The Tigers Exclusive

Highlights

• Arrival in Delhi (Day 1) - Upon your arrival in Delhi airport/ railway station, you will be met by one of our IWS 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!
• Transfer to Ranthambore (Day 2) - Your IWS Guide will meet up with you early in the morning and you’ll kick off your adventure now. After having a relaxed morning and breakfast at your hotel, you will hit the highway. It is a long day of driving and you’ll only make it to your resort by late afternoon. There your IWS Guide will give you a formal welcome to the land to Tigers, Ranthambore, and brief about the park and what all you can expect to see over the next few days of back to back safaris. Post that, you have the evening to your leisure, where you can sit back, relax and enjoy the wilderness around you.
• Morning and evening safaris into the park (Day 3, 4, 5) - Over the next few days, you’ll be going for back-to-back morning and evening safaris into the various zones of the national park. The timing for the safari changes as per the season, and you’ll be instructed regarding the same the day before by your IWS Guide. During the safari, you will see some of the finest diversity and wildlife this part of the world has to offer, and of course, the tiger.
• Final safari at Ranthambore and overnight train to Jabalpur (Day 6) - Today, you’ll morning safari will be the last one at Ranthambore, and in the evening, you will be boarding an overnight train to Jabalpur, the closest railhead to Bandhavgarh, where you will be picked up by taxis which will accompany you for the rest of the road trip. Your IWS Guide will be with you 24x7 to coordinate everything and you need not worry about the logistics. Just sit back and enjoy the Indian rail experience!
• Arrival at Jabalpur and transfer to Bandhavgarh (Day 7) - 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 8, 9, 10) - 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 firest evening safari (Day 11) - 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 12, 13, 14) - 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.
• Transfer to Tadoba (Day 15) - After a relaxed morning, and a filling breakfast at your Kanha resort, you will hit the highway for the final instalment of long highway rides. From Kanha to Tadoba, you will be covering over 320 kilometres and cross over to a different Indian state. You will reach your resort by evening, check into your rooms, and have ample time to stretch out and relax. You will only have your first drive the next day. The evening is at your leisure.
• Morning and evening safaris into the park (Day 16, 17, 18) - Similar to the last few 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.
• Final morning safari and transfer to Delhi (Day 19) - 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.