Dehradun, Feb. 23 -- My first Leopard sighting in the wild in Kenya.

All Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian - 14

These days almost everyone in our Doon Valley is either talking or thinking about leopards, so I thought I should look back at all the places where I had my own leopard encounters in the wild. It just so happens that most of these places were in Africa, from the Masai Mara in Kenya to the Serengeti in Tanzania, Kidepo and Queen Elizabeth National Parks in Uganda, and South Luangwa in Zambia, besides a few other on this primordial continent.

The leopard is a very elusive cat and essentially nocturnal in nature, but we have spotted it many times on our safaris, so in a way we can say that we are lucky with leopard...