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Day 1: Depart UK
Fly from Heathrow to Mumbai.Upon arrival you will be met and transferred to the
Ecotel Hotel for one night.
The Ecotel Hotel, Mumbai is a five star hotel within easy reach of the domestic
and international airports, and just 16 kilometres from Mumbai city centre. The
hotel offers everything you would expect of a hotel of this standard, including
a large range of well-appointed rooms and suites, an outdoor pool, fine
restaurants,
Day 2: Sasangir
This morning you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Diu.On
arrival you will be met and transferred to Sasangir, a drive of approximately
five hours, where you stay at Gir Birding Lodge. (B,L,D)
Gir Birding Lodge is a jungle safari Lodge in the famous
Gir National Park – the last remaining
bastion of the Asiatic Lion. The lodge has two rooms in the main building
(sharing a bath) and 4 cottages with attached bathrooms, featuring western
toilet fittings, hot-and-cold showers. Comfortably furnished, the rooms and
cottages are surrounded by groves of the famous Kesar Mango of the Gir hills and
other vegetation ensuring that a good number of birds come into the property
itself.
Days 3 & 4:
Morning and afternoon game drives in the park. (B,L,D)
Sasangir National Park (usually shortened to Gir) is a large park in the Gujarat
Peninsula of North-West India. The area is characterised by an arid rugged
terrain with low hills and mixed vegetation with beautiful stands of teak,
acacia and dhak trees interspersed with grassy plains. The main aim is to
preserve the last healthy population of the critically endangered Asiatic Lion -
a smaller more compact version of their African cousins with a distinctive
stomach fold. As well as approximately 300 Lion, other smaller members of the
cat family are well represented, namely the Jungle Cat, Desert Cat and the Rusty
Spotted Cat, and there is a healthy population of Leopard. Also to be found here
are Sambar Deer, Nilgai, Chinkara, Sambar, Black Buck, Four-Horned Antelope,
Wild Boar, Indian Flying Fox, Grey Musk Shrew, Indian Hare, Pale Hedgehog, Small
Indian Mongoose, Small Indian Civet, Indian Pangolin, Indian Porcupine, Ratel,
Indian Fox, and Jackal. For reptile lovers, the dam area contains crocodiles and
there are numerous non-venomous snakes such as the Indian Rock Python along with
four venomous varieties - Indian Cobra, Common Krait, Saw Scaled Viper and
Russells Viper.
For birders, an estimated 300 species are found in Gir, with notable species
including the Paradise Flycatcher, Black-Headed Cuckoo Shrike, Pied Woodpecker,
Bonelli’s Eagle, Crescent Serpent Eagle, Painted Sand Grouse, Bush Quail and
Grey Partridge.
The area was not always a park so today the animals and birds of Gir co-exist
with the remaining settlements of cattle herders, and it is not unusual to see
many head of livestock in the park.
Day 5: Pench
Today you will be transferred to Rajkot, for your flight back to Mumbai catch
the contecting flight for Nagpur, on arrival transfer to Pench Jungle Camp,Pench
Natioanl Park.
Day 6:Pench
Morning and afternoon game drives in the park. (B,L,D)
Pench National Park is also famous as Mowglis Land where wolf boy was found.
Also the home of Tigers. Leopard, Bear, Wolf, & more than 200 species of birds.
Days 7 Kanha National Park.
Early morning leave for kanha national park, check in at The Celebration Van
Vilas.
Celebration Van Vilas is spread into 56 Acres of Land adjoins to River Banjar.
Celebration Van Vilas offer Deluxe Rooms, Suite with Health Club, Kerali
Ayurvedic Message.
