 meter before the first gate of Bandipur Tiger reserve.  My contact with JLR, Mr. Poovappa was kind enough to send a safari jeep to pick us up from the gate of Bandipur Tiger Reserve. Once we reached the resort we were given room to freshen up, and I was very happy to note the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Padharo Mhare Desh-Welcome to Rajasthan

Jul 272013
 
Padharo Mhare Desh-Welcome to Rajasthan

 Road Trip from Delhi To Jaipur Ever felt like you owned the world, after taking a loan and neck deep in debt? That’s how I felt after buying our first car. The aroma from fresh plastic made me dizzy giving a high hard to describe. On the very first weekend after getting the car we hit the Jaipur Highway. A brand new car, “Dhoom Machale” blaring from speakers, almost empty highway, it was a heady cocktail; the louder Tata Young crooned the harder I pressed the accelerator. But  pleas from Missus to slow down brought me to senses. Once [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Eco Volunteer Training – Bandipur Tiger Reserve

Jul 262013
 
Eco Volunteer Training - Bandipur Tiger Reserve

Eco Volunteer Training Course- Karnataka Eco Tourism Development Board This will be a mother of all travel series on desi Traveler blog. I am still not sure how many posts will be there but fasten your seat belts as I take you with me to the Eco Volunteer Training Course by Karnataka Eco Tourism Development Board. This series has 3 main stars that I am a fan of namely 1. Travel 2. Wildlife in India 3.  Volunteer Travel So I think it will be one long series, ( kya karoon, Controll hee nahi hota!) But we will chop the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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desi goes to London

Jul 222013
 
desi goes to London

desi Traveler delivers some Sunshine in London desi Traveler desi Traveler, where have you been? I have been to London to see Doug & Doreen Yes, I know it is a poor parody of the popular nursery rhyme, but I could not resist mentioning it here about my second visit to London a few months after our marriage. I and Missus were going to Swiss Alps, and as London was our entry point to Europe, we decided to spend a few days there. Only the Queen was too busy to meet us, hence we visited Doreen and Doug in [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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The Perfect Road Trip

Jul 212013
 
The Perfect Road Trip

My Perfect Road Trip with Time Machine Let me go back in time for some time, by pressing some knobs and levers on the time machine. Great! The knobs and levers worked fine and here I am back in the days when we were a few years in our career and joined evening classes to do an MBA. Although secretly each one of us was hoping that we will have some girls in the class, not realizing that the sex ration in evening classes in those days was worse than day time Haryana. Slowly the 5 of us started [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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My First Snake picture in the Wild

Jul 182013
 
My First Snake picture in the Wild

Picture Of A Wild Water Snake Though I have always been scared of snakes as a person, as a Photographer I have always wanted to click pictures of a snake in wild, though from a distance. IT is not easy for a common man to know if the snake is poisonous or not hence my respect and fear for the snakes.  For most of us a snake is dangerous kind of animal. But surprisingly most of the snakes are harmless to humans and have their own role to play in nature by Eating rats they help farmers Are an [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Book Review of I Take This Train Too

Jul 132013
 
Book Review of I Take This Train Too

A Book Review of – I Take This Train Too by Cyrus Daruwala My Dear Readers I am sure,   by now you know how much I love travelling by trains, and have written posts about not only travelling in trains but also steps to book train tickets in tatkal on IRCTC website.  But recently I discovered somebody who not only loves taking  train but  also writes about it. I discovered about the book “I Take This Train Too” on the crowd funding site Wishberry, where author Cyrus Daruwala was looking for funding for his book.  Needless to say I [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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