What People Are Saying
We love to hear from our guests. Below are some quotes from past travelers.
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My wife and I first visited India in 2001 for the purpose of a tiger safari where we enjoyed some excellent sightings of wild tigers in Kanha and Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserves. While staying at a lodge in Bandhavgarh we were introduced to their guide and naturalist Vivek Sharma who accompanied and guided us in the tiger Reserve. We were both very impressed with Vivek's knowledge of the wildlife in the Reserve and for his enduring enthusiasm to show and explain to us the history of Bandhavgarh and the ecosystem of the Reserve. Since that first visit to Bandhavgarh we have revisited the park on a number of occasions always accompanied by our friend and traveling companion Vivek who has passed onto to us some of his invaluable knowledge of tigers and their habitat. More recently I spent 2 weeks in March and October 2006 on 2 safaris' superbly organised by Tiger Expeditions. Vivek was always waiting patiently for me at Delhi International airport for my flight to arrive and on arrival with excitement mounting we set off on the first leg of our journey to the tiger Reserve. Vivek has always shown a wonderful ability in locating the whereabouts of tigers. On my last visit in October he located 2 juvenile tigers playing together like children in a pool of water. We successfully spent almost 1 hour in the presence of these 2 X 12 month old tigers and I was able to take some excellent photographs of them one of which is now proudly displayed on a wall at home. I have enjoyed my safaris' so much with Vivek that he has already arranged yet another safari to Bandhavgarh in March 2007. I have no hesitation in recommending Vivek and Tiger Expeditions for their superb organisational skills and expertise to anyone thinking of a wildlife safari to India.

Tiger Expeditions took care of every detail, making sure that our visit was tailored exactly to what we wanted. In Vivek we had the most enthusiastic & knowledgeable of guides. His passion is the tigers and he appears to know each one personally. However he is just as knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the birds, flora & fauna & India 's rich cultural heritage."

A batch of 250 delegates of AEF, Melbourne, Australia visited India during Sept – Oct 2007. Some of the participants of AEF delegates joined Post-Conference Fieldwork program with Tiger Expeditions at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. The Feedback received from their Director  Maureen Welch on the trips & services provided by the Tiger Expeditions is given below:

 “I enjoyed the passion of Vivek Sharma and his images were fabulous. We learnt of an excellent resource that I will purchase as soon as I get home”

This trip was ‘real' not a contrived tourist jaunt. I was in the thick of bamboo going up a steep slope on an elephant and their she was, a tiger cub lying peacefully less than 3 metres away. Today was a highlight of my life!

The whole experience, including the village walk gave a complete new dimension to our visit to Tiger Reserve.

A deep, warm, contented inner experience that cannot be expressed in words!
I learnt so much about tigers, tiger reserve, Bandhavgarh & local villagers. I have so many curriculum and lesson ideas as well as resource materials – thank you

Hello! How are you? I’m sure you’ve been very busy since we saw you a few weeks ago. What a wonderful trip! Thank you so much for looking after us and for your kindness. It was so much fun. I can’t quite believe that I saw B2 (dominant male tiger) in the flesh! I felt very sad when I got back to Sydney - it was to short a time. I’d really love to return to India one day in the not too distant future.

 “ I am almost finished writing an article for a Chicago newspaper about our visit and I will send you a copy when it is published .”

 “In every instance, Vivek  Sharma's hard work and expertise were invaluable, enabling every one to see tigers and to understand their movements in details.”

Vivek has also contributed photographs and excellent field data to the new book TIGER by Stephen Mills being published in March 2004 by BBC.

Vivek Mohan Sharma from Tiger Expeditions, India was invited to Australia by the NSW Department of Education and Training, Australia for the period 16 July to the 4 September 2004 to work with teachers of Asian studies and to prepare materials for teachers.

Prior to accepting and invitation to visit Australia. Department officers were most impressed with the support that Mr. Sharma provided to a group of NSW teachers when they visited Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in January 2003. They gained and increased understanding of the issues surrounding tigers and tiger habitat conservation and gathered valuable resources to transfer that understanding into classroom lessons. Vivek Sharma provided expert advice. Personal support and professional development to these teachers and maintained contact with them to provide support on their return to Australia.

We have been thinking of you and remember so fondly our time with you in India.  What fun we had exploring Agra, Bandhavgarh and Khajuraho with you we were delighted to receive these very nice pictures, which bring back memories of our wonderful time together.  Sandy and I have shared stories of our travel with you with our friends. I have told them in great detail about our tiger sightings.  I explain to everyone that first the mahouts would scout out the tigers, then we had to climb onto the back of magnificent elephants who took us to view the tigers.  Everyone is very interested and likes to hear about that.  No one knows how important the elephants are to sighting the tiger.
I am so happy that we had a chance to visit Bandhavgarh once again.  The park is beautiful and the tigers a treat to see.  And your guidance and company were greatly appreciated and so much fun.

We hope you are well, too.
First we would like to thank you both again for your efforts to make our stay in India pleasant and eventful, and for your kind hospitality. We really appreciated and did enjoy it and the whole trip!

By the way, meanwhile we had a short look - more wasn't possible as there are as always many things to do after returning from holidays - at your site. Congratulations, it looks great and we sure will take closer looks at the informations and your impressive tiger photos.

We hope you both are fine. Since a week we are back in Switzerland and we still are dreaming about the wonderful trip in India.

Everybody who wants to listen (or not) we tell about this amazing land. The colors, the wonderful landscapes, the beautiful hardworking women and, of course, about the parks and there animals! IT WAS GREAT!

We look forward to march 2009, for the trip to North India and Sikkim. We really hope it wil take place and we can meet you both again.
Take care so far. Love Gertrud & Frans

First of all, we are still full of nice memories and images of the Wonderful weeks in India. It is extremely difficult to start with normal live here after such experiences in India. We studied already a part of the pictures we made and than it becomes even more difficult. Thanks a lot for such marvelous days and thanks as well for the information about the nice tour in March and April.