Cacada Kabini Safari

Coconut picking by our bungalow.

Beautiful flowers everywhere.

This is the path to our bungalow. We were in 007 so Elder Kasper had fun playing the part of 007 on this trip.

Our little bungalow at the resort. It was quite luxurious. We loved the pampering and the beautiful surroundings. This place is 2 hours south of Mysore which is in the southern tip of India.

OK....this picture is upside down. This is the view out our living room window. One morning I opened the curtains in time to see an elephant by our bungalow. He left the path right here and went through the bush over to where you see thesse men working. Because there have been 2 sitings of tigers in the boundries where the guest stay, these men are clearing the brush so there will be no chance of a tiger sneaking into camp and eating a guest!!!

Our boat safari.

We saw several crocodiles.

A beautiful sunset.

Our first Sunset at Cacada Kabini. It was beautiful. We did a boat safari the 1st day and 2 jeap safari's the 2nd day.

Our jean safari. The Wood's in the fron and the Nielson's in the middle. Elder & I were in the back.

Elephants were everywhere.

This one was not afraid of us and came after the jeep. Our driver let him get pretty close before taking off.

This was taken from the jeep

This one was taken from the water.

Black faced monkeys

Peacock was strutting today because it's mating season. Once we got down the road he spread his tail and stomped his feet. Pretty wonderful.

Beautiful spotted dear. There were also Barking dear and Samba.

This reminded me of a Bev Doolittle picture!!

Wild Dogs are unusual to see on the safari. Any noise and they run into the bush. We were fortunate to see this pack.

We heard the warning sound from the monkeys and the deer. We waited quietly for the preditor to come, but he never did. However the next day a tiger came to the resort and crossed the road. Our driver saw him but we didn't.

Another unusual site. 2 wild boars duke it out to see who gets the herd of lady boars that are waiting down at the lake. Once the contest was over, the loser walked quietly away while the winner strutted over to his harem. Our naturalist said he had never seen the wild boar fight in 10 years of guiding.

Banyon Tree.










We loved this safari and would go back in an instant. We went with Elder & Sister Wood and Elder & Sister Nielson, 2 couples serving in Vishakatpatnam. We enjoyed their company and wouldn't have changed a thing about the trip. We flew to Bangalore and stayed the night in a hotel. We had dinner and FHE with the Lintons and the Fairbanks serving in Bangalore along with the Mills who are serving in Sri Lanka and happened to be in town for a zone conference. The next morning we had our driver pick us up at the hotel at 6 a.m. He took us to a stone Hindu temple , a silkworm farm, showed us where and how they weaved it, and then also took us to a sandelwood working place. We arrived at Cacada Kabini at 2 p.m. in the afternoon, got settled in our bungalows, had lunch and were on our first safari by 3:30.

On the way home we toured the palace in Mysore.

That's the short version of our trip!!!

Beautiful views and country.