We spent two days at Ranthambore National Park in hopes of seeing at least one tiger. Ranthambore is one of some twenty reserves throughout India participating in Project Tiger, a national effort to increase the tiger population in India. When declared a national park in 1980, Ranthambore had only 15 tigers. The tiger population at the time of our visit was over 50. Unfortunately, our visit was an exercise in futility, as the gallery photo shows. The closest we came to a tiger was a paw print!