KUMAON and GARHWAL

Kumaon Exploration specialises in arranging itineraries to the Himalayan region of Kumaon and Garhwal, in Uttaranchal State, North India.

This region is still a relatively little visited and unspoiled part of the Himalaya. We can offer you a fascinating insight into its amazing wildlife and scenery, hospitable people, and traditional way of life.

Extending from the Ganges in the west to Nepal in the east, and from the terai plains in the south to the high Himalaya in the north, Kumaon and Garhwal have an immensely diverse terrain and scenery, including dense jungles inhabited by tigers and elephants, oak and rhododendron forest, deep river gorges and magnificent snow peaks and glaciers.

CORBETT TIGER RESERVE

The magnificent hill forests of Corbett Tiger Reserve are only 25km from Camp Corbett, and the Bijrani area of the reserve can easily be reached on a day excursion.

If you wish to visit the main part of the reserve, an overnight stay is required. We offer itineraries based on one or more nights accommodation in a colonial-era Forest Rest House. The Reserve was the first Project Tiger sanctuary in India, and the first National Park. The scenery here is truly wild and breathtaking: majestic sal forest; wide expanses of elephant grass, and the gorges of the Ramganga river, with a backdrop of mountain ridges. Wildlife includes tiger, leopard, elephant, sloth bear, mugger and gharial crocodile, paine marten, otter, sambhar, chithal, ghoral, wild boar, python, and 550 species of birds.

Tiger tracking from elephant-back is the most atmospheric and exciting way of viewing the wildlife, in the early morning and late afternoon. The rest of the day can be spent on jeep drives or viewing game from watchtowers. The Reserve is open from mid-November to mid-June.

 

With our comfortable jungle lodges, personal service, local knowledge and attention to detail, we hope you will join us in the Himalayan foothills soon!