A refreshing sunday!

For a change, I got caged and felt happy seeing the cruel animals taking a stroll in the "limited" forest! I had been to Bannerghatta National Park, yesterday. A few rare moments to see the wildlife so close, in their originality! I have visited many zoos earlier but this one was a refresher.

The "grand safari" took us to Bear, Tiger, Lion dens. The rare moments were when:

1. We saw to bears playing and having a “friendly” fight. They were so much engrossed that they did not even bother to know that a huge van was just by their side. For more than ten minutes people were “silencing” each other to watch them play! Finally, we gave up and carefully crossed them.

2. We spotted a Tiger relaxing “royally” in the woods. We were busy taking photographs and the tiger was busy giving different poses. The tiger wanting to give more poses got up and started taking a stroll, just a touch away from us. A Royal walk. There were few kids in the van, who got scared seeing the tiger approaching them so closely, started crying. I don’t know what amused the tiger and it started moving towards the side of the van where the kids were crying. It was searching for ways to reach the kids. Its fierce looks were enough to make the bones shiver! I could not make out if it was disturbed by the “noise” made by children or it wanted to soothe the crying children. Driver took the van back instead of inviting danger into the van!

3. I, for the first time enjoyed seeing the most beautiful bird - peacock dance with its feathers open. Wow! That was awesome! For a moment, I was thinking if all the animals in the park were trained to pose! (Seems a poor joke for you but not for me. He he he) I guess, the peacock had the perfect weather to dance to the tunes of the monsoon. She opened her feathers, saw a few of us, then in slow motion took one round so that people standing in different sides could see her and enjoy. After five minutes of dancing she calmed down. Two minutes later she repeated the dance. It was wonderful!

There was one funny but “real” thing. One board said “Want to see the cruelest animal in the world? Open the door”. Behind the door, I know is a mirror.

You like animals? Take a day off and visit them.