Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India

With our new topic of airports, we're thinking about places in the world we'd like to go to.

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There are lots of places in the world I'd like visit. But here's one I found out about a few days ago.

It's one of the national parks for tigers set up in India, where you can go and see them. There is less and less space for tigers to live in - and less and less tigers too, so these parks are very important!



Apparently, there are also 10th-century shrines and hand-carved  caves within tropical forests, steep rocky hills and valleys. I've read that it's one of India's most beautiful parks. I really like wild places, so it sounds fascinating to me!

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As I've never been to India, visiting here would give me the chance to visit other places too!

I've now learnt, from Cristina, how to get a map of my flights to India, using the Great Circle Mapper site:

That's Toulouse (Blagnac) to Frankfurt and then to Delhi

Snow Day walk

Well done to everyone who's posted Snow Day posts! I went for a walk in the forest yesterday. I love how the world is transformed when it's snowed.

Disappeared

I have two cats, Tisha and Tziggy. Tziggy is just a kitten, a ginger and white male. Tziggy disappeared this Christmas. I looked for him everywhere, outside, in all the rooms of the house, in the basement. But for a whole day he wasn't there. 

Normally, except in the really cold weather, he stays outside. Normally he stands on his back legs and meows when he's hungry, which is about five times a day. So I wondered if he had gone off wandering, or been adopted by another family, or maybe even been on the road and got run over!

Every day I go down into the basement three or four times to get some logs up for the fire. So I was fairly sure that Tziggy wasn't hiding in a corner of the basement. But after about two days, I could smell a catty smell in the basement, so I wandered round looking. 

And there was Tziggy, lying in a comfortable place in a corner! He seemed quite happy there. But he must have been hungry. I carried him out and gave him some food straight away!