Jeep Safari Events

Jeep and bus safaris and jungle treks in Amrabad Tiger Reserve (Nallamala hills), India's second-largest tiger reserve; entry via Farahabad gate; Chenchu tribal ecotourism.

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Amrabad Tiger Reserve, Nallamala, Nagarkurnool district, Telangana

Organiser: Telangana Forest Department

Forest Department–regulated open 4x4 gypsy safaris through Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in the Vindhya hills of Umaria district, Madhya Pradesh — among the highest tiger densities in India. Core tourism zones are Tala, Magadhi and Khitauli, with buffer zones alongside. Permits and vehicles are allotted online by the Forest Department; morning and evening shifts.

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Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Umaria district, Madhya Pradesh

Organiser: Madhya Pradesh Forest Department

Forest Department–regulated wildlife safaris in Bandipur Tiger Reserve — dry-deciduous forest on the Deccan plateau in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Safaris run in two modes: Forest Department mini-bus/van (canter) safaris and open jeep/gypsy safaris, with Jungle Lodges & Resorts (a Govt of Karnataka undertaking) as the licensed jeep operator. Morning and evening shifts. It sits on the Mysore–Ooty highway (NH-766), which has a night-traffic ban through the reserve.

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Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka

Organiser: Karnataka Forest Department

Bannerghatta Nature Camp is a tented camp run by Jungle Lodges & Resorts at the edge of Bannerghatta National Park, near Bengaluru. JLR provides the stay and tour packages; the safari itself — a bus/jeep ride through the lion, tiger and bear sections — is run by the Bannerghatta Biological Park (a Karnataka Forest Department / state zoo-authority attraction open to all visitors), not by JLR. You may see lion, tiger, bear, elephant, deer and varied birdlife within the managed safari sections, plus the zoo and butterfly park. This is a managed park experience, not a free-ranging wilderness safari.

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Bannerghatta, Bengaluru Urban district, Karnataka

Organiser: Karnataka Forest Department

Guided jeep safari (elephant rides subject to availability) in Betla National Park, part of Palamau Tiger Reserve (Jharkhand's only tiger reserve) — tigers, leopards, elephants, bison and chital.

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Betla, Latehar district (Palamau Tiger Reserve), Jharkhand

Organiser: Jharkhand Dept of Forest, Environment & Climate Change

River Tern Lodge sits on a hillock above the Bhadra reservoir backwaters near Lakkavalli, Chikmagalur, on the edge of Bhadra Tiger Reserve. The core experience is a forest jeep safari into the reserve plus a boat safari on the reservoir backwaters, guided by the operator and forest staff. You may see gaur, elephant, deer, the occasional leopard or tiger, and a rich birdlife including river terns, hornbills and grey junglefowl. Wildlife sightings are never guaranteed.

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Lakkavalli, Chikmagalur district, Karnataka

Organiser: Karnataka Forest Department

Blackbuck Resort is a Jungle Lodges & Resorts property near Vilaspur Lake and the Honnikeri Reserve Forest, about 18 km from Bidar town in north Karnataka. The experience is a guided grassland/jeep safari and nature walks to observe free-ranging blackbuck — a graceful spiral-horned antelope — along with grassland and wetland birdlife around the lake. Sightings are natural and not guaranteed.

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Vilaspur Lake / Honnikeri Reserve Forest, near Bidar, Bidar district, Karnataka

Organiser: Jungle Lodges & Resorts Ltd

Forest Department–regulated open gypsy safaris in Bor Tiger Reserve — a compact forest around the Bor dam in Wardha district near Nagpur, Maharashtra, and one of India's smallest tiger reserves. A quieter, close-to-Nagpur safari with tigers, leopards and good birdlife.

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Bor Tiger Reserve, Wardha district, Maharashtra

Organiser: Maharashtra Forest Department via Maharashtra Ecotourism

Forest Department–regulated open-gypsy lion safaris in Gir National Park & Wildlife Sanctuary (Sasan Gir, Gujarat) — the only place in the wild to see the Asiatic lion. The core experience is the ~3-hour open-jeep 'Gir Jungle Trail' through the forest; the fenced Devalia (Gir Interpretation Zone) offers a shorter gypsy/bus safari for quicker viewing. Permits are booked in advance on the Gujarat Forest Department's official online system. (Girnar, Ambardi and Velavadar are separate sanctuaries with their own safaris.)

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Sasan Gir, Junagadh/Gir Somnath district, Gujarat

Organiser: Gujarat Forest Department

Forest-department jeep safari (twice daily) in Gorumara National Park, Jalpaiguri, with watchtower visits — one-horned rhino, bison, elephants and rich birdlife.

