While we are at Ranthambore we will go on two game drives a day- one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Each game drive is about 3 1/2 hours. The park opens for the morning game drive from 6:00am to 9:30am and for the afternoon game drive from 3:00pm to 6:30pm. The hours are slightly different at different times of the year.
We wake up early, have tea/coffee, go on the morning game drive, have breakfast/brunch as soon as we get back, rest for a few hours, go on the afternoon game drive, cleanup and finally have dinner.
There are a total of 8 people in our tour group. There are two people per vehicle plus the driver and the local guide. Sometimes the expedition leader(Adi) or the additional leader(Varun) would join in our jeep. We saw many very large safari vehicles that would hold 20 or more people so we were very happy with our two per jeep.
The park assigns a zone for each jeep and each game drive. The tour company doesn’t get to pick the zone and you may have the same zone multiple times during your visit. There are 10 zones in the park- 5 zones (1-5) are close to our lodging and 5 zones (6-10)are a 20 minute drive from our lodging.
Today Tibor and I are in Zone 6 for the morning and Zone 1 for the afternoon. Yesterday we were in Zone 3. They drove us in the van to the Zone 6 entrance since it is more comfortable than using the jeep.
Morning Game Drive Zone 6
Afternoon Game Drive Zone 1
