Tiger Safari & Birding

Day 1

Arrive Delhi Check in Hotel. You are free till 1 P.M. next day, to enable you to sample some of Delhi 's avian and historical sights, or to just relax and recover after your flight. Our Tour escort will help you & accompany you, typical birds of the city include Black Kite, Laughing and Spotted Doves, Ring-necked Parakeet, Little Swifts, Little Green Bee-eater, Black Drongo and a variety of shrikes, mynas, bulbuls and babblers. The pretty little Five-striped Palm Squirrel may be seen everywhere. Overnight hotel.

Day 2

Delhi. Full day sight seeing. Overnight hotel.

Day 3

New Delhi-Ranthambhor. You will be picked up from your hotel to connect morning train to Ranthambhor National Park . Arrive at 1300 hours. You will be met and transferred to the wildlife resort. Afternoon drive to the park in open canter (truck) for tiger-tracking. Overnight in a Jungle Lodge.

Day 4 & 5

Visit Ranthambhor National Park to see tiger. Morning and afternoon visits to the park for nature watch and tiger tracking in open-top trucks and jeeps. Overnight in a Jungle Lodge.

Day 6

Reach Ranthambhor Tiger Resevre - Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary. Morning visit to the park for nature watch and tiger tracking in open-top truck / jeep. Post lunch, drive to Keoladeo Ghana National Park (i.e. Bharatpur; 5 hr.) Arrive in the evening. Overnight in the hotel.

Day 7

Go Birding at Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary near Agra (room only). Morning & evening inside the bird sanctuary with your own cycle rickshaw and a driver cum guide. Overnight in a hotel.

Day 8

Agra-Kanha National Park (room only). Morning guided tour of Taj Mahal (Friday closed) and Red Fort. Travel over night A/C sleeper train to Jabalpur in late afternoon.

Day 9

You reach early morning Jabalpur.Transfer to Hotel Krishna for freshen up & breakfast. After breakfast you leave for Kanha National Park (3 hrs. Drive) & check in at The Krishna Jungle Resort. Take the evening park round.

Day 10

Morning & evening game safari.

Day 11

Kanha-Bandhavgarh National Park. Morning visit to the park. Drive to Bandhavgarh National Park after breakfast (5 hr). Arrive Bandhavgarh in the evening. Overnight in a Bandhavgarh wildlife resort stay.

Day 12 & 13

Bandhavgarh National Park. Morning and evening jungle visits for tiger tracking, nature watch or birding in jeeps. Overnight at a wildlife resort.

Day 14

Bandhavgarh National Park-Delhi. Morning visit to the park in a jeep. Afternoon drive (time permitting). Drive to Umaria (1-hr.) in the evening to connect overnight air-conditioned sleeper class train to Delhi.

Day 15

Delhi-Onward Destination (room only). Arrive Delhi by noon . You will be met and transferred to airport for your onward journey.