Booking sites quote one number and leave you to guess what's inside it. Every package below is split three ways — what the lodge charges, what the safari itself costs, and what we charge to put it together and run it. If you only want a safari booked and nothing else, that's a flat ₹1,000 per jeep and you can skip the packages entirely.
Each package carries a bar showing where your money actually goes. Most of it never touches us — it goes to the lodge you sleep in and to the Maharashtra forest department for your permits, jeep and guide. Those we pass through at the rate we're charged. Our own booking charge is the small band on the right.
These are genuinely different products, not the same trip at three lengths. What changes is who else is in your vehicle and who decides where it goes.
Set dates, a seat rather than a vehicle, road transport from Nagpur included. The straightforward way to do Tadoba if you're coming from an Indian city and don't want to organise anything.
A long weekend that still gets you four proper drives. Four guests per jeep, so everyone has a clear side.
Six drives across several gates. Enough that a quiet morning is just a quiet morning, not a wasted trip.
Both reserves we run ourselves. Different forest, different tigers, transfer handled between them.
Nobody else in the vehicle, and you choose the gate rather than taking what's allocated. This is where our gate knowledge is actually worth paying for — and it costs more because a jeep booked for two costs the same as a jeep booked for six.
Your dates, your gates, your vehicle. Priced for two sharing — the per-head figure falls sharply as you add people.
Six private drives, planned gate by gate around what's moving that week rather than a fixed circuit.
Longer, slower, and planned around light and one particular stretch of ground. Quoted individually because no two of these are the same shape.
Repeat drives on one gate rather than a tour of all of them, timed to the season you're shooting for.
Multi-reserve trips, premium lodges, airport transfers and the parts of India either side of the safari.
We don't invent a higher price so we can cross it out. These reductions exist because the trip genuinely costs us less to run — so we pass the difference on.
Permits released in the advance quota cost less and are far easier to secure than the three-day tatkal window. Booking early costs us less work and less risk, so you keep the difference.
Per person · advance quotaForest department rates are lower on weekdays, lodges are quieter and cheaper, and there are fewer vehicles at the gate. Better trip, lower cost — the rare case where both move the same way.
Per person · weekday departureA jeep costs the same whether two people sit in it or six. Come as four, five or six and the vehicle cost splits further — the biggest single saving on a private booking.
Per person · 4+ travellingTimes shift with the season — gates open earlier in summer and later in winter. This is the shape, not a timetable.
Reach Chandrapur and transfer to your lodge. Check in, eat, then out on the afternoon drive — the gate depends on what we've secured for your dates. Dinner back at the lodge.
Early start — the gate opens around first light and the first hour is usually the best of the day. Back for breakfast and rest through the heat, then out again in the afternoon, often at a different gate.
One more morning drive. Afterwards there's time for the reserve's edges — birding stretches, the villages, or simply not moving. We'll tell you honestly if a fifth drive is worth adding.
Breakfast, then transfer for your onward journey. If you're continuing to Pench or Nagpur we'll have arranged it already.
Tell us when you're coming and how many of you there are. We'll come back with what's actually available at which gate, itemised the same way as above.