Duration: 15 Nights / 16 Days
Best season: November to June

Itineraries
 

Day 01: Arrival Mumbai
Meals: on own

Arrival in Mumbai before or after midnight. You will be met and transferred to a small hotel near the airport. Overnight hotel.

Day 02: Mumbai Ahmedabad Little Rann of Kutch
Meals: lunch, dinner

Transfer to the airport in the morning to fly to Ahmedabad at 0720. Arrive in Ahmedabad at 0820 hr. You will be met and transferred to Little Rann of Kutch (2 hours). Afternoon drive into the dry plains of Rann to see the onager (Asiatic Wild Ass). Overnight stay in Rann Riders.

The sanctuary is known for its herds of the handsome chestnut brown Asiatic wild ass, which is the last of India's wild horse family, does not survive elsewhere in Indian lowlands, but also supports a thriving population of gazelle, blue bull, wolf, and Indian foxes, jackal, jungle cat, hare and birds from the houbara bustard, spotted & Indian sandgrouse, francolin partridge, bustard quails, desert wheatear, desert , larks, steppe eagle, imperial eagle, short toed eagle, 5 of vulture, laggar falcon etc to flamingoes, pelicans, ducks, cranes and storks .

Day 03: Little Rann of Kutch
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner

Another day in the Little Rann of Kutch. Overnight stay in Rann Riders.

Day 04: Little Rann Of Kutch Jamnagar
Meals: breakfast

Morning drive into the dry plains of Rann to see the onager (Asiatic Wild Ass). After breakfast drive to Jamnagar (6 hr.), birding en route. Overnight stay at Hotel President.

Day 05: Jamnagar
Meals: on own

Visit Marine National Park for Crab Plover and other species. Overnight stay at Hotel President.

Day 06: Jamnagar Gir National Park
Meals: lunch and dinner After breakfast, drive to Gir National Park (4 hours). Afternoon safari into the park for lion tracking (time permitting!). Overnight stay in Gir Birding Lodge.

Gir National Park & Wildlife Sanctuary is a 1412 sq km tract of dry deciduous forests, acacia scrub, evergreen and semievergreen flora and grasslands, fed by rivers and streams. Among the many waterbodies in the reserve is the Kamleshwar Dam, known for its birdlife and for its large crocodile population.

This reserve is the last abode of the Asiatic lion and is also known for its leopard population. Other mammals of Gir are sambar (India’s largest deer), chital (spotted deer), chousingha (the world's only fourhorned antelope), nilgai (bluebull antelope), chinkara (Indian gazelle), wild boar, langur, jackal, jungle cat, rustyspotted cat, striped hyena and blacknaped hare.

Day 07 & 08: Gir National Park
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner

Morning & afternoon safari into the park for lion tracking and animal viewing. Overnight stay in Gir Birding Lodge.

Day 09: Gir National Park Bhavnagar
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Afternoon drive to Bhavnagar (6 hr.). Overnight stay in Narayani Heritage.

Day 10: Velavadar National Park Ahmedabad
Meals: on own

Morning birding in Velavadar Wildlife Sanctuary. Known for its large blackbuck antelope population, Velavadar is also one of the few places where the wolf is proliferating in India though they are rarely seen in the daylight. Jackal, jungle cat and hare are more easily seen and Indian fox on the periphery. Sirkeer malkoha, painted francolin, chestnut bellied and spotted sandgrouse, rufoustailed, crested and sykes' larks, redrumped swallows, desert and variable wheatears and other birds are seen and many raptors visit specially shorttoed snake eagle, imperial, steppe, tawny, greater and lesser spotted eagles, laggar falcon, hobby, common kestrel, red necked falcon, peregrine falcon, white eyed and long legged buzzard, black shouldered kite, shikra, Eurasian sparrow hawk and occasionally northern goshawk. Rarities include the Stoilczka's bush chat. In the evening, witness a massive roost of montagu, pallid and marsh harrier.

Drive in the afternoon to Ahmedabad (4 hours). Overnight stay in a hotel.

Day 11: Ahmedabad Nagpur Kanha National Park
Meals: dinner

Transfer to the airport in the morning to fly to Nagpur at 0900 hours, arriving at 1130 hours. You will be met & transferred to Kanha National Park (5½ hours). Krishna Jungle Resort.

Kanha National Park spreads over 1,945 sq. km of dense sal forests, interspersed with extensive meadows and trees and clumps of wild bamboo. This is where you can spot the tiger in all his magnificence or feast your eyes on the rare Barasingha (Swamp deer) amidst extensive grasslands. The park is also good for Indian bison. The park forms the core of the Kanha Tiger Reserve created in 1974, under Project Tiger. It is one of the most well maintained National Parks in Asia, and a major attraction for avid wildlife buffs all over the world. Two major rivers, Halon and Banjar, flow through the park. The sal forests of Kanha are interspersed with extensive meadows and trees and clumps of wild bamboo. This area known as Kipling Country is where the jungle book of Rudyard Kipling was conceived.

Day 12, 13, 14: Kanha National Park
Meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner

Morning & afternoon safari into the park for tiger tracking and animal viewing. Overnight stay in Krishna Jungle Resort.
 

Day 15: Kanha National Park Agra
Meals: breakfast

Morning drive in the park. You will be transferred to Jabalpur to connect overnight train to Agra at 1540 hours. Overnight in air conditioned sleeper class train.

Day 16: Agra Delhi
Meals: on own

Arrive in Agra at 0430 hours. Wash and change in a small hotel. Visit Taj Mahal (closed on every Friday) and Red Fort. Drive back to Delhi (4 hr) in the afternoon. Transfer to the airport to connect flight to return destination.
 

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