Forts & Tigers Safari Tour in India
18 nights / 19 days
Destination Covered
- Day 1 : Arrive New Delhi (by flight)
- Day 2 : New Delhi – Agra (by surface – 220 Kms, 4-hour drive)
- Day 3 : Agra – Jaipur (by road, 235kms, 5-hour drive)
- Day 4 : Jaipur
- Day 5 : Jaipur – Ranthambhore (by road 180 kms, 3 hrs. drive)
- Day 6 - 8 : In Ranthambhore
- Day 9 : Ranthambhore – New Delhi (by road 400 kms /8-9-hrs drive)
- Day 10 : New Delhi – Raipur – Kanha (Flight + 210 kms/4-hour drive)
- Day 11 - 13 : In Kanha National Park
- Day 14 : Kanha – Bandhavgarh (by surface 280 kms/6-hour drive)
- Day 15 - 17 : In Bandhavgarh National Park
- Day 18 : Bandhavgarh – Jabalpur – New Delhi (200 kms/4-hour drive + Flight)
- Day 19 : New Delhi Fly back home
Detailed Itinerary : Forts & Tigers Safari Tour in India
Day 1 : Arrive New Delhi (by flight)
On arrival at the New Delhi airport, you will be met by our representative. He will transfer you to your hotel and assist you in check-in at the hotel. He will also handover and explain all the travel-related documents. Overnight stay is at the hotel.
Day 2 : New Delhi – Agra (by surface – 220 Kms, 4-hour drive)
After relaxed breakfast drive to Agra, 220kms, 4-hour drive. On arrival check into the hotel. Evening visit Mehtab Bagh to see Taj Mahal at Sunset. Mehtab Bagh is a charbagh complex in Agra, North India. It lies north of the Taj Mahal complex and the Agra Fort on the opposite side of the Yamuna River, in the flood plains. The garden complex, square in shape, measures about 300 by 300 metres and is perfectly aligned with the Taj Mahal on the opposite bank.
Overnight stay at the hotel in Agra.
Day 3 : Agra – Jaipur (by road, 235kms, 5-hour drive)
Sunrise proceed to visit the famous white marble mausoleum, The Taj Mahal, which was built in the middle of the 17th century by the Moghul emperor Shah Jehan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Completed in 1652, skilled craftsmen from Persia, Turkey, France and Italy and some 20,000 labourers worked for 17 years to build this edifice.
After relaxed breakfast proceed to visit the red sandstone AGRA FORT which stands like a crescent on the banks of Yamuna River enclosed by forbidding 20-meter high walls, with a 12- meter moat between them. Three successive Mughal emperors – Akbar, Jehangir and Shah Jehan – helped create this massive structure which contains Hindu and Muslim architecture. [The Taj is closed on Friday]. Check out from the hotel.
Later drive to Jaipur 235 kms/5-hour drive. On arrival check into the hotel. Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 4 : Jaipur
This morning you will drive 11 km in the outskirts of the city stop at Jal Mahal to visit Amber Fort, the ancient capital of the State until 1728. Visit the Temple of Kali, the Hall of Victory or Jai Mahal.
Later visit the Observatory, the Palace of Winds and the City Palace and Museum. The museum has an interesting textile section, which contains dresses and costumes of the former Maharajas and Maharanis of Jaipur. Jaipur is well known for its beautiful carpets, enamelled ornaments, precious and semi-precious stones, brass ornaments and many other arts and crafts. Spend time in crowded lanes & by lanes of pink city, haggling and souvenir-hunting in the evening. Return to the hotel for overnight stay.
Day 5 : Jaipur – Ranthambhore (by road 180 kms, 3 hrs. drive)
Breakfast, and depart for Ranthambhore, 180kms, 3-hour drive. Check in at the resort, lunch and depart for afternoon jeep safari to the national park. Overnight stay at the lodge.
Day 6 : In Ranthambhore
Morning & afternoon jeep safari to the national park. This one park which will give you all the angles, lighting, backdrop, and many frames of different kinds.
Ranthambhore is also rich in birdlife with around 300 species of birds. In fact for a keen bird watcher, Ranthambhore and the surrounding area is a paradise. Some interesting resident species of birds are large Cormorant, Painted Spurfowl, Sarus Crane, Bronzed winged Jacana, Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Nightjar, Painted Sandgrouse, Great horned owl and many more regular winter migrants which come from their nesting ground north of Himalayas to Ranthambhore and surrounding areas. Meals and overnight stay at the lodge.
Day 7 : In Ranthambhore
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at the Resort. Morning and afternoon Jeep safari to the national park. Overnight at the Resort.
Day 8 : In Ranthambhore
Morning & afternoon jeep safaris in the park. Breakfast, lunch and dinner at the resort.
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, Ranthambhore is a very special and unusual area where a natural present meets a historical past. Sambar, Cheetal, chinkara, nilgai and languor. The elusive leopard and tigers are found in this reserve with tourists standing a very good chance of seeing tigers during the safaris. Overnight at the lodge.
