Duration: 6 Nights / 7 Days
Best season: Mid November to Mid June

Itineraries

Day 01: Delhi Corbett National Parks
Meals: dinner in Dhikala

Drive to Corbett NP from Delhi (6 hours). Drive onward for Dhangarhi gate for entry to Dhikala tourism zone. A great opportunity for viewing wildlife, especially the tiger in its natural habitat. Cross the river at Gethia Rao Bridge for the Kanda Range, where Jim Corbett shot the famous Kanda maneater. Arrive at the main tourist complex, Dhikala. Dinner and overnight stay. Please note that the accommodation in Dhikala is not luxurious.

Day 02: Corbett National Park
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner in Dhikala

Another day in Dhikala. Full day birding and wildlife viewing. Dinner and overnight stay. Please note that the accommodation in Dhikala is not luxurious.

Day 03: Corbett National Park Pangot (Nainital region)
Meals: breakfast in Dhikala & dinner in Pangot

If you have not done an elephant ride the previous afternoon, you will be taken on an elephant in the morning through the open chaurs (grasslands) and dense forests by an unconventional route. This is the best mode of transport for wildlife viewing. Return for breakfast and then again drive to Tiger Camp for lunch (a safari in itself). Transfer to Pangot in the afternoon visiting Corbett Falls en route for birding. Stopping en route at Dabka causeway to look for ashy crowned sparrow lark. After birding at Corbett Falls continue to Pangot. Arrive for dinner. Overnight stay in a cottage at Jungle Lore Birding Lodge. One can see crested woodpeckers such as greater yellow nape, scaly breasted, speckled piculet etc. Large flocks of slatyheaded parakeets, numerous spotted and oriental turtle doves, grey bushchat, russet sparrow. Cuckoo: Indian, oriental, large hawk and Eurasian. Large billed crow, grey treepie, black headed jay, maroon oriole, large cuckoo shrike, tits such as rufousnaped, black throated & yellow browed and smaller numbers of blacklored and green backed. White-tailed nuthatches, chestnut bellied nuthatches and bartailed tree creeper.

Day 04: Pangot (Nainital region)
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner

Another day of birding at Pangot village, Baggar and Gughu Khan. These walks can be very rewarding. Overnight stay at the lodge. One can see crested serpent eagle, mountain hawk eagle, Woodpeckers such as brown fronted, stripe breasted, rufousbellied etc. Thrushes such as dark throated, mistle etc. Striated prinia can be see in the terraced fields. Warblers such as tickell's leaf warbler, greenish, golden spectacled, grey hooded. Flycatchers such as Asian brown, rustytailed, ultramarine, verditer, tickell's blue, rufousbellied Niltave etc., orange flanked bush robin, blue capped redstart. Laughing thrushes such as white throated, striated & streaked, chestnut crowned etc. Look for accentor, upland pipit, blue winged minla, whiskered yuhina etc. Overnight stay in Jungle Lore Birding Lodge.

Day 05: Pangot Corbett National Park
Meals: breakfast in Pangot, lunch & dinner in Tiger Camp

Drive back to Corbett NP stopping en route for birding in Mongoli Valley. Afternoon birding in Kumeria. Overnight in a comfortable cottage at Tiger Camp.

Day 06: Corbett National Park
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner

Morning safari in Bijrani Range Forest. Stay inside the jungle for an afternoon safari as well. Tiger Camp.

Day 07: Corbett National Park Delhi
Meals: breakfast in Tiger Camp

Morning safari to Sitabani / Jhirna Forest Division (optional). Drive to Delhi after lunch. Arrive in Delhi in the evening.

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