Big Five
Destination : Mumbai
- Gir National Park - Diu - Nagpur - Kanha National Park - Pench National
Park - Kolkata - Guwahati - Kaziranga National park.
Duration : 19 Days 18 Nights
DAY 01 ARRIVE MUMBAI
Arrive Mumbai met and transferred to your hotel
Over night stay
at the hotel
DAY 02 MUMBAI
- DIU - GIR NATIONAL PARK
Departure transfer to the airport to
connect flight to Diu (9W 3403 1045 hrs / 1145 hrs)
Arrive Diu at
1145 hrs met upon arrival and transferred to Gir National Park
Arrive Gir National Park and check in at your resort
DAYS 03 -04 GIR
NATIONAL PARK
Morning and afternoon game drives to the
national park for tiger tracking and animal watching
DAY 05 GIR NATIONAL
PARK - MUMBAI - NAGPUR
Departure transfer to the Diu
airport to connect flight to Mumbai (9W 3403 1215 hrs / 1500 hrs)
Arrive Mumbai and connect flight to Nagpur (IC 629 1930 hrs / 2045
hrs)
Arrive Nagpur and transfer to your hotel
Over night
stay at your hotel at Nagpur
DAY 06 NAGPUR -
KANHA NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast drive to Kanha (240
kms/ 6 hours)
Arrive Kanha and check in at your resort
Afternoon game drive to the national park for Tiger Tracking and
animal watch
Stay at your resort for four nights
DAY 07-DAY 09 KANHA
NATIONAL PARK
Morning and afternoon game drives to the
national park for tiger tracking and animal watching.
Kanha is
one of India's largest and most remote national parks, covering 1945
sq km of forest and lightly wooded grasslands. An extensive network of
rivers and streams supports it. The setting of Kiplings Jungle
Book , Kanha National Park has an excellent variety of wildlife
including Leopards, Chital, Sambar, three striped palm squirrel,
common langur, jackal, wild pig, chital or spotted Deer, Barasingha or
swamp Deer, (The park is the only habitat of the rare hardground
Barasingha), Blackbug. Indian Hare, Dhole or Indian wild dog, barking
deer, Indian Bison or Gaur, Indian Fox, sloth bear, striped hyena,
Jungle Cat, Panther, Mouse Deer, Chousingha or four horned antelope,
Nilgai or blue bull, Ratel, Indian Porcupine, wolf, Chinkara, Indian
Pangolin, the smooth Indian otter, small Indian Civet and, most
famously, the tiger. It's possible to make elephant-back excursions
into the park in the early morning and evening to see tigers. Although
wildlife can be seen throughout the season, sightings increase during
the hotter months of March and April, because the animals move out of
the tree cover in search of water. The park is closed from July to
October.
DAY 10 KANHA
NATIONAL PARK - PENCH NATIONAL PARK
Morning game drives to
the national park for tiger tracking and animal watchingDrive to Pench
National Park (215 kms / 05 hours)Arrive Pench National Park and check
in at your resort
Stay at Pench for 02 nights
DAY 11 PENCH
NATIONAL PARK
Morning and afternoon game drives to the
national park.
Pench National Park is a part of the Project Tiger
network of special reserves. Pench is one of the most accessible tiger
reserves in the country, just 90 kilometres (1 hour and 30 minutes)
north of Nagpur. The Reserve is located in the southern reaches of the
Satpura hill range in the Seoni and Chhindwara districts in the Madhya
Pradesh State of India. The terrain is undulating, with most of the
area covered by small hills, steeply sloping on the sides. The
description of its natural beauty, richness in flora and fauna has
appeared in numerous wildlife books dating back to the 17th century.
Books written in the 19th and early 20th century by famous naturalists
like Captain J. Forsyth and Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Book explicitly
present the detailed panorama of natures abundance in this tract. As
the prey concentration is high along the Pench river tigers usually
inhabit this belt. Leopards, though, generally operate in the
peripheral areas but are occasionally seen in the deep forests also.
Jungle cats are commonly seen. Leopard cats, small Indian civets and
palm civets are common but seen rarely. 
DAY 12 PENCH
NATIONAL PARK - NAGPUR - KOLKATA - GUWAHATI
Departure
transfer to the Nagpur airport to connect flight to Kolkata (CD 7271
0730 hrs / 0900 hrs) Operates only on Monday, Wednesday & Friday
Arrive Kolkata and connect flight to Guwahati (9W 615 1105 hrs /
1215 hrs)
Arrive Guwahati and drive to Kaziranga National Park
(04 hours)
Arrive Kaziranga National Park and check in at your
resort
Stay at Kaziranga for 04 nights at your resort
DAYS 13-15 KAZIRANGA
NATIONAL PARK
Morning and afternoon game drives to the
national park for birding and animal watch
Kaziranga National
Park, situated in the northeastern state of Assam, is one of the most
picturesque wildlife parks in India. The natural habitat of the
one-horned rhino, Kaziranga lies on the southern banks of the
Brahmaputra River, northeast of Assam's capital Guwahati. The
predominant vegetation is a mixture of tall grasslands and riverine
forests interspersed with open forests, interconnecting streams and
numerous small lakes or 'bheels'. There are many marshes,
interconnecting streams and ox-bow lakes, known locally as 'bheels' or
'bils'. To the south of the park lie the Mikir Hills, which rise to
over 1,000 metres elevation. The park may be explored by riding
elephant or 4-wheel drive motor vehicles. There are several
watchtowers. There are many places that can be visited while you are
staying at Kaziranga. The nearby Panbari Reserve Forest is the best
place to see the Hoolock Gibbon. The Kakochang waterfall is 13 kms
from Bokakhat. Not far from the park are the ruins of the ancient
Numaligarh. These ruins are of great archaeological importance. The
tea gardens of Hathkhuli, Methoni, Difalu, Behora Borchapori are also
other local attractions.
DAY 16 KAZIRANGA
NATIONAL PARK - GUWAHATI - KOLKATA
Morning game drive to
the National Park
Drive to Guwahati to connect flight to Kolkata
(9W 616 1600 hrs / 1710 hrs)
Arrive Kolkata at 1710 hrs met upon
arrival and transferred to the hotel
Over night stay at your
hotel
DAY 17 KOLKATA
Morning guided sightseeing tour of Kolkata
Kolkata is a city of
glaring contrasts: a curious blend of the old and the new, partly
feudal, partly born out of growing urbanization, partly un-definable.
It is a medley of the east and the west, a graft of a European city
imposed on the Asian scape that gives Calcutta its bewildering charm,
confusion and excitement. Being just about 300 years old, Calcutta
hardly has many great historical monuments. Perhaps, the oldest
remembered is the site where the Kalighat Temple now stands. Today
Calcutta is the largest city in India with a population over 10
million and boasts of India's first ever Metro rail system. It is a
city that shocks on first impression but eventually the visitor falls
in love with it. The sightseeing of the city includes a visit to the
Victoria Memorial, Calcutta's most imposing and monumental dream in
marble opened by the Prince of Wales in 1921 and often called the "Taj"
of the British Raj, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Indian Museum, the
largest in India, with one of the best collections of Indian art.
DAY 18 KOLKATA
Day at leisure
DAY 19 KOLKATA -
ONWARD DESTINATION
Departure transfer to the airport to
connect flight to onward destination
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