Safari Blog
The things we know about Indian tigers, written down so you can read them at midnight before booking.
This is where we are putting ten years of safari knowledge into writing, one post at a time. The first wave of posts will land over the next month or two, and they cover the questions guests actually ask before booking, not the questions a content marketing agency would tell us to write about.
If you want to be told when the first posts are live, drop your email at the bottom of the page. Otherwise, the planned topics are below.
What Will Be Here
The wildlife safari in India content most useful to a guest planning their first trip falls into a handful of categories. Here is what we are writing.
Best time to visit each park
A month-by-month guide to every reserve we operate in. When the tigers are easiest to find. When the lodges fill first. When the heat is too much for guests with kids. The kind of detail you can only write if you have actually been in the park during the month in question, repeatedly, across different years. These are some of the highest-value pieces a safari guide for India can produce, and we are starting with Ranthambore, Kanha, Bandhavgarh, and Tadoba.
How to reach each park
Plain logistics. The nearest airport, the nearest railway station, the road conditions, the time of day to arrive, the lodges that handle their own pickups versus the ones that need you to arrange it. One post per park.
Tiger safari cost in India, properly explained
The single most-asked question. Most operators dance around it because the answer depends on too many variables, and most published ranges are wrong for half of guests. We are going to write the version that breaks the variables down properly: which lodge tier matters, which season matters, why group size changes the maths, and why the most expensive lodge does not always get you the best guide. The post will explain the structure of how a quote actually gets built, so you can read any operator's quote and understand what you are paying for.
Park comparisons
Kanha versus Bandhavgarh. Ranthambore versus Corbett. Tadoba versus Pench. The comparisons that guests actually need when they have narrowed it down to two parks and cannot decide. Written by people who have spent serious time in both.
Photography tips for Indian tiger safaris
For guests who travel with serious equipment. Light, hides, lenses, the etiquette of working alongside other vehicles, and the small adjustments that make Indian tiger photography different from anywhere else. Some genuine tiger safari tips from the guides who have tracked the same tigers for ten years and understand their habits at the level you need them to.
Conservation stories
The Panna tiger reintroduction. The Manas recovery. The Kaziranga rhino numbers. The slow, unglamorous wins that do not make headlines but should. We fund some of this work directly, and the stories of the people doing it deserve a wider audience.
Beyond tigers
Asiatic lions in Gir. One-horned rhinos in Kaziranga. Wild dogs in Pench. Sloth bears in Satpura. The animals you go to India for after you have done the tiger trips. Doubles as a wildlife guide for India for second-time visitors who want to see something different.
Why We Are Writing This
Most safari blogs are content mills. We have read enough of them to know. They are written by SEO contractors who have never been to the parks they are describing, optimised for search terms that have nothing to do with the questions guests actually ask, and full of stock photographs that bear no relationship to the actual reserves.
This blog is the opposite of that. Every post will be written by either a member of the JJ planning team or one of our naturalist guides, edited for clarity, and built around the small details that only show up if you have actually spent the morning in question at the actual waterhole in question. The aim is for each post to be the most useful single thing on the internet about its specific subject. That is a high bar. We will not always clear it. But it is the bar.
Or, Skip Ahead
If you do not want to wait for the blog and you already know roughly what you want, the Enquire form is the fastest path. You can always come back to the blog after you have booked. To stay in touch, send us a message on WhatsApp and we will let you know when the first posts go live.