I'm sorry. Did I leave you hanging there? Completely unintentional, I am sure :-) We are now doing a more metropolitan circuit ( or more accurately triangle ) of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur that brings us back round to Delhi.
But back to sitting and listening to the sounds of the forest. Armed with our new understanding of the tiger-finding process we round a corner and come to a halt. An alarm call. Then suddenly alert deer. Then running deer. Then noise. The mahawats (the elephant guys) are tracking a tiger. We wait for confirmation that the tiger has stopped moving and is lying still. Then we, along with every other vehicle in the area, drive back to the check-in station to pay for a place in line for the Tiger Show - a ride on one of the elephants in order to go into the forest to see said tiger.
There must be 20 vehicles. Four to eight people per vehicle. We are not optimistic. The odds seem good that before we get our turn the tiger will become weary of sitting in the vortex of a whirlpool of circling, stomping elephants and will move on.
Miraculously, however, we find out that we are first in the second wave (though we have no idea how many vehicles constitute a wave). It may be that we, as international tourists, again receive special priority (pay more?) than the multitude of 'domestic tourists'. No matter the reason. We are just happy to have a chance of seeing the tiger and hurry back to the site with mounting anticipation.
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