Day 10 - Wednesday - Last Day & Return to Hyderabad
Today morning we were all set for our ride to Hyderabad. Google maps was showing us around 14.5 hours. The route shown was via Chikmagalur town, Hiriyur and after bypassing Challakere, it was taking us through some interior villages along the Karnatak-AP border and then we would emerge in Ananthapur district on the AP side. Here we would meet the Bangalore-Hyderabad highway and then straight to Hyderabad. I knew most of this route because last time too we passed Hiriyur and took the same route, so I was aware of how this route is. Frankly speaking the road is even better this time around as some under-construction roads have been laid.
Tigers clicked in the forests of Kabini, Karnataka
| Photo Credit:
Harsha Narasimhamurthy
With sanitised safari jeeps, smaller tour batches and a will to bring wildlife tourism back on track, national parks and sanctuaries across the country are getting back on track as they open the gates to local tourists
When the forest gates opened at Maharashtra’s Tadoba Andhari National Park in October in 2020, after a gap of seven months, Hyderabad-based K Venkateswarlu was one of the first visitors to step inside.
Passionate about wildlife photography, Venkateswarlu has been visiting forests for 13 years. But this time, given the pandemic, his experience of wildlife tourism was expectedly different. “The process of checking into resorts was longer and there were many rules in place. For instance, guests above the age of 55 and children below 10 years were not allowed. At Tadoba, in the initial days, the rooms were not given on a twin-sharing basis even if you had travelled toget