Our driver Bafati carefully follows this big male tiger. It's early in the morning in December and freezing cold.

We came across this tiger on it's morning prowl...We both stopped and looked, the tiger then slowly moved closer to the open (!) jeep. Bafati got nervous, "may be man-eater, has no fear of man..." and reversed the jeep. The tiger came closer and without taking any notice passed our jeep at a few meters distance. After this we knew that it wasn't interested in eating us and we slowly followed the king of the jungle.

Spotting a tiger up close from an open jeep is the ultimate safari experience...

There's almost never an incident in the interaction between tiger and jeep (and the people in it). Although Bafati once had a tiger with it's front-paws standing in the jeep.(The tourists crawled under the benches) Anyway no injuries then as well.

We use the bushhawk shoulder-stock or a beanbag while shooting with the big lenses from the jeep.

(pictures taken with Canon Ftb and  28mm 2.8 lens and Canon T90 with 300mm 2.8 FLUORIte lens, Kanha NP, India 1998)