Birds And Wildlife Of Rajasthan And Gujarat Tour

Meals: on own
Accommodation: Hotel Shanti Palace

Arrive Delhi airport. You will be met and transferred to the hotel.

Evening free for rest or visit the local market. You may ask us for tours (optional) covering various monument sites, museums, bird watching habitats, tourist market, food joints, theater, performance venue etc.

Overnight stay.

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation:

After breakfast check out proceed to Delhi Airport to connect flight for Jaisalmer. Reach Jaisalmer and transfer to hotel. Rest of the day bird watching at Jaisalmer. Overnight stay

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Paddav Luxury Camp

Two days full day bird watching . Overnight stay

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Siana Camp

From Jaisalmer, we head to Siana, a small village lying where the desert begins to merge into the rugged Aravalli Hills. Siana is surrounded by dry plains and rocky outcrops, as well as patches of scrub jungle. This mosaic of habitats supports a good diversity of birds. Siana is also home to a healthy population of leopards.

Overnight stay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Siana Camp

Another full day of birding in Siana.

Overnight stay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sunset Inn

After an early breakfast, we will check out and get ready for a long drive to Abu Road, where we will arrive in the late afternoon. We will spend the evening birding to look for targets. The most sought-after species here is the Green Avadavat, a munia whose range has been restricted to Mount Abu after the pet trade diminished its numbers.

Overnight stay

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Rann Riders

Morning drive to Little Rann of Kutch
Arrive Rann Riders for lunch
Afternoon jeep safari
Overnight stay

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in Kutch
Accommodation: Rann Riders

Morning and afternoon jeep safaris
Overnight stay at Rann Riders

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel President

After breakfast, depart for Jamnagar, six hours away. This is an interesting route passing agricultural fields and lakes. Birds of open-country like Roller and Black-shouldered Kite could be seen. Arrive at Hotel President in time for lunch. On this day, we will also try to get permits to enter the Marine National Park the next day. Evening visit to Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary, where there are fairly good chances of seeing Indian Skimmer. This sanctuary is a breeding area for many species of birds that do not nest elsewhere in peninsular India. Great-crested Grebe, Black-necked Stork, Caspian Tern and many other birds can be seen besides most of the species recorded in the Little Rann area. 

Overnight Stay

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner 
Accommodation: Gir Birding Lodge

Depart at dawn to Gir National Park (5-6 hours) and check-in at Gir Birding Lodge. You will be there in time to go for afternoon safari to look for Birds, Lions and Leopards. A tapestry of Dry Deciduous Forests, Acacia Scrub and Grassland, fed by Rivers and Reservoirs, Gir is the last abode of the Asiatic Lion and has a thriving population of Panther (Leopard), Sambar, Chital (Spotted Deer), Nilgai (Blue Bull Antelope) and Wild Boar. Gir is also one of the major habitats of Chousingha (the World's only Four-horned Antelope) and Chinkara (Indian Gazelle) that are hard to spot in the Teak Forests along the game drive trails. Among the many Birds of Gir, Changeable Hawk Eagle, Crested Serpent Eagle, Bonneli's Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Laggar Falcon, Shikra, Painted Sandgrouse, Quails, Black-hooded and Golden Oriels, Marshall's and Common Lora, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Tickell's Blue, Red-throated, Verditer and Asian Brown Flycatchers, Yellow-crowned, Brown-capped Pygmy, Black-rumped Flameback Woodpeckers, Green and Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters, Coppersmith Barbet, Common, Lesser Pied and White-throated Kingfisher, Blossom-headed Parakeet, Hoopoe, Black, Ashy and White-bellied Drongos, Rufous Treepie, Large Cuckoo Shrike, Small Minivet, Red-vented and White-eared Bulbul, Tawny-bellied, Yellow-eyed, Jungle and Large Grey Babblers, Grey-breasted, Ashy, Rufous-fronted, Plain, Jungle and Graceful Prinias, Zitting Cisticola, Clamorous Reed-warbler, Booted Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Lesser and Hume's Warbler, Orphean Warbler and Blyth's Reed Warbler, are among the many birds that could be seen here

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodation: Gir Birding Lodge

We will spend today to visit the national park in the morning and afternoon to look for more Wildlife and Birds.
Overnight stay 

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel Shanti Palace

After breakfast check out from lodge and proceed to Rajkot Airport to connect flight to Delhi. Reach Delhi and transfer to hotel. Overnight stay

Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: None

After breakfast, transfer to Delhi airport to connect flight back to home Tour Ends.