A camel safari across the tawny sands of the Great Indian Thar Desert is a rare and rewarding experience. It takes travellers on Old Caravan routes, unfolding along the way the marvels of glorious Rajputana showing amazing frescoes, intricate paintings and fine Hindu architecture of forts and palaces.

You meet cameliers dressed in traditional desert garb, their camels mounted with tasselled saddles and hand-woven blankets. The gently undulating landscape is starkly beautiful, broken only by the simple villages of nomadic and pastoral tribes. You cover about 10 miles per day (you may ride, walk or even sit on a camel cart), camping each night under clear desert
skies. The atmosphere recreated is of the ancient caravan journeys with music, dance and food. The itineraries for riding the Thar on camel can be woven around the colourful desert festivals.

Ibex Expeditions provides camels and all transport by bus/jeep accompanied by guides, cooks and kitchen and camp equipment. The cameliers also accompany you, occasionally strumming their locally made musical instruments.

Camel safaris can be done from the desert towns of Mandawa, Jodhpur, or the yellow sandstone town of Jaisalmer. The best time of the year for this adventure is in winter from November to March. During the safari, you stay in camps or in old Maharaja forts and havelis.

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Riding through tiny villages, open spans of sand and the colourful ethnic, rustic scenery of Rajasthan allowing an additional taste of history too. And, along the way one can hear the far away melodies of the typical folk music and witness their tribal dances and folklore that bring out the rich legacy and culture of the land.

The rich fertile belt at the foot of the Aravalli hills in the state of Rajasthan comprise several villages that were once ruled by the Rathore chieftains. The area is flanked at one end by the green hills and on the other has the higher peaks of Kumbalgarh atop which is one of the great bastions, the Fort Kumbalgarh.

On horseback, we travel through these wonderful foothills, now a wild life sanctuary dotted with lakes, temples and monuments including the famous marble Jain temples of Ranakpur.

The horses are thorough bred from the stables of Mewar and are dresses in rich saddlery. Travellers on a horse safari would stay at heritage forts, castles and palaces and all meals are provided for. The journeys range from 4 to 7 days.


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A safari atop the lofty, gentle, grey pachyderms as a mode of transport for a few days is an unforgettable experience. They are not only guided by their mahouts but by their own heritage. Their in-built experience smoothly guides them over plains, across waterbeds and river beds and helps them find suitable branches at meal times.

A journey on elephant back in India can be combined to view wild life in the forests of Uttar Pradesh or amid the coconut palms, yet most beautiful forest country of South India.

The excitement is tremendous; moving brambles and branches through a beautiful forest in a storybook setting with overhanging branches in greens and ochre’s with wild rugged backdrop of thickets.

IBEX organises Elephant Safaris in the forests of Kerala in South India or in Uttar Pradesh in North India. Riding seats or howdahs are provided. You can ride about 8 - 10 kilometres per day and camp at picturesque spots. Occasionally, you stay at old guest houses or heritage properties or even village settings.

Elephants and mahouts, land and air transportation, camping equipment and staff is organised by Ibex Expeditions.


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