This tour takes you to the best birding sites of West India (such as Kheechan, Desert National Park, Abu Road, Little Rann of Kutch, Great Rann of Kutch, Coastal areas of Jamnagar) & Gir Lion Sanctuary (the only place for Asiatic Lions in India) along with the visit to Blackbuck Sanctuary in Velavadar. You will come across a selection of birds such as Yellow-eyed Stock Doves, Stoliczka’s Bushchat and a fine assortment of cranes, raptors, larks, wheatears and buntings. Desert National Park has scenery more reminiscent of the African savannah and desert scenes that you would expect in the Sahara – and we will search for some of the region’s rarest and most sought-after species. Imagine watching a huge Great Indian Bustard walking sedately across the sandy desert in front of you, or thousands of Demoiselle Cranes feeding just a few metres away, or flocks of sandgrouse uttering their evocative calls as they wheel across a spectacular desert sunset.
The Birding Tour of Western India offers diverse Indian Landscapes – from the extremely arid area west of the Aravalli hill range, comprising both the salt desert of Gujarat and the sand desert of Rajasthan.
We are all well and safe back home after a wonderful trip to Western India. We recorded 257 bird species and numerous mammals including Wild Ass, Asiatic Lion and Striped Hyena. Altogether it surely was one of my best Indian trips!
The success is for a great deal thanks to Deepak who is undeniably the best guide that you have provided on four trips! His friendliness and excellent communication instinct, good sense of humor, willingness to help, stable temper and very good knowledge of the sites and wildlife surely contributed to the trip being such a gorgeous treat! I will definitely require to have Deepak again for another trip to India. I will write again soon about this matter.
Thank you very much. Let’s keep in touch about future trips!