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Gorumara National Park, Lataguri, Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal

Organiser: West Bengal Forest Department

Forest Department–regulated open gypsy (jeep) safaris in the Jhalana Leopard Conservation Reserve — a small dry-deciduous Aravalli forest (~20 sq km) inside Jaipur city, Rajasthan, and one of the best places in India to see wild leopards. Booked through the Rajasthan Forest Department's official online portal; morning and evening shifts.

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Jhalana Leopard Reserve, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Organiser: Rajasthan Forest Department

Forest Department–regulated open 4x4 gypsy/jeep safaris through the Corbett Tiger Reserve zones (Bijrani, Jhirna, Dhela, Durga Devi, Garjiya); the Dhikala zone is by shared Canter bus for day visits, or jeep only with an overnight forest-lodge stay. Permits and vehicles are allotted by the Forest Department; morning and evening slots.

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Corbett Tiger Reserve, Ramnagar (Nainital district), Uttarakhand

Organiser: Uttarakhand Forest Department

Twice-daily jungle jeep safari into Kali Tiger Reserve (former Dandeli-Anshi) from Dandeli, plus Kali-river white-water rafting and coracle rides run by Jungle Lodges & Resorts.

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Dandeli, Uttara Kannada district (Kali Tiger Reserve), Karnataka

Organiser: Karnataka Forest Department

Guided gypsy/jeep safari in Kanger Valley (Kanger Ghati) National Park, Bastar — tigers, leopards, sloth bears, deer — plus famous limestone caves (Kutumsar, Kailash, Dandak).

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Kanger Valley National Park, Jagdalpur, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh

Organiser: Chhattisgarh Forest Department

Forest Department–regulated open 4x4 gypsy safaris through Kanha Tiger Reserve — sal forests and the famous grassy maidans (meadows) of Mandla & Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. Core tourism zones are Kanha, Kisli, Mukki and Sarhi, with buffer zones alongside. Permits and vehicles are allotted online by the Forest Department; morning and evening shifts.

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Kanha Tiger Reserve, Mandla & Balaghat districts, Madhya Pradesh

Organiser: Madhya Pradesh Forest Department

Government-regulated jeep safaris in the UNESCO World Heritage Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve (home of the greater one-horned rhino) across the Western (Bagori), Central (Kohora), Eastern (Agaratoli) and Burapahar zones.

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Kaziranga National Park, Golaghat/Nagaon districts, Assam

Organiser: Assam Forest Department

Two-hour forest-department jeep safari through the tourism zone of Muthanga (Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary) with an expert guide and driver — elephants, gaur, deer and occasional tiger sightings.

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Muthanga, Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala

Organiser: Kerala Forest Department

Government gypsy/jeep safaris into Panna Tiger Reserve — a Ken-river tiger reserve famous for its successful tiger reintroduction — booked through the official MP Forest / MPOnline portal.

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Panna Tiger Reserve, Panna/Chhatarpur districts, Madhya Pradesh

Organiser: Madhya Pradesh Forest Department

Government gypsy/jeep safaris into the lesser-visited Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve in eastern MP, booked through the official MP Forest / MPOnline portal.

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Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve, Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh

Organiser: Madhya Pradesh Forest Department

Open-jeep wildlife safari inside Similipal Tiger Reserve (Mayurbhanj), with online ticketing; entry from points such as Pithabata/Jashipur, waterfalls and tiger/elephant habitat.

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Similipal Tiger Reserve, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha

Organiser: Odisha Forest, Environment & Climate Change Dept

Forest Department–regulated gypsy (jeep) safaris in Maharashtra's largest tiger reserve, across core and buffer gates (Moharli, Kolara, Navegaon and others), morning/evening and full-day; the only government-authorised gypsy booking is via the forest portal.

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Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Chandrapur district, Maharashtra

Organiser: Maharashtra Forest Department / TATR Conservation Foundation

Forest Department–regulated open gypsy safaris in the Umred-Pauni-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary — a forest and wildlife corridor near Nagpur across Nagpur and Bhandara districts, Maharashtra. Well known among wildlifers for tiger sightings (the famous tiger 'Jai' ranged here) and as a corridor connecting central-India tiger habitats. Gates include Karhandla and Pauni.

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Umred-Pauni-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagpur & Bhandara districts, Maharashtra

Organiser: Maharashtra Forest Department via Maharashtra Ecotourism

Forest-department jeep safaris (also canter and motorboat safari) in Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar's only tiger reserve, in the Himalayan Terai — Bengal tigers, leopards, 250+ bird species.

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Valmiki Nagar, West Champaran district, Bihar

Organiser: Bihar Forest Department

Open 4x4 jeep safaris across the salt flats, grassland 'bets' and wetlands of the Little Rann to see the endangered Indian Wild Ass (khur), plus nilgai, chinkara, foxes and flocks of flamingos and cranes.

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Little Rann of Kutch, Surendranagar district (entry via Dasada / Bajana), Gujarat

Organiser: Gujarat Forest Department