Lodhi Garden, Delhi. One of my favourite sanctuaries in the city.
Over
the winter of 2012/13, I will be going to India and South Asia for the
sixth time. My trip will criss-cross the subcontinent and include almost
a month in Sri Lanka — and of course I will be blogging and posting
updates to
Twitter and
Facebook
along the way. In India it is very wise to go with the flow, so I will
no doubt have unscheduled travel adventures, and discover stories of
events, people and places I never dreamed of. But in the meantime, The
South India & Sri Lanka Highlights Tour takes you on a timeless discovery and exploration of the Golden Period of Dravidian architecture.
Ban on tiger tourism causes an uproar
Last week, the
Supreme Court in India ordered an interim ban on tourism in “core zones” of more than 40 tiger reserves.I never saw a tiger when I was at Ranthambhore National Park, one
of the India’s premier tiger reserves, in 2011
Below, I interview two tiger conservationists in India to get their
views on whether banning tiger tourism will help or hinder tigers —
whose numbers are quickly diminishing.This news has caused an
understandable uproar among conservationists and the travel and tourism
industry — and there are people speaking out on both sides of the
issue. Time is running out for this
magnificent animal and for many other species — not to mention the few
forests and wild, natural places left in India.
But I developed a keen
interest in the fate of the tiger,
India’s iconic animal symbol, and
wrote about my visit in Looking for India’s tigers in Ranthambhore.
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