SOUTH INDIA

The Deccan plateau makes up most of the central part of southern India, bordered by the mountain ranges of the Western and Eastern Ghats. During the medieval age, a number of India’s greatest dynasties grew within this region. Almost every city contains architectural jewels: the maharajahs of Mysore constructed exquisite royal palaces and gardens while the city of Hyderabad was built by its ruler to resemble paradise itself.

Jump on a 4x4 safari in Panna National Park, looking out for Bengal tigers, leopards and sloth bears; visit the beautiful sal and bamboo forests of Kanha, inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book; search the skies for migratory steppe eagles in Bandhavgarh; and venture into Satpura on a walking safari.