iCampers Plans for 2015

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year!!

iCampers has great plans of travel this year. Please see if you would be interested in joining these camps.

Contact me on +91 9822241880 OR
email - contact.iCampers@gmail.com

for further details

January 2015 -  Bhigwan, Pune

17 Jan 2015 - Day trip to Bhigwan to welcome the friends from the North
- Plan to meet up early morning at Pune and do a car pool to reach the destination.

Thanks all who joined us for this bird watching session. Check out the photos / blog

February 2015 - Bharatpur
 
For those Bhigwan is not enough for birding, we are planning a trip to the paradise of migratory birds. Schedule as follows

Batch Full

Thanks all for all those attended this bird watching camp. Please find the photos / blogs

April 2015 - Kanha National Park

As all the kids completes their academic year, the summer vacation invites for a wild magic. So there would be a camp for all the age groups.

Batch Full



 

May 2015 - Tadoba National Park

As soon as the academic results are declared, parents can give a holiday gift to the kids with some sort of freedom and independence.

Batch Full

June 2015 - Tadoba with added excitement. 

Batch Full

Driving to and fro + 4 Rides inside Jungle, just before the monsoon sets in. Contact ASAP if interested. Flight option is also open.

July / August 2015 - Monsoon Masti (TBD)
Planning in progress..


Sept 2015 - Kaas Plateau (TBD)
Plan to visit the plateau of flowers as it blooms. Date depends on Monsoon schedule..
TBD


Nov 2015 - Ranthambhore

Booking in Progress!!

The best sightings that iCampers had in 2015 were all predominantly in Tadoba. But if we compare it with other forests, Tadoba still stands at number two in terms of spotting the big cats. What comes at number one is Ranthambhore! Ranthambhore is known for its tigers and is one of the best places in India to see these animals in their natural habitat. Tigers can be easily spotted in this forest. iCampers will add this destination to its offerings starting this Diwali.

Dec 2015 - Bharatpur
Planning in progress --

 Dec 2015 - Jamnagar Drive  (Tentative)
TBD

First Ever Wildlife Camp - Pench - Apr 2009 (Camp 1)

Way back in April 2009 we friends and relatives have organized a first ever wild life trip. iCampers seeds were sown during this camp. We were group of 6 planned the visit to Pench national park. At that time there was no name to the group.

In that small camp we had great sightings. Those were the days when I did not have the SLR camera. All the photos in here were clicked using Canon SX10IS.

Folks in this first ever camp batch were –

Vishal, Pratibha,Vijay,Ranjan kaka, Shreya and I

First time we experienced a wild cat coming at a distance of 6ft from our vehicle. It was amazing feeling which inspires us to go again and again to the wild life sanctuaries to witness that excitement.  

Since then we did lot many camps but the first camp still makes me nostalgic!

My Gang

One of the amazing sighting during that camp was the Asian Palm Civet. Since then I had seen this animal couple of times but was not able to take a snap. So till 2014 this is the only shot I have of this lovely animal.

Asian Palm Civet

Babbler Chick

Crested Hawk Eagle

Indian Gaur

Ghost Tree

Flameback

Indian Grey Hornbill

Honey Buzzard

Eurasian thicknee

Hornbill

Indian Roller

Indian Roller

Orange Headed Thrush

Pench Silhouette

Sambar Deer Male

Sambar Deer

Spotted Beauty

In search of water

Sun sets in Pench

Sunset

First ever sighting of the Tiger Cub

Second day, early morning we saw fully grown tigress with GPS collar installed walked from the woods towards us. She was very thirsty and hungry when she walked towards us. She was panting with her long tonge out and breathing loudly. She was so close to us that we could hear the breathe. That sound of her breathe made us breathless. 

I did not have the SLR and big lenses that time. But that was blessing in disguise. With the bigger lens, I would have lost this shot! Anyways the shots were not that great, but good enough to induce the urge of learning photography.





 

Collar wali (With GPS Collar)

Seeing off

Too Close

Hungry and thirsty

In search

In Golden light

Wooly necked stork

Yellow Footed Green Pigeon

Yellow Wattled Lapwing

Flying Squirrel

The Big Group

I pay lot of respect to this group. This camp has motivated me a lot to learn photography, to learn about wild life and also gave me the eye for bird watching. that learning still continues and hope it continues ever!! I can also call it as a rise of  iCampers!!