Kanha NP Holidays

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Rajpath

Day 1: Delhi

Welcome to India and the start of your holiday! Arrive Delhi, included transfer to hotel. Overnight - New Delhi

India Gate

Day 2: Delhi - Ranthambhore NP

With the morning at leisure, enjoy a later train journey to Ranthambhore by air conditioned chair car. Ranthambhore National Park is one of the prime examples of Project Tiger’s conservation efforts in Rajasthan. Sprawling across an area of some 1334 sq. kms, the park boasts an impressive 10th century fort. In addition to the Bengal tiger, Ranthambhore is home to wild boar, nilgai, sambar deer and a variety of birds. Tiger spottings are more common in the morning or late afternoon.

Park transport

Day 3: Ranthambhore NP

Enjoy a morning and evening game drive in the national park in a shared jeep or canter.

Sambar

Day 4: Ranthambhore NP

Enjoy a morning and evening game drive in the national park in a shared jeep or canter.

Keeping watch

Day 5: Ranthambhore NP - Bharatpur

After a morning game drive you’ll board the train (1st class air conditioned sleeper) for Bharatpur - home to Keoladeo Ghana National Park. Rated as one of the finest bird reserves in the world, over 350 species of birds have been identified at the park. A prime time to visit is from October to late February when myriad migratory birds such as the rare Siberian crane can be viewed. During your visit, consider walking or hiring a bicycle rickshaw.

Gaur

Day 6: Bharatpur - Agra

En route to Umaria, a stop is made at Agra. Once the Mughal capital of India, Agra is home to the legendary Taj Mahal. A visit is made to the Taj, where you’ll see first-hand, the efforts Emperor Shah Jahan went to in constructing a solid white marble mausoleum for his beloved wife, Mumtaz. From Agra, you’ll later board the train to Umaria. (1st class air conditioned sleeper)

Jackals in the sun

Day 7: Agra - Bandhavgarh NP

An early morning arrival at Umaria, then the short drive to Bandhavgarh where you’ll enjoy the first of your game drives. Bandhavgarh is set amidst the Vindhyan ranges. Claiming to have the highest density population of Bengal tiger in India, coupled with a population of leopard, nilgai, jackal, wild boar, sloth bear, gaur, sambar deer and colourful bird life, game drives are often peppered with sightings.

Tiger taking a rest

Day 8: Bandhavgarh NP

Enjoy a morning and evening game drive in the national park in a shared jeep or canter.

Tiger up close

Day 9: Bandhavgarh NP

Enjoy a morning and evening game drive in the national park in a shared jeep or canter

Antelope

Day 10: Bandhavgarh NP - Kanha NP

After a morning game drive, we journey to Kanha via a fossil park. Kanha is one of India’s largest parks, covering 1945 sq. km of forest and lightly wooded grassland. This is the land that Kipling wrote so vividly about in his literary classic ‘Jungle Book’. Kanha National Park has a tremendous variety of wildlife - including the Bengal tiger, leopard, sambar, chital, blackbuck, gaur, swamp deer and jackal.

Sitting on a tree

Day 11: Kanha NP

Enjoy a morning and evening game drive in the national park in a shared jeep or canter.

Young deer

Day 12: Kanha NP

Enjoy a morning and evening game drive in the national park in a shared jeep or canter

Up close & personal to a tiger

Day 13: Kanha NP - Delhi

This morning we enjoy a further game drive, before the drive to Jabalpur to board the Gondwana express to Delhi. (1st class air conditioned sleeper)

Nrashtrapati Bhawan

Day 14: Delhi

Early arrival at Delhi and you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Later, enjoy a sightseeing tour of Old Delhi taking in the impressive Red Fort, Jama Masjid mosque and the colourful Chandni Chowk bazaar. This afternoon, enjoy a tour of New Delhi. Open and relatively streamlined New Delhi was built as the imperial capital of India by the British. Highlights include the majestic India Gate, Rajpath and bustling Connaught Place and the Qutab Minor.

Delhi fruit stall

Day 15: Delhi

Hotel check-out and included onward transfer to airport.

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last updated - 25 May 2013 12:20 PM