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Central India is chock full of wonderful game parks that have populations of tiger—the number one animal safari-goes to India to see. But there is so much other big game that is often overlooked and is, in fact, much rarer. One of those is the Asiatic wild dog or dhole. They are one of the rarest and hardest to find predators in Asia so I took it as a personal challenge to find this rare carnivore. With that challenge in mind I went to a specal wildlife reserve—Panna—the Land of the Dhole. Located in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India, Panna Tiger Reserve is just 15 miles from Khajuraho airport . The city of Khajuraho is a great day trip from Panna. This UNESCO World Heritage site is famous for elaborately carved temples which include work-a-day scenes to the erotic. The
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