East to West: Highlights of the Gangetic Plain
An immersive 2-week urban and rural adventure across the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Step away from the tourist trail and into authentic India.
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A one-of-a-kind safari lodge. Surrounded by untamed terrain - once a lawless land - it doesn’t get much more rugged and ‘real’ than this. While the family-run retreat has a homely, familiar feel, the experiences and excursions it offers guests are anything but ordinary.
Chambal Safari Lodge is a great base for guided wildlife excursions and walks. It's well worth waking early for a sunrise boat safari down the calm Chambal River. You'll admire local and migratory birds overhead, spot gharials, muggers and turtles sunbathing on the sandbanks, and - if you're lucky - glimpse a Gangetic river dolphin breaking the water's surface. A visit to the quiet ghats in Bateshwar nearby is also not to be missed. Here, you'll wander timeless temples, see Sadhus in the brightest of orange robes and soak up a staggering sunset.
The lovely owners have made a conscious effort to ensure the property is as eco-friendly as possible and in tune with the natural surroundings. Authentic home-cooked food is served in the restaurant using local and organic produce and the garden's old trees and sprawling bougainvillaea set among the restored late 18th-century stable block makes for an idyllic spot to dine in the evenings.
Despite sitting fairly close to the honeypot site of the Taj Mahal (around an hour’s drive away), the eco-lodge feels a million miles away. A stay here is the perfect antidote to Rajasthan’s hectic cities: you can have some downtime and decompress surrounded by greenery and birdsong.
Eco/Adventure - This category covers gorgeous lodges in the jungle, comfortable safari camps and dreamy, but simple, beach cabanas. These places defy conventional categorisation: what is communing with nature to one person may be terrifying bugs to another! Many of these places are very comfortable and the service generally of a very high level - but please read the website review carefully and/or talk to us and be sure to have understood what you are letting yourselves in for!
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