Ranthambore National Park Safari

Ranthambore National Park is a very popular tourist destination in Rajasthan. Being close most famous tourist places in North India – Delhi, Agra & Jaipur – makes it easily accessible. Its location, thus, make Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve a natural extension of Golden Triangle Tour Packages. Ranthambore National Park was a former private hunting reserve of the maharajas of Jaipur. Though relatively small, it is one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves in India. An original Project Tiger site, it held only 14 tigers when it was authorized. Its tiger population has increased exponentially, and now has numbers of leopards as well, along with chital, sambar deer, chinkaras, nilgai or blue bulls, sloth bears, jackals, wild boars, striped hyenas, and others. For a while Ranthambore was famous for tigers which became so trustful of humans they appeared in daylight, sometimes hunting, sometimes with cubs, sometimes with mates. Their unwariness sounded their death knell. Poachers killed many, amid charges of official corruption, for the Chinese folk medicine trade, and those that remained have lost their innocence.