Shivpuri Trip

After finishing Gwalior site seeing, we decided to go for a jungle safari in Shivpuri.It was once the summer capital of the Scindias.The impassable forests of this historic town were the hunting grounds of the Mughal emperors.Shivpuri is surrounded by deep woody forests that is a treasure house of rich flora and fauna.

We started our journey by taking a bus from Gwalior bus stand.It was a 2:30 hour journey covering a distance of 112 KM.The area around Gwalior to Shivpuri to quite dry with a varied landscape.On reaching Shivpuri at around noon we took our lunch(for which we had a long wait at the restaurant) and moved for Jungle Safari in Madhav National Park in a cab.

Madhav National Park was a hunting place of the Gwalior royal family and later British.It is spread over an area of 157 sq km.There is Sakhya Sagar boat club which provides boat ride.A lot of migratory bird make Vadiya Lake their home.We cruised through the park in a maruti van.We were lucky that we got to see different varities of Deers,Nilgai,Chital and migratory birds.We also saw a fox and black indian vulture very near to a recent leopard kill.The Vadiya lake is also home to some great Crocs.

From Madhav National Park we moved on to Chatri.Chatri's are the royal tomb of Scindia's surrounded by Mughal style garden and orchards.Chatri's depict the cenotaphs of late kings and queens of the Scindia clan.The monument of Madhav Rao Scindia and queen Maharani Sakhya are really attractive for their amusing Hindu and Islamic architectural styles.

After a long day of site seeing and jungle safari we took an evening bus back to Gwalior from the nearby busstand.Night was falling quickly with stars shining brightly in the clear sky.It took around 2:30 hours to reach Gwalior.We had dinner at one of the restaurants near the railway stations (though most of them were Veg Restaurants and we were looking for some non-veg stuff).Dinner was quick as everyone was hungry.We took an auto back to our hotel and there ends another eventful day of our tour.