Hard to explain this photo, since this just looks like an advertisement for National Geographic. First, by this time, if you've been reading the blog, you'll know that we went to Ranthambhore National Park primarily to see Tigers in the their native habitat - one of the very few places in the World where you can actually do that. The first afternoon was fascinating, but a bust in the sighting of a Tiger. And the next morning's safari as far as tiger sightings resulted in only a couple of emergency calls from spotted deer and monkeys that a Tiger was in the area, and a Tiger track on the road.
So once we finally made it through the traffic jam from hell, we came into this beautiful sanctuary on a lake - and within a few minutes, someone had yelled "tiger". Turns out there were three tigers all hanging out together (they were actually two years old teenagers, believe it or not, who are close to striking out on their own). We first saw them on one side of the lake, then one hunted for a bird, swam across the lake. They then hung out under a old Hindu temple - until they finally moved to the other side of the lake, up the hill, where one gave us this perfect picture pose.
Maybe a better way to explain this - we saw a Leopard for 30 seconds, and it was the talk of conversation for hours - this was just in a whole other league.
