These questions apply not only to first-time tourists in wilderness areas, but could as easily apply to regular visitors.
Tourism is a business for tourism service providers.
But tourism in wilderness areas brings with it more responsibility than many other, conventional forms. The following piece deals with some of these questions. It was 4 in the morning when the shrill ring from the alarm clock splintered the quiet stillness in the forest rest house at Sarpduli. It shook me awake from a dream in which I had been walking the ridge of a great mountain, azure blue sky above, deep green valleys and milky river below. Behind me, a herd of grey elephants lumbered incongruously, inching their great weight slowly along the thin precipice.