Wild trails of Gujarat
Duration: 06 Days / 05 Nights
Destination: Ahmedabad-Sayla-Dasada-Gondal-Gir-Ahmedabad
Day-1: Ahmedabad-Sayla
Arrive at Ahmedabad and travel 136 km (2 ½ hrs) to Sayla. Enjoy your lunch at Sayla. Afternoon drive to watch large herds of blackbuck antelope. Dinner and Overnight stay at Old Bell Guest House, a heritage hotel.
Day-2: Dasada-Gondal
Drive to Gondal, 220 km (Four to five hours drive) where you will stay in the luxurious comfort of huge, high-ceilinged rooms of the Riverside Palace/Orchard Palace, both 19th century heritage homes converted by the Maharaja into a heritage hotel. See the royal fleet of vintage and classic cars, the 1748 AD Naulakha Palace and the Swaminarayan Temple. Dinner and overnight at one of the two heritage homes.
Day-3: Gondal-Gir
Drive to Gir (123 km, about three hours driving time) calling in on the way at Junagadh to see the imposing Uparkot Fort, Buddhist cave-sites, 3rd century BC Ashoka rock edicts, the palace museum filled with Nawabi treasures, the flamboyant royal mausoleum complexes.
Enjoy your lunch at Gir and depart for a safari in the Gir National Park & Wildlife Sanctuary. This deciduous forest is the last abode of the Asiatic lion and also has a thriving panther (leopard) population. It also has a large population of chital or spotted deer, sambar, blue bull antelope, chinkara gazelle, chousingha (the world's only four-horned antelope), wild boar and other wildlife. A number of attractive birds can be seen on the game-drive trail. Dinner and overnight at Gir.
Day-4 & 5: Gir Nation Park & Wildlife Sentury
Morning and evening drives in the Gir forests to look for the two big cats and to watch other wildlife.
Between the drives, visit Somnath to see the shore temple (one of the 12 holy abodes of Shiva), Sun Temple, Ahilya Temple and other monuments. Dinner and overnight at Gir.
Day-6:
Drive back to Ahmedabad for return flight.
