Best Time : Mid-September to Mid-March

Camel SafarisCamp on a solitary oasis, experience the dark starry nights and dance to musicians haunting music.

Camel safaris are the ideal way to spend time exploring rustic Rajasthan. A camel safari moves through the golden sands of the savage Thar desert passing through remote villages. 

The fortified cities of Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Bikaner are the best areas for camel safaris. The adventurous can take an entire trail combining Shekhawati, Pushkar and Bikaner.

Riding a camel can take getting used, similar to the first time trying to sit cross kneed. Camel rides are not like elephant rides where one sits comfortably and lets the animal do the rest. Be prepared for sore ankles and knees.

It will be better to try a one day safari before getting on to anything major. The camel cards are full equipped and visitors need not bother about comfort in the desert. One can ride or walk along leisurely with the safari and enjoy the desertscape.

Camel safaris can be tailored to suit the needs of every traveller from a few hours to a week. The safaris are also available in Gujarat.



Best Time : Mid-November to Mid-March

Tiger safaris offer a full experience of Indian wildlife through India's famous national parks like Bandhavgarh, Sariska, Corbett, Kanha and Ranthambhore.

The Periyar Tiger trail, is an exicting trekking programme through the deep forests in the Periyar river  valley, near Thekkady.

Led by a small team of experienced guides who have quite their former jobs as poachers, hike into cool, green forests and out again into vast, sunny meadows. 

One can see an astounding array of wildlife including elephants, sambar deer, birds like the brilliant blue Kingfisher and the great pied hornbill, and more than 100 species of butterflies.



Best Time : November to March

These are gaining in popularity and are offered in Rajasthan. Conditions are similar to camel safaris with grooms (and often the horse owner) accompanying the tour.

The trails chosen usually enable tourists to visit small villages, old forts and temples. Horse safaris move across a variety of terrain and vegetation including scrub covered arid plains to forested hills. Night stay are often in comfortable palaces, forts or havelis.

Ride through bred and half-bred, Indian bred Marwari and Kathiawari horses which are retired fro racing. The average distance covered daily is 20-35 kms.

Accommodation is in deluxe tents with separate baths and toilets. The saddlery is English.



Best Time : Mid-June to September

A superb way to explore the Buddhist mountain Kingdom of Ladakh and the remote and mysterious Nubra Valley. Wide open spaces, wind across your face, breathtaking bewitching scenery is what you are driving past different landscapes on mountain roads.

A journey on the Manali-Leh road, Manali-Rohtang Pass evokes great emotions as one drives past the bleak desertscape of Ladakh and the Zanskar Valley, through which passes the strategic Manali-Leh highway and the old Hindustan-Tibet road.

The Zanskar valley is a particularly challenging area where even a casual visit to a monastery or a remote village settlement involves a rewarding safari.

Driving past different landscapes, apple orchards, quaint villages and temples, the tribal districts where the landscape contrasts starkly with the greenery seen earlier, the Great Himalayan jeep safari is an unmatched experience.

Jeep safaris are also offered in the verdant hills of Arunachal Pradesh  and are popular across Rajasthan in winter.

A jeep through Saurashtra takes on through six different habitats : the desert wilderness of the Little Rann of Kutch, the marine ecosystems of the Gulf of Kutch, the wetlands of Khaijadiya bird sanctuary, the deciduous forests of Gir the tropical thorn scrub forest of Hingolgadh sanctuary and the Savannah-like grasslands of Velavadar National Park.

This little explored circuit offers glimpses of some of the rarest of wildlife species including the Asiatic lion and Indian wild ass which are not seen elsewhere in India.


Yak Safari is a safari with a difference. A Yak Safari is organised from Dzongri onwards on prior booking. 

A two-day yak safari can be done while trekking from Yuksam situated 5,800 feet above sea level to Dzongri at 13,800 feet. All along the route, one is amazed and spellbound by the spectacular mountain scenes.

Either take a yak or trek along the spine of the Singelila Range to the 4572-meter-high Dui-la, the pass of the Devil. The route with no habitation, follows the ancient grazing trail of the yak herdsmen. It is the domain of the yaks and their lonely herdsmen.

Lakes, glacial valleys, gurgling streams, cascades, chiselled snow peaks, meadows, forests, Rhododendrons, wildlife, birds and breathtaking views of 6,000 to 8,000 m high peaks of the Kunchenjunga, and the Mount Everest group.

This is an experience unique to Sikkim.



Best Time : November to March

Elephant SafarisRelive the good old days of the sahibs and sikaris by trying an elephant safari.

Elephant might seem like huge, intidimating beasts but they are quite gentle really and one can soon get used to the swaying motion of the elephant's gait.

Travel through the hills and wide river valleys of the Corbett National Park, named after the famous hunter and conservationalist, Jim Corbett. Wild boar and herbs of deer browse the vegetation in this scenic reserve, a convenient prey for the game park's leopards and tigers.

Elephant safaris are popular in the various wild life sanctuary scattered all over India and in the forest lands of Kerala. It is the best way to see wildlife from close quarters.

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