Its been nearly 2 years that I am in Bangalore. During this time I have been to many places in Bangalore but could not go to a major tourist attraction of Bangalore, Bannerghatta National Park (BNP), situated 22 km south of Bangalore. Last Saturday, I decided to go to BNP at least once. I called up my brother and cousin (Yeah, if you have your elder brother with you in outing you save a lot of money :)). Fortunately, both of them agreed. So it was decided that sunday we would go to BNP.
10:00 am, I reached my brother's place, had my breakfast, packed up some snacks stuff and finally at 11:00 am, we all were all set to leave for BNP. We caught a bus from Dairy Circle. It took us one and half hour to reach to BNP. Being exhausted because of long Bus journey (Yeah, I would call that as journey though in Bangalore being so far). First thing we did after reaching there was, ate we had brought from home (So whatever snack we had planned for full day was over in first break) . My brother got a safari tickets for us, Rs. 160.00/- per head. It looked like fairly high price for a Government park but fair if you see it as full day time pass. Initially i though, there will be less crowd as who takes risk to go so far out of the city. But i was surely wrong. The first thing i saw as i entered was, there was long queue, might be 100 odd people. (Yeah ! I hate queues, but once you have given 160 bucks no matter how long the queue is :)).
So we got in a queue. There was a gate in front of the queue, people said the gate opens as the bus comes and then the queue moves ahead by 15-20 people. For next 30 min not a single time the gate opened (Donno if the buses got punctured). Finally the gate opened, I could see 2 buses had come out. Smile was back on face (Yeah, finally after 30 min. we were moving our asses from bench). As we were moving ahead, I heard the gatekeeper was shouting 3 members ... 3 members. For few seconds I could not understand, why the fellow was shouting when so many people were in a queue. I got it. The bus was full and it could accommodate only 3 members. The people near the gate were in big groups, so they were not ready to go in. There were some couples but the girl could not take risk of jumping over the bars which channelize the queue. So we three got a chance. We jumped over the bars and reached the gates before any other 3 member group pitched in. We all were set for a wild life safari.
I had never been to such wild life safari. I was really excited about it. The bus started, and the guy in front started giving his commentary about animals and BNP in Kannada. So obviously it was useless for me. But as and when any animal was visible the driver used to stop the bus for some time and let everyone have good view of that animal. I think those guys had different section for all the animals (So that animals don't eat each other). One by one yak, deer, antelope, bear, lion, tigers passed and our safari was over. There wasn't anything wild I could see in those animals (Yeah, they all were calm, taking rest, relaxing as if telling us, you all are fools :)). Though short (just 45min), having not seen these animals in my life except in a picture I enjoyed it. The best part was, as the guy in front used to shout animal animal ... everyone would look here and there and whichever side the animal was all the people would just gather in half 
the part of the bus. It was fun while people were falling, shouting for view.
Safari was over, the next destination was Zoo. After a light snack, We all headed towards zoo. Animals which were just names in a bio book were right in front of me. Peacock, different kinds of pigeons, monkeys, parrots, pythons (I cant even see them on TV, I hate them but today they were just in front of me and they were really scary), King cobra, zebra (Didn't know this animal is so big), crocodiles, Hippos (they are really big), ducks, swans, different kinds of snacks, elephants and lot of others whose names also i don't remember. Having a round of a zoo for next 3 hrs, we were completely exhausted. Finally, we sat down at some place and had some light snack (Yeah we would have had 4-5 rounds of snack, its best time pass according to me).
When we were just about to leave, it was white peacock who stole the show. With his colored plumage fanned, it was out of the world sight. Right next to it was a golden colored bird, which was cool. These out of the bio book animals were cool to see.
At 5:30 pm, after finishing almost everything in the park, we were back in our bus. It was a wonderful experience. (Don't know why i did not come to this place in last 2 years). Lots of wild animals, it was surely a trip worth. While coming back just a though struck me, Why do people kill these animals? they are just so innocent. When I saw them in park, they were just so calm, composed and cute. Well, answer is surely Money. But as you have charges on killing a man shouldn't there be same charges for killing an animal. I had even a bigger question, why they are caged even? obvious answer would be, they are well protected and they are dangerous. So many questions but I was just not in a position after so much exhaustion to ponder about them. But then I remembered one which I had read long back.
Once a baby camel asked his mother, “Why do camels have humps?” Mother said “Well son, we are desert animals, we need the humps to store water and we are known to survive without water in deserts”. Baby said, “Okay, then why are our legs long and our feet rounded?” Mother said, “Son, obviously they are meant for walking in the desert! they make our life easy” Baby said, “Okay, then why are our eyelashes long?”. Mother proudly said, “Son, those long thick eyelashes are your protective cover. They help to protect your eyes from the desert sand and wind”. Baby after thinking said, “I see. So the hump is to store water when we are in the desert, the legs are for walking through the desert and these eye lashes protect my eyes from the desert then what the hell are we doing here in the Zoo!?”
Really, a man can do anything to keep himself happy. If man doesn't like the job he just changes it. Just imagine about these animals, far from there abode they have been kept in this zoo and why?, because man wants to entertain himself. whats the use of those feathers if birds are not allowed to fly. whats use of tiger's power, if it is if its not allowed a prey. The lion, the king of the jungle is so helpless in a zoo that even a kid can hit him. Just all their powers, skills, abilities are useless in this zoo. Ultimately who wants be slaved. Man can give a lot of reason like these wild animals are dangerous, they can kill people .. blah blah blah .. but you can not deny the fact that freedom is what is snatched from them. what an irony, the wildest and the most dangerous animal was missing from the zoo .. Man !!!
