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Wild
trails of Gujarat
DURATION
- 6 days 5 nights
Day-1:
AHMEDABAD - SAYLA
Arrive at Ahmedabad and travel 136 km (2 ˝ 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 NATIONAL PARK & WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
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.
Tour
Ends

Associated
Hotels
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Destinations
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Hotels
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Category
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Sayla
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Old
Bell Guest House-a heritage property
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Heritage
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Gondal
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Riverside
Palace/Orchard Palace
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Heritage
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Gir
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Gir
Birding Lodge
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A
deluxe safari camp
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