A trained local naturalist guide is your single biggest asset on any India tiger safari. Good guides know individual tigers by name, understand their movement patterns, and can read the jungle like a book. They listen to alarm calls from deer and monkeys, read fresh pugmarks in the soil, and position the jeep at the right water point at the right t...
A trained local naturalist guide is your single biggest asset on any India tiger safari. Good guides know individual tigers by name, understand their movement patterns, and can read the jungle like a book. They listen to alarm calls from deer and monkeys, read fresh pugmarks in the soil, and position the jeep at the right water point at the right time. Many guides in top reserves have spent decades in the same forest and have an almost instinctive feel for where a tiger might be on any given morning. Tip your guide well. They earn it.