10:00 am, I reached my brother's place, had my breakfast, packed up some snacks stuff and finally at 11:00 am, we all were all set to leave for BNP. We caught a bus from Dairy Circle. It took us one and half hour to reach to BNP. Being exhausted because of long Bus journey (Yeah, I would call that as journey though in Bangalore being so far). First thing we did after reaching there was, ate we had brought from home (So whatever snack we had planned for full day was over in first break) . My brother got a safari tickets for us, Rs. 160.00/- per head. It looked like fairly high price for a Government park but fair if you see it as full day time pass. Initially i though, there will be less crowd as who takes risk to go so far out of the city. But i was surely wrong. The first thing i saw as i entered was, there was long queue, might be 100 odd people. (Yeah ! I hate queues, but once you have given 160 bucks no matter how long the queue is :)).
So we got in a queue. There was a gate in front of the queue, people said the gate opens as the bus comes and then the queue moves ahead by 15-20 people. For next 30 min not a single time the gate opened (Donno if the buses got punctured). Finally the gate opened, I could see 2 buses had come out. Smile was back on face (Yeah, finally after 30 min. we were moving our asses from bench). As we were moving ahead, I heard the gatekeeper was shouting 3 members ... 3 members. For few seconds I could not understand, why the fellow was shouting when so many people were in a queue. I got it. The bus was full and it could accommodate only 3 members. The people near the gate were in big groups, so they were not ready to go in. There were some couples but the girl could not take risk of jumping over the bars which channelize the queue. So we three got a chance. We jumped over the bars and reached the gates before any other 3 member group pitched in. We all were set for a wild life safari.
I had never been to such wild life safari. I was really excited about it. The bus started, and the guy in front started giving his commentary about animals and BNP in Kannada. So obviously it was useless for me. But as and when any animal was visible the driver used to stop the bus for some time and let everyone have good view of that animal. I think those guys had different section for all the animals (So that animals don't eat each other). One by one yak, deer, antelope, bear, lion, tigers passed and our safari was over. There wasn't anything wild I could see in those animals (Yeah, they all were calm, taking rest, relaxing as if telling us, you all are fools :)). Though short (just 45min), having not seen these animals in my life except in a picture I enjoyed it. The best part was, as the guy in front used to shout animal animal ... everyone would look here and there and whichever side the animal was all the people would just gather in half 
the part of the bus. It was fun while people were falling, shouting for view.Safari was over, the next destination was Zoo. After a light snack, We all headed towards zoo. Animals which were just names in a bio book were right in front of me. Peacock, different kinds of pigeons, monkeys, parrots, pythons (I cant even see them on TV, I hate them but today they were just in front of me and they were really scary), King cobra, zebra (Didn't know this animal is so big), crocodiles, Hippos (they are really big), ducks, swans, different kinds of snacks, elephants and lot of others whose names also i don't remember. Having a round of a zoo for next 3 hrs, we were completely exhausted. Finally, we sat down at some place and had some light snack (Yeah we would have had 4-5 rounds of snack, its best time pass according to me).
When we were just about to leave, it was white peacock who stole the show. With his colored plumage fanned, it was out of the world sight. Right next to it was a golden colored bird, which was cool. These out of the bio book animals were cool to see.At 5:30 pm, after finishing almost everything in the park, we were back in our bus. It was a wonderful experience. (Don't know why i did not come to this place in last 2 years). Lots of wild animals, it was surely a trip worth. While coming back just a though struck me, Why do people kill these animals? they are just so innocent. When I saw them in park, they were just so calm, composed and cute. Well, answer is surely Money. But as you have charges on killing a man shouldn't there be same charges for killing an animal. I had even a bigger question, why they are caged even? obvious answer would be, they are well protected and they are dangerous. So many questions but I was just not in a position after so much exhaustion to ponder about them. But then I remembered one which I had read long back.
Once a baby camel asked his mother, “Why do camels have humps?” Mother said “Well son, we are desert animals, we need the humps to store water and we are known to survive without water in deserts”. Baby said, “Okay, then why are our legs long and our feet rounded?” Mother said, “Son, obviously they are meant for walking in the desert! they make our life easy” Baby said, “Okay, then why are our eyelashes long?”. Mother proudly said, “Son, those long thick eyelashes are your protective cover. They help to protect your eyes from the desert sand and wind”. Baby after thinking said, “I see. So the hump is to store water when we are in the desert, the legs are for walking through the desert and these eye lashes protect my eyes from the desert then what the hell are we doing here in the Zoo!?”
Really, a man can do anything to keep himself happy. If man doesn't like the job he just changes it. Just imagine about these animals, far from there abode they have been kept in this zoo and why?, because man wants to entertain himself. whats the use of those feathers if birds are not allowed to fly. whats use of tiger's power, if it is if its not allowed a prey. The lion, the king of the jungle is so helpless in a zoo that even a kid can hit him. Just all their powers, skills, abilities are useless in this zoo. Ultimately who wants be slaved. Man can give a lot of reason like these wild animals are dangerous, they can kill people .. blah blah blah .. but you can not deny the fact that freedom is what is snatched from them. what an irony, the wildest and the most dangerous animal was missing from the zoo .. Man !!!
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