I’m visiting the Bandhavgarh National Park, in Madhya Pradesh, India.  The park is famous for its tigers.  There’s a good chance you’ll see one over the course of a multi-day visit, but of course there’s no guarantee.

My first full-day safari was a washout.  And it looked like my second morning was going to be a blank also.  But at the last minute my guide got an alert from a colleague on his cell phone and we whizzed over, to find a full-size adult male Bengal Tiger sitting calmly by the side of the road.

He was an extremely polite tiger.  He posed graciously for photos for a few minutes, showed off his tonsils in a wide yawn and then ambled off.  Hurrah!

Sadly he didn’t actually try to eat me, but you can’t have everything.