An Ideal and Best Elephant Safari for Elephant Riding in India

The adventure tour in India is popular especially because of the elephant safari trips.

Elephant safari helps the visitor to travel through such difficult terrains where even jeeps cannot venture. And why not? Riding an elephant takes you back to the royal era when only the kings use to ride on these majestic beasts since nothing can even compare to the majesty of a Pachyderm.

Equipped with a howdah, a large seat on which they would sit, complete with soft silk cushions, and with a ceremonial umbrella over the rider's head, modern-day elephant safaris may lack in comparison with the ones that use to be done by the kings, but are no less real on that account.

The elephant moves slowly and steadily, that's why this type of safari is ideal in and around the wild regions or within the vicinity of the wildlife sanctuaries, where riding the elephant can provide you with an easy way for viewing the wildlife. More of all an elephant safari tour in the tropical wildlife sanctuaries of India gets you up, close and personal with these majestic animals.

Amid your ride, you can explore the beauty of forest; you will see the wild elephants taking bath in the water ponds. The photographers can easily take pictures of the wild while riding and as a souvenir of the amazing journey into the wilds, take one with the elephant too.

India is well versed with many wildlife parks where Elephants are used for wildlife safari & tiger tracking. 

Some of such most visited National parks you would love to visit during your Elephant tour in India are:

Bandhavgarh National Park - Encircled by cliffs & wooded Vindhyan mountains, enriched with wild attractions including Wild Boar, Nilgai, Chital, Chinkara, Chausingha, Fox, Jackal and other wild animals, Bandhavgarh National park gives you the opportunity to enjoy Elephant safari that is being organized for tiger tracking early in the morning.

Corbett National Park - Wandering through the Corbett national park on an Elephant Back to come under Project Tiger, it supports a wide variety of wildlife heritage making it the ideal habitat for the Tiger. In a two-hour elephant ride, you can explore the sea of grass, coming across much more than a deer among the tall grass, and even sight a tiger if you are fortunate enough.

Kanha National Park -Kanha is very rich in wildlife including all the grazers, many Gray langurs, Mongoose, Hyena, varieties of Deer, Nilgai, Chousingha, even a Leopard. The rich wildlife at Kanha can best observe from the elephant back where the open region makes the chance of sightings reasonably good.

Kaziranga National Park - Located in the far North East of India & covering approx 430 sqkms, the park has a rich wildlife giving a chance to nature enthusiasts to closely watch wild animals thus making the Elephant safari India a rewarding experience. One can see wild elephants roaming around, or Indian Rhinos passing by. The best time is to leave in the early hours of the dawn for an elephant back ride.

Indian wildlife holidays are more exciting if complimented with an elephant safari, an experience that enchants the nature lovers & wildlife tourists to the fullest extent. So get ready to enjoy this excitement through your Indian wildlife tour as you will barely get this opportunity anywhere else.