Magnificent Madhya Pradesh

Highlights

• Arrival in Delhi (Day 1) - Upon your arrival in Delhi airport/ railway station, you will be met by one of our tour guides. He will take you to your hotel, and en route, he will explain to you in detail the plan. He will stay with you for the entire duration of the trip and he’ll make sure you have a hassle-free and smooth experience! The rest of the day will be at leisure, and you can recover from your journey and prepare for the travels ahead!
• Half-day Delhi exploration and overnight train to Jabalpur (Day 2) - Your IWS Guide will meet up with you early in the morning and you’ll kick off your adventure now. Delhi has 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and some amazing monuments and places of historic and religious significance. You’ll be taken around by your IWS Guide and you will be trying to cover all you could. You’ll eat some of the best food in this part of the world, and you’ll sense flavours we guarantee you would never have imagined existed. After a soul-filling day exploring the city, you will have an evening AC express train to Jabalpur. By 5, you will be at Nizamuddin Junction Railway Station in east Delhi, and from there you’ll depart on a 15 hour long journey. Dinner will be served on the train itself.
• Jabalpur to Bandhavgarh (Day 3) - You’ll reach Jabalpur today at around 8 in the morning. Jabalpur is a bustling city, one of the biggest of the state of Madhya Pradesh. Your IWS Guide will coordinate everything and you need not worry about anything. You’ll have breakfast in one of the oldest and most legendary coffee houses of India. Thereafter, you will head out on a 4 hour long drive to Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. Reaching Bandhavgarh by lunch time, you’ll check in to your resort, have lunch, and relax for the rest of the day. You can walk around the property with your IWS Guide and you can spot some beautiful birdlife of Bandhavgarh. From the next day you will be having your safaris into the park.
• Morning and evening safaris into the park (Day 4, 5, 6) - You will be having morning and evening safaris into the park area, into different zone each time. Your IWS Guide will be deciding the zones depending upon the best chances of sightings of the striped big cat. The timing and duration of the safaris vary depending upon the season and the time of sunrise and sunset, and your IWS Guide will communicate the same to you prior to your safaris. Your day would typically start from early morning safari, breakfast inside the park, get out before noon, freshen-up and relax in the day time, have lunch, head out to the evening safari, return back from safari post-sunset, then have the evening at leisure.
• Transfer to Kanha and evening safari (Day 7) - Today, you will check out early in the morning at dawn, and drive south to Kanha. You will have breakfast enroute, You will reach Kanha by noon, and check-in your resort, lay back and relax after your long drive. After lunch, you will head out to your first safari into the beautiful Kanha Tiger Reserve.You’ll return from the park post-sunset, and have the evening at your leisure.
• Morning and evening safaris into the park (Day 8, 9) - You’ll follow a similar drill as Bandhavgarh, early morning and evening safaris into the park. Your breakfast will be inside the park itself. Lunch and dinner will be in the resort. You will see rare and elusive wildlife such as barasingha, Indian muntjac (barking deer), gaur (Indian bison), hyena, jungle cat, langur monkey, leopard, Indian tree shrew, sloth bear, and obviously the royal Bengal tiger, and so much more.
• Morning safari and drive to Pench (Day 10) - Today will be your last game drive into Kanha, and post lunch, you will be moving out and driving west to Pench, your final destination for the trip. You will reach Pench after nightfall, and check into your resort, and have the rest of the evening at leisure. You safaris would start the next day onwards.
• Morning and evening safaris into the park (Day 11, 12) - Similar to the last parks, you will be going in for back to back morning and evening safaris into the reserve forest. Overnight stay at wildlife resort just outside the park boundaries.
• Morning safari and fly back to Delhi (Day 13) - After the last and final early morning safari of the trip into the park, you will have lunch and leave for Nagpur airport, which is 3 hours away by road. On reaching the airport, you will take the late evening flight to Delhi. On reaching the capital after almost half a month of extreme wilderness adventures and in the company of the national animal and national pride of India, you will be dropped off at your place of preference in the city by your IWS Guide, and he will bid you adieu after completing an epic jungle excursion you will remember for the rest of your life.