Delhi – Sawai Madhopur – Ranthambore – Jaipur – Agra – Umaria Bandhavgarh – Kanha – Pench – Nagpur – Delhi
Day 01: Arrive Delhi
Met on arrival and transferred to your hotel. Stay at your pre-booked hotel for two nights
Day 02: Delhi
Morning: Enjoy a sight-seeing of Old Delhi in the morning.
(Including the Red Fort, Jama Masjid and the bazaars of Chandni Chowk)
Enjoy a sight-seeing of New Delhi in the afternoon. (Including the Qutub Minar, Humayun’s tomb and Lutyen’s Buildings)
Day 03: Delhi – Sawai Madhopur – Ranthambore
Morning assisted transfer to the rail terminal to board your train to Sawai Madhopur. Delhi Sawai Madhopur – Golden Temple Mail – (second air-conditioned sleeper class) – 0715: 131
Met upon arrival in Sawai Madhopur and transferred to your hotel in Ranthambore.
Stay at your pre-booked hotel. In the afternoon enjoy a game drive.
Day 04: Ranthambhore
With an area of 400 sq. km encompassing rocky hill crests which Cescend 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, Ranthambore is a very special and unusual area where a natural presentments a historical past. Sambhar, cheetal, chinkara, nilgai and langoor. The elusive leopard and tigers are found in this reserve with tourists standing a very good chance of seeing tigers during the day. Dotted across the landscape are the crumbling ruins of its past glory, be it chhatris or cupolas, like palaces of old guard posts, all of which reinforce the magical and ethereal Quality of this great wilderness.
Enjoy a game drive early in the morning. Return to your lodge for breakfast. In the afternoon enjoy a game drive.
Day 05: Ranthambhore .
Enjoy a game drive early in the morning. Return to your lodge for breakfast. Visit the Ranthambhore Fort, and the Ranthambhore School of Art. In the afternoon enjoy a game drive.
Day 06: Ranthambore – Jaipur
Enjoy a game drive early In the morning. Return to your lodge for breakfast. Travel by car to Jaipur. Stay at your pre-booked hotel for two nights. (Standard Grade Royal Residence)
Day 07: Jaipur
Morning enjoy an excursion to Amber Fort which is ascended on elephant back. Enjoy a sightseeing of the city in the afternoon. (It includes Sawai Man Singh Museum, Jantar Mantar Observatory, Hawa Mahal and the colourful. bazaar of the Pink city)
Day 08: Jaipur – Agra
Travel by car to Agra (237 kilometres, approximately 5-6 hours of driving distance) visiting the Deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri enroute. Stay at hotel for one night.
Day 09: Agra – Umaria
Enjoy a sight-seeing of the city in the morning. (Including the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and the tomb of Itamud-ud-daula) Taj Mahal is closed on Fridays.
Afternoon transfer to Railway Station to connect Kalinga Utkal Express (second air-conditioned sleeper class) board the train at 1550 hrs to Umaria. Overnight in air-conditioned sleeper class train, arrive Umaria at 0616hrs.
Day 10: Umaria – Bandhavgarh National Park
Arrive Umaria at 0616 hours. You will be met upon arrival and transferred to Bandhavgarh (32 kilometres, approximately 1hour driving distance) Stay at your pre-booked hotel for three nights.
Afternoon enjoy a game drive in the National Park. The density of the tiger population at Bandhavgarh is relatively high. The possibility of spotting Sloth Bear, Wild Boar, Leopard and Tiger is very good. The park is also densely populated with animals like the Chital (Spotted Deer), Sambhar, Barking Deer, Nilgai (Blue Bull), Chowsingha (Four Horned Antelope) and is rich in bird life. The terrain is rocky, rising sharply from the swampy and densely forested valley. The finest of these hills is Bandhavgarh which is bound~1 by great cliffs and eroded rocks. The Bandhavgarh Fort, believed to be 2000 years old, stands at the highest point. There is a temple at the fort that can be visited by jeeps. Scattered throughout the park, particularly around the fort, are numerous caves containing shrines with ancient Sanskrit inscriptions. The ramparts of the fort provide a home for vultures, blue rock thrushes and crag martins.
Day 11: Bandhavgarh National Park
The Forest Department has devised an ingenuous system of tracking the tiger at this Park. Every day, early in the morning, elephants and their “Mahouts” (drivers) are sent out into the jungle, in search of the Tiger. Once it has been sighted, a radio message is flashed to the Forest Ranger, who in turn informs the visitors In their jeeps, who are then taken on elephant back, into the bush, to see the elusive Tiger.
Enjoy full day of jungle activities. (Including a game drive and an elephant safari)
Day 12: Bandhavgarh National Park
Morning and afternoon game drive to view the wildlife. Overnight at hotel.
Day 13: Bandhavgarh National Park – Kanha National Park.
Morning enjoy a game drive in the National Park. Return to your lodge for breakfast. Later travel bycar to Pench National Park ( 38O kilometres, approximately 7 hours driving time) Check into Pench Jungle Camp for three nights.
Day 14: Pench National Park
Pench, setting of Kiplings Jungle Book, it is a beautiful area of forest and lightly wooded grassland with many streams and Pench river. It is the home of a variety of animals Including tiger, panther, and many species of deer, wild boar, bison, wild dogs, a variety of monkeys and other animals besides some 250 species of birds. It is also part of Project Tiger, one of Indias most important and successful conservation efforts. Enjoy full day of jungle activities. (Including a game drive and an elephant safari).
Day 15: Pench National Park
Enjoy full day of jungle activities, including Boating in Pench river, walking safari, try your hand at Golf in the Camp premises.
(Including a game drive and an elephant safari) .
Day 16: Pench National Park – Nagpur – Delhi
Morning after breakfast travel by car to Nagpur (95 kilometres, approximately 2 hours driving distance) to board your flight to New Delhi.