TIGER SAFARI INDIA TOUR
Duration: 17 Nights / 18 Days
Places to Visit: Delhi - Sawai Madhopur - Ranthambhore
- Jaipur - Bharatpur - Agra - Khajuraho -Varanasi - Katni - Bandhavgarh - Umaria
- Delhi
Day 1: Arrive Delhi
Met on arrival and transferred to your hotel. Stay at hotel Hans Plaza for two
nights (First class modern hotel).
Day 2: Delhi
Enjoy a sight-seeing of Old Delhi in the morning.
(Including the Red Fort, Jama Masjid and the bazaars of Chandni Chowk)
Enjoy a sight-seeing of New Delhi in the afternoon.
(Including the Qutub Minar, Humayun's tomb and Lutyen's buildings)
Day 3: Delhi - Sawai Madhopur - Ranthambore
Morning assisted transfer to the rail terminal to board your train to Sawai
Madhopur.
Delhi - Sawai Madhopur - Golden Temple Mail - (second air-conditioned sleeper
class) - 0715:131
Met upon arrival in Sawai Madhopur and transferred to your hotel in Ranthambore
(12 kilometres, approximately 30 minutes driving distance)
Stay at Tiger Den for 03 nights. Wildlife Resort
In the afternoon enjoy a game drive.
Day 4: Ranthambhore
With an area of 400 sq. km encompassing rocky hill crests which descend to open
valleys between the Aravalli and Vindhya ranges, dotted with water pools and
fruit trees, this park gets its name from the thousand year old fortress, which
looms above the forest. Well known for the diurnal activity of tigers, Ranthambore
is a very special and unusual area where a natural presentments a historical
past. Sambhar, cheetal, chinkara, nilgai and langoor. The elusive leopard and
tigers are found in this reserve with tourists standing a very good chance of
seeing tigers during the day. Dotted across the landscape are the crumbling
ruins of its past glory, be it chhatris or cupolas, like palaces of old guard
posts, all of which reinforce the magical and ethereal quality of this great
wilderness.
Lunch at the lodge. After lunch, proceed on a game drive into the National Park
Enjoy a game drive early in the morning. Return to your lodge for breakfast.
In the afternoon enjoy a game drive.
Day 5: Ranthambhore
Enjoy a game drive early in the morning. Return to your lodge for breakfast.
Visit the Ranthambhore Fort, and the Ranthambhore School of Art. In the afternoon
enjoy a game drive.
Day 6: Ranthambore - Jaipur
Enjoy a game drive early in the morning. Return to your lodge for breakfast.
Travel by car to Jaipur (180 kilometres, approximately 3 ½ hours driving
distance)
Stay at the Samode Haveli for two nights. (Standard Grade Royal Residence)
Day 7: Jaipur
Morning enjoy an excursion to Amber Fort which is ascended on elephant back.
Enjoy a sightseeing of the city in the afternoon.
(It includes Sawai Man Singh Museum, Jantar Mantar - Observatory, Hawa Mahal
and the colourful bazaar of the Pink city)
Day 8: Jaipur - Agra
Travel by car to Agra (237 kilometres, approximately 5-6 hours of driving distance)
visiting the Deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri enroute. Stay at hotel for one
night.
Day 9: Agra - Umaria 
Enjoy a sight-seeing of the city in the morning.
(Including the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and the tomb of Itamud-ud-daula) Taj Mahal
is closed on Fridays
Later in the afternoon assisted transfer to the Agra rail terminal in time to
connect your overnight train to Umaria
Agra - Umaria - Kalinga Utkal Express (second air-conditioned sleeper class)
board the train at 1550hrs, overnight in air-conditioned sleeper class train,
arrive Umaria at 0616hrs
Day 10: Umaria - Bandhavgarh National Park
Arrive Umaria at 0616 hours
You will be met upon arrival and transferred to Bandhavgarh (32 kilometres,
approximately 1hour driving distance)
Stay at Tiger Den Resort for three nights. Wildlife resort.
Afternoon enjoy a game drive in the National Park. The density of the tiger
population at Bandhavgarh is relatively high. The possibility of spotting Sloth
Bear, Wild Boar, Leopard and Tiger is very good. The park is also densely populated
with animals like the Chital (Spotted Deer), Sambhar, Barking Deer, Nilgai (Blue
Bull),
Chowsingha
(Four Horned Antelope) and is rich in bird life. The terrain is rocky, rising
sharply from the swampy and densely forested valley. The finest of these hills
is Bandhavgarh which is bounded by great cliffs and eroded rocks. The Bandhavgarh
Fort, believed to be 2000 years old, stands at the highest point. There is a
temple at the fort that can be visited by jeeps. Scattered throughout the park,
particularly around the fort, are numerous caves containing shrines with ancient
Sanskrit inscriptions. The ramparts of the fort provide a home for vultures,
blue rock thrushes and crag martins.
Day 11: Bandhavgarh National Park
The Forest Department has devised an ingenuous system of tracking the tiger
at this Park. Every day, early in the morning, elephants and their "Mahouts"
(drivers) are sent out into the jungle, in search of the Tiger. Once it has
been sighted, a radio message is flashed to the Forest Ranger, who in turn informs
the visitors in their jeeps, who are then taken on elephant-back, into the bush,
to see the elusive Tiger.
Enjoy full day of jungle activities.
(Including a game drive and an elephant safari)
Day 12: Bandhavgarh National Park
Enjoy full day of jungle activities.
(Including a game drive and an elephant safari)
Day 13: Bandhavgarh National Park
Morning enjoy a game drive in the Bandhavgarh National Park.
Return to your lodge for breakfast.
Later travel by car to Pench National Park (380 kilometres, approximately 7
hours driving time)
Check into Pench Jungle Camp for three nights.
Day 14: Pench National Park
Pench, setting of Kiplings Jungle Book, it is a beautiful area of forest and
lightly wooded grassland with many streams and Pench river. It is the home of
a variety of animals including tiger, panther, and many species of deer, wild
boar, bison, wild dogs, a variety of monkeys and other animals besides some
250 species of birds. It is also part of Project Tiger, one of Indias most important
and successful conservation efforts. Enjoy full day of jungle activities. (Including
a game drive and an elephant safari)
Day 15: Pench National Park
Enjoy full day of jungle activities, including Boating in Pench river, walking
safari, try your hand at Golf in The Park premises.
(Including a game drive and an elephant safari)
Day 16: Pench National Park - Nagpur - Delhi
Morning after breakfast travel by car to Nagpur (95 kilometres, approximately
2 hours driving distance) to board your flight to New Delhi.
Met upon arrival and transferred to your hotel Ashok Country Resort for the
day.
