The Amrabad Tiger Reserve tour from Hyderabad begins with hotel pickup at 9 am in a private air conditioned vehicle. The drive to the reserve takes approximately three hours.

Check-in at the Munnanur Jungle Resort inside the reserve is at noon. After an orientation session at the Environment Centre — where your naturalist guide explains the ecology of the reserve, the wildlife you may encounter and the history of the Chenchu and Lambada communities who have lived in these forests for generations — the afternoon begins with the wildlife safari.

The Farahabad jungle safari is conducted in a jeep through the forest tracks of the reserve in the late afternoon when wildlife is most active. Amrabad has one of the most diverse mammal populations of any tiger reserve in India — tigers, leopards, wild dogs, Indian wolves, foxes, jungle cats, rusty-spotted cats, sloth bears, honey badgers, wild boar, chinkara, nilgai, blackbuck and the four-horned antelope all live within the reserve. Your naturalist guide reads the forest as you move through it — tracks in the dust, alarm calls from langurs, the particular stillness that precedes a large predator’s appearance. Wildlife spotting is never guaranteed — tigers are elusive by nature and the forest is vast — but the experience of moving through a functioning wild ecosystem with a guide who understands it is extraordinary in itself.

The overnight stay is in Farha, the treehouse named after tigress F6, the reigning female of the Amrabad territory. Nestled in the canopy of a large juvvi tree above a percolation tank, the treehouse overlooks a waterhole that is regularly visited by leopards, sloth bears, deer and wild boar — particularly after dark. Dinner is included on day one.

Day two begins before sunrise. The dawn trek through the reserve to the ruined fort of Prataparudra is the most unusual element of the Amrabad Tiger Reserve tour from Hyderabad — a walk through the forest in the early light, when the birds are at their most active and the nocturnal animals are returning from their night’s movement, leading to the ruins of a fort that once housed one of the most powerful kings in South India. The views from the fort walls over the reserve are extraordinary in the early morning light. Breakfast follows at the resort before checkout at 10 am.

Drive back to Hyderabad, arriving by approximately 3 pm.

This private Amrabad Tiger Reserve tour from Hyderabad is fully inclusive. We take care of hotel pickup and drop in Hyderabad in a private air conditioned vehicle, your expert naturalist guide throughout, all entry fees, wildlife safari, fort trek, one night stay in the forest lodge on double occupancy, lunch and dinner on day one, and breakfast on day two.