Tigress leads the way... It was 6:00 am, and we were the first ones to enter the National Park. I was taking veteran CC Africa guests Sue and Allen Prince on their first drive in an Indian jungle. They are keen wildlifers and were hoping to see a tiger. There were some spotted deer alarm calls as we were driving up to the Park gate. Once inside, I told my guests we'd go in the direction of the alarm calls to investigate. As I turned around to face the road, I saw this this tigress make her way towards the road! I did a double take and looked again to ensure it was a tiger before I showed it to the guests. By that time she had made it to the track and was coming up ahead of me on the road. I pointed her out to the guests and everyone stared in disbelief. We were about three and a half minutes into our drive! I gave the tigress a headstart of a few minutes and slowly followed her for about 3 kms. She was out marking her territory. She made scrape and scat marks on the ground and scent marked trees. Every now and then she would turn around to glance at us. She was calm and unhurried. Needless to say we were in a sort of a trance the rest of the day! :)It was a maginificent sighting and everyone got great shots. Sue kindly gave me this picture to put on wildwatch. Posted: Baghvan by Ratna Singh, Date: 13 October 2007

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My husband Nick and I met Sue and Allen at Londolozi in South Africa about a year ago. Somewhere betwee Cape Town and San Francisco we lost their contact information, but we think of them often, since they were the first people with whom we shared the magic of an African safari. We just started doing research for a tiger safari and were so surprised to see their names here! I can see that Sue's unbelieveable wildlife viewing luck has not changed! Sue and Allen, if you see this, you had asked us to let you know if we decided to go see the chimps and gorillas this past summer. We did, and it was was amazing. Life changing. You must do it. We went to the Mahale Mountains in Tanzania to see the chimps and to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda to see the gorillas. (We also did a CC Africa circuit in the Serengeti) Hopefully we'll get a chance to show you the photos someday. Best wishes, Stephanie

By: Stephanie Stone, Date: 6 January 2008

Please pass my details to Stephanie Stone. Great to hear you and Nick are still travelling, would be great to catch up with you, we had a fantastic time in India and the lodges were great, happy to pass on any feedback to you. We also went to China last year and saw the pandas which were fantastic. We are off to Zimbabwe and Botswana tomorrow to the cc africa lodges so will keep checking emails and wildwatch to see if you manage to get this email Fingers crossed will be emailing soon Best wishes, Sue

By: Sue Prince, Date: 12 March 2008