Day 9 : Ranthambhore – New Delhi (by road 400 kms /8-9-hrs drive)
Morning after breakfast drive to New Delhi for 400 Kms, 8-9-hour drive. Arrive New Delhi and transfer to hotel. Overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 10 : New Delhi – Raipur – Kanha (Flight + 210 kms/4-hour drive)
Early breakfast, and transfer to the airport in the morning to board a flight at 0800-hour to arrive Raipur at 0940hrs. Met at the airport and drive to Kanha National Park 210 km / 4-hour drive. On arrival check into the lodge. After lunch proceed for afternoon jeep safari. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
Day 11 : In Kanha National Park
Wake up at 0500hrs, tea coffee with biscuits, and proceed for the morning jeep safari to the National park.
Kanha’s sal and bamboo forests, rolling grasslands and meandering streams stretch over 940 sq km in dramatic natural splendor which forms the core of the Kanha Tiger Reserve created in 1974 under Project Tiger. The park is the only habitat of the rare hardground Barasingha (Cervus Duvaceli Branderi).
This is the original Kipling country of which he wrote so vividly in his Jungle Book. Packed breakfast which comes from the Lodge is served at a designated spot and spread on the bonnet of the Safari vehicle. Enjoy your breakfast in the wilderness of Kanha.
Continue your search for the elusive Tiger if you have not yet seen the same, and soak in the fresh, and energizing environment. Return from Safari around 1130hrs. Freshen up, and lunch is served.
Depart for afternoon jeep safari Kanha National Park. Return at 6 pm from safari. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 12 : In Kanha National Park
Wake up, and get ready for another day of adventure in the National park. The forests of the Banjar valley and Halon valley, respectively forming Kanha’s western and eastern halves. By a special statute in 1955, Kanha National Park came into being. Since then, a string of stringent conservation programmes have been launched, for the overall protection of the park’s fauna and flora. Kanha boasts of about 38 species of mammals. Some of the inhabitants of this park are the gaur, the largest of the world’s cattle; the sambar, the largest Indian deer; and the chausingha, the only four-horned antelope in the world. Other frequent visitors include the Nilgai antelope, the sloth bear, the dhole, or Indian wild dog, and an occasional Leopard. Some 300 species of birds inhabit the park, that includes the storks, egrets, black ibis, raptors, owls, and the red-wattled lapwings.
Depart for afternoon jeep safari Kanha National Park. Return at 6pm from safari. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
Day 13 : In Kanha National Park
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at the Lodge. Morning and afternoon Jeep safari to the national park.
Overnight at the lodge.
Day 14 : Kanha – Bandhavgarh (by surface 280 kms/6-hour drive)
After breakfast and depart for Bandhavgarh, 280kms, 6-hour drive. On arrival check into the Lodge. Lunch and proceed for afternoon jeep safari to Bandhavgarh national park. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
Day 15 : In Bandhavgarh National Park
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner at the lodge. Morning jeep tiger safari to Bandhavgarh national park. Afternoon visit a local village as afternoon safari is closed on Wednesday. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Bandhavgarh:
The national park is mainly known for the density of its tiger population. This is the place where famous White Tigers of Rewa were discovered. The other wild attractions in the park include Leopards, Blue Bulls, Indian Gaur (Bison) Chausingha (Four Horned Antelopes), Spotted Deers, Sambar Deer, Wild Boar, Sloth Bears Fox, Jackals, Wild Dogs, etc. There are at least 22 mammal species and about 250 bird species in the Park. The other animals found in Bandhavgarh are Ratel, Porcupine, Small Indian Civet, Palm Squirrel, Lesser Bandicoot rat, the Jungle Cat, and the shy Hyenas. The reptile population in the park includes Cobras, Kraits, Vipers, Ratsnakes, Pythons, Monitor Lizards and turtles. The two-primate species – the rhesus macaque and the Hanuman langur – inhabit Bandhavgarh. Overnight at the lodge.
Day 16 : In Bandhavgarh National Park
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at the lodge. Morning and afternoon jeep tiger safari to Bandhavgarh national park.
Bandhavgarh has been a center of human activity and settlement for over 2000 years, and there are references to it in the ancient books, the Narad-Panch Ratra and the Shiva Purana. The oldest sign of habitation in the park are caves dug into the sandstone to the north of the fort. Several contain Brahmi inscriptions dating from the 1st century B.C. Various dynasties have ruled the fort, for example, the Maghas from the 1st century A.D., the Vakatakas from the 3rd century A.D., From that time onwards Bandhavgarh was ruled by a succession of dynasties including the Chandela Kings Bandhavgarh became more and more deserted until forest overran the area band it became the royal hunting reserve. This helped to preserve the forest and its wildlife, although the Maharajas made full use of their rights. At independence Bandhavgarh remained the private property of the Maharaja until he gave it to the state for the formation of the National Park in 1968. After the park was created poaching and hunting was brought under control and the number of animals rose dramatically. The Tigers in particular prospered and the 1986 extension provided much needed forest to accommodate them. Overnight at the lodge.
Day 17 : In Bandhavgarh National Park
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner at the Lodge. Morning and afternoon Jeep safari to the national park. Overnight at the Lodge.
Day 18 : Bandhavgarh – Jabalpur – New Delhi (200 kms/4-hour drive + Flight)
Morning jeep safari to the national park. After lunch drive to Jabalpur airport 200 kms /4hrs drive to board a flight to New Delhi at 1630 hrs. Arrive New Delhi at 1840 hrs. and transfer to hotel. Overnight at New Delhi hotel.
Day 19 : New Delhi Fly back home
After breakfast free for leisure activities and later transfer to international airport to board a flight back home.
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