Top 7 Wildlife Safaris in India That Feel Like Africa
There's a prevailing assumption among American travelers that if you want a serious safari — golden light over tall grass, large predators moving through open savanna, the sound of the bush at night — you need to go to Kenya or Tanzania. Africa has done exceptional marketing for this idea, and it deserves its reputation. But it has also inadvertently overshadowed something that exists closer to the Tropic of Cancer and considerably cheaper per night: India's extraordinary, diverse, and often overlooked wildlife landscape. India has more tigers than any other country in the world. It has the only wild population of Asian lions on earth. It has one-horned rhinoceroses in numbers that would have seemed impossible 40 years ago. It has sloth bears, leopards, wild dogs, gaurs, and elephants — all in landscapes that range from Central India's sal forests to the Western Ghats rainforest to the Himalayan foothills terai. These seven destinations make the case. 1. Bandhavgarh Natio...