11 Apr 2025 - 15 Apr 2025 (5 days)
USD1,995 - 4 Spaces Available
Tour Leader: David Hoddinott
Tour price (Per person): USD1,995 * GBP1,577 * EUR1,902 * AUD3,083
Single Supplement: USD420 * GBP332 * EUR400 * AUD649
10 Apr 2026 - 14 Apr 2026 (5 days)
USD2,100 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Julian Parsons
Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*
Tour price (Per person): USD2,100 * GBP1,660 * EUR2,002 * AUD3,245
Our short extension to Ranthambhore National Park is primarily dedicated to finding the majestic Bengal Tiger but will also provide many more opportunities for several mammals and widespread subcontinent bird species.
Indian Peafowl; Painted Spurfowl; Indian Scops Owl; Yellow-footed Green Pigeon; Alexandrine & Plum-headed Parakeets; Stork-billed Kingfisher; White-bellied Drongo; Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher; Painted Sandgrouse; Yellow-wattled Lapwing; Indian Roller; Indian Stone-curlew; Brahminy Starling; Common Woodshrike; Ashy-crowned sparrow-Lark.
Bengal Tiger; Leopard; Sambar; Nilgai; Chital; Hog Deer; Sloth Bear (rare); Jungle Cat; Asian Elephant.
dry acacia woodlands, tropical dry forest, grassy meadowland
cool to mild
8 with 1 Rockjumper leader
undemanding
comfortable
easy
good to excellent
This was a great trip. A terrific itinerary and we saw lots of birds and we saw tigers at Ranthambhore and Corbett. Glen and [the local leader] were excellent guides—great spotting skills, and they made sure everyone saw the bird. The logistics worked very well because Glen and [the local leader] were a great team.
David Hoddinott was at his best even on new grounds full of lifers.
We had a wonderful trip with Rich Lindie and Stephan Lorenz, and we would certainly be happy to travel with either of them again. They were both excellent with the birds, had a great sense of humour, and were helpful and patient when individuals required extra assistance. In addition to the birding, we enjoyed a long list of mammals sighted in the various national parks. The accommodations and meals were also very good.
This trip was great! We were told the trip should generate about 250 bird species and our total was very close. Peter was excellent at finding birds, leading us and keeping a positive group atmosphere. The local guides also were competent and helpful. Accommodations are not an important aspect of a trip to me but the ones we stayed at were excellent, as were the meals. The trip was an excellent introduction to India for me tho I was happy to have it very much concentrate on birding.
This was the first group birding tour Ive ever taken (meaning, more than myself and either one or two other persons). Rockjumper and Nigel Redman made it a very pleasurable experience, with wonderful birds, beautiful landscapes, and good flexibility and adaptability to the various challenges and obstacles thrown our way on the trip. I heartily recommend both this tour and Nigel Redman as a tour leader! I would happily go on any tour for which Nigel was the leader; his knowledge of ornithology, history, and birding folklore is encycylopedic, and his easy humor and casual nature made for happy hours in our vehicles or over dinner tables (this, in contrast to the group next to us in some of the dining halls, where hardly a word was spoken by any tour member when the trip leader was going through the days list; that was a dictatorship; Nigels tour was a democracy in many ways.)
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