It is a hot evening here in Ranthambhore tonight the hotel we were to stay in had a power cut so we where upgraded to another hotel called Dev Vilas. It is amazing, it was a hunting lodge at the turn of last century and the British use to come and hunt tigers here. Tomorrow we are going out to see if we can see on of the remaining 36 tigers left in this area and hunt them with our cameras. We went to a bird park today on our way here and it was great to see the birds and animals including a big monator lizzard, a jackle and some funny looking birds called painted storks. I also saw soft shelled turtles and catfish as big as a man.
The road to Ranthambhore was fine for about half the trip and then it turned into one big pot hole that lasted for 50kms. It was worst than the roadworks on the new road to Motueka, it was amazing because there was still heaps of cars, trucks, motor bike, push bikes, cows, goats,and lots of people using the road and we were all bumping along together.

Yesterday we went to a place called the baby taj and it was beautiful as it looked like a huge jellery box but it was tonb of a queen and her husband. We also went to Agar Fort which is so big and red and has 7 palaces within its walls and a garrison of the Indian army who still live there.

I am going for a swim tomorrow in the hotel pool and I am looking forward to that. I also saw the first star tonight so that was exciting as the sky has been gray and smoky all the time we have been in India.