Day 8 & 9: Kanha Natioanal Park
Morning and afternoon game drives in the park. (B,L,D)
Kanha Tiger Reserve offers some of the finest Tiger viewing in India with the
2002 census counting 114 tigers. It is located in a remote part of central India
in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The grasslands and deciduous forests also
support 22 other mammal species such as Barasingha, Chital, Muntjac, Swamp,
Spotted and Barking Deer, Sambar, Common Langur and Rhesus Monkeys, Wild Boar,
Asiatic Jackal, three of India’s four lowland antelopes, Nilgai, Four-horned
Antelope (Chowsingha) and Blackbuck and occasionally Leopard, Gaur (Indian
Bison), Sloth Bear, Wolf and Dhole (Wild Dog). Kanha is noted for the last
remaining population of hard-ground Barasingha, which exceeds 350. Over 220
species of birds are found including Racket-Tailed Drongos, bee-eaters, Crested
Serpent and Hawk Eagles, shikras, flycatchers, Painted Partridge, Shaheen
Falcon, Golden Oriole and the omnipresent Red Jungle Fowl. Waterholes and high
plateaux such as Bahmni Dadar are excellent spots for bird watching, and quiet
locations to stop and immerse oneself in the natural peace of the jungle.
Wildlife viewing is by jeep and elephant back.
Jeep safaris and Elephant back safaris in Kanha.
Local guides accompany game drives in Kanha is provided upon entrance to the
park. Jeeps are free to follow their own route along tracks, using pugmarks and
alarm calls as indicators of nearby predators. Every morning, three ranges of
Elephants and their mahouts are also tracking such indicators for Tigers. If
they are successful, visitors may have the opportunity to view a Tiger from
Elephant back.
Game viewing in India.
Game viewing in India will include morning and evening game drives/rides into
the reserves to search for Tigers and other wildlife by open-topped jeep and
possibly Elephant (depending on the park). You will be accompanied by a driver
and/or guide/mahout, assigned by the National Park authorities. Normally jeeps
can carry up to six passengers. If you wish to reserve a private vehicle/guide
please enquire whether this is possible at the time of booking.
Day 10: Kanha/ Khajuraho
On this morning you will be transferred for Khajurahoo.
In Khajurahoo you will transferred to Hotel for over night stay & Sightseeing of
Western & Eastern Group Of Temples.
Day 11: Khajurahoo/ Kolkata
Full Day sightseeing in Kolkata.
Day 12: Kolkatta / Guawathi /Kaziranga
Leave Kolkatta to catch flight for Guawathi, On Arrival you be transferred to
Kaziranga (4hrs + Drive)
Stay at Wild Grass Resort.
Day 13 & 14 : Kaziranga
Morning and afternoon game drives in the park. (B,L,D)
Kaziranga National Park is located in North-East India in Assam, on the south
bank of the Brahmaputra River.
This UNESCO world-heritage site is famous for being the last stronghold of the
armoured one-horned Indian Rhinoceros. Kaziranga is also home to large herds of
Elephant (sometimes up to 200) and Wild Buffalo. The park also shelters other
threatened species such as Tiger and Sloth Bear and other animals such as
Leopard, Swamp Deer, Hog Deer, Barking Deer, Sambar, Pygmy Hog, Jungle Cat,
otter, Hog Badger, Chital, gibbons, Capped Langur, Rock Python, Monitor Lizard
and Wild Boar. The open country makes wildlife viewing at Kaziranga fairly easy
with most major species seen during a day or two’s safari.
Kaziranga is also a paradise for birders with large numbers of resident species
boosted considerably by visiting winter migrants. Regularly spotted species
include: Oriental Honey Buzzard, Black-Shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Brahminy
Kite, Pallas’s Fishing Eagle, White- Tailed Eagle, Grey-Headed Fishing Eagle and
Himalayan Griffon. Migratory species include: Greylag Geese, Bar-Headed Geese,
Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Red-Crested Pochard and Northern
Shoveller.
Day 15: Kaziranga / Guawathi / Delhi
This afternoon you will be transferred to Guwahati airport for your flight to
Delhi On arrival you will be met and transferred to the Hotel Park
Day 16: Delhi
Full Day visit of Delhi (Jama Masid, Chandni Chowk, President House)
Day 17: Homeward
This day you will catch the flight for London.
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