A Visit to Bannerghatta National Park

We went on a picnic to Bannerghatta National Park on Sunday the 4^th of May. We started at 7.30 am and reached the park by 8.15 am as it is a distance of just about 20 kms from our house. The park opens only at 9.00 am and so does the counter for the Safari tickets. There are many Safaris displayed on the board and the Grand Safari seemed the most attractive of the lot; the tickets are priced at Rs.125/- for adults and Rs.65/- for children below 12 years on the weekends and holidays. The prices are lower on working days. We had carried brunch,snacks, juice and plenty of water as the heat was quite terrible even early in the morning. Later, we found this was not necessary as a lovely resort hotel has opened there in Feb 2008.

As we had reached early we were the first in the queue and were able to get on to the first trip of the Grand Safari. Unfortunately we left out camera behind and were forced to take photographs with my husband’s mobile camera, so I apologise in advance for the poor quality of the photographs. Lacking a zoom lens, one has to literally search for the animals in some of the pictures!

You can see the Safari vehicle in the background; there were
two more buses behind us.