India Wildlife Tour Packages

India is home to some of the most extraordinary wildlife on the planet. More than 70 percent of the world's wild tigers live here. The only free-roaming Asiatic lions outside Africa survive in a single forest in Gujarat. The greater one-horned rhinoceros, once nearly extinct, now grazes in the tall grasslands of Assam in numbers that give real hope. Add to this the leopard, the sloth bear, the wild dog, the gaur, the snow leopard, and over a thousand species of birds, and you begin to understand why serious wildlife travellers keep coming back to India.

The India wildlife tour packages on this page are built around these animals and the parks and reserves where they live.

What these wildlife tours cover

India's wildlife is spread across very different landscapes, and each region offers a different kind of safari experience.

Central India is the core of tiger country. Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Pench, Tadoba, and Satpura are the parks that draw most international wildlife travellers, and for good reason. The forests here are classic sal and teak, the safari zones are well managed, and tiger sighting rates in the right season are among the highest anywhere in the wild. A focused Central India tiger safari runs between 6 and 15 days depending on how many parks you want to cover.

In the west, Gir National Park in Gujarat is the only place in the world where you can see the Asiatic lion in the wild. Ranthambore in Rajasthan is known for tigers that are unusually relaxed around safari vehicles, making it a particularly good park for photography. Both parks work well as part of a longer India circuit.

In the northeast, Kaziranga in Assam is where you go for the one-horned rhinoceros. Elephant-back safaris here give you a ground-level view of the floodplain grasslands that jeep safaris simply cannot. Manas, also in Assam, is wilder and less visited, with golden langur, wild buffalo, and tigers in a landscape that feels genuinely remote.

In the Himalayas, Hemis National Park in Ladakh is one of the few places in the world where a dedicated tracking expedition gives you a real chance of finding the snow leopard in winter. These tours are physical, patient, and unlike any other wildlife experience in India.

How these wildlife tours are structured

Every wildlife tour on this page is private. You travel with your own group, in your own vehicle, on dates that work for you. There are no shared coaches, no fixed departure dates, and no waiting for a group to assemble. The pace of each day is set around the safari schedule of the parks you visit, which is controlled by the forest department, not by us. Morning and evening safaris are the standard format across most Indian reserves, and the days in between are spent at your lodge recovering, reviewing sightings, and preparing for the next drive.

Accommodation on these tours ranges from well-run jungle lodges to more comfortable properties near park gates. Where luxury options exist, such as around Kanha, Bandhavgarh, and Ranthambore, they are genuinely good. Where the park is remote, the accommodation is simpler but always comfortable and appropriate for the location.

Local naturalists accompany you on every safari. These are not general tour guides. They are specialists who know the individual animals in their reserves, can read tracks and behaviour, and will help you understand what you are seeing rather than just pointing at it.

Choosing the right tour

The most common question we receive is which parks to combine in a single trip. The honest answer depends on your travel dates, the time you have, and what you most want to see.

October to March is the best period for most Central India parks, with peak sighting conditions between March and June before the parks close for monsoon. Gir is best visited between Feb and June. Kaziranga is open from November to April. Snow leopard tours in Ladakh run from December to March.

If you have 7 to 10 days, a focused single-park or two-park safari gives you enough time to settle in and increase your chances of meaningful sightings. If you have 12 to 20 days, a multi-park circuit covering two or three regions makes sense and gives you a much wider picture of India's wildlife.

Use the filters on this page to narrow by duration, region, starting city, or accommodation level. If you are unsure which itinerary fits your travel dates and interests, contact our team directly and we will help you work it out before you book anything.

About Alkof Holidays

Alkof Holidays is an inbound tour operator in India, planning and operating private wildlife tours for international travellers since 2011. All tours listed here are operated by our own team on the ground, with vehicles, naturalists, and lodge relationships that we have built and maintained over many years. We do not resell packages put together by others.
Every itinerary on this page can be adjusted in terms of parks visited, accommodation category, duration, and starting city. What you see here is a starting point, not a fixed product.