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Jim Corbetts Tiger Reserve and National Park (India)

Description: This park is the oldest national park in India named after the naturalist who played a key role in making it a ... more

Jim Corbetts Tiger Reserve and National Park (India) ... protected place for the Bengal tiger and the gharial crocodile.

Newest Review: ... elephant called Hathi, (suprise, suprise as Hathi is the local name for elephant!) she was very funny, if she liked you she would amble up and drape her trunk across your shoulders and hug you, I got so many hugs the bearers started to call me Hathi Mammy. (It was a compliment. Honestly!) Hathi was supposed to be available to give the guests rides at 11 o'clock every morning but......and it ... more

... was a very big 'but', if she didn't feel like getting out of the river where her mahout bathed her every morning at 10 o'clock, she didn't get out! She would throw rocks to splash whoever was trying to persuade her and nothing would shift her if she di...more

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Jim Corbetts Tiger Reserve and National Park (India): Corbetts Tiger reserve. (Woman left in jungle.) (1315 words)
by - written on 01/09/08 (Very useful, 119 readings)
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As part of a tour around Northern India and Nepal my husband and I were fortunate to visit Corbetts National Park. It is a huge game reserve situated in what was Uttar Pradesh but now renamed Uttaranchal. We stayed in a lodge type hotel just outside of the small town of Ramnagar. Ramnagar is the closest Railway station to the reserve and a very interesting place to visit on it's own. Corbetts is named for Jim Corbett who was a big game hunter but saw the light and decided that the animals were better preserved on the hoof or paw, rather than preserved by taxidermists. The park is situated on the river Ramganga and covers about 1,300 ... Read the complete review

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