Jim Parkas:Sweden
Back in Sweden after two weeks in India with your help. I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for the arrangement. I have gathered some comments for you below
Hotels:
The hotel in Agra was fantastic, modern with great rooms and good food (also the Delhi resthouse was OK).
Corbett Hotel best in class, wonderful service and excellent food.
All lodges in Pangot, Sattal and Bharatpur were fantastic experiences with friendly and helpful staff and always fantastic food !
Guides:
Mr. Hari Lama (Sattal, Pangot, Corbett) was one of the best guides I have ever used. A great guy with a sense of humour, very humble, with eagle-eyes and very knowledgeable in terms of birdcalls and ID.
Bharatpur was somewhat disappointing due to the drought, and we missed a couple of species in the area (Bund Baretha and Bharatpur).
Driver:
The one (along with Hari Lama) we would like to praise is our safe driver Suraj (hope I spell his name right). He was a fantastic service-minded man who also knew the birds and the places very well. He speaks excellent english and has a great sense of humour and really made our often long journeys a true pleasure.
I want to thank you and your company for making this a very successful trip for us. You have acted very professional and I will be happy to recommend you to all birders going to these parts of India in the future.
Please forward the positive comments to the people it concerns since I think it is important to get appreciation when doing a great job.
Edmond King UK
No problem at all and our driver was there on time to drop us at the airport.
The driver (Laxman) was superb and we would be very happy to have him drive us again. Overall we had a great trip and were very happy with our game viewing. As you know this was a bespoke itinerary for us based on seeing cat species.
Gir National park was great as was Raan (best food). Bera was very good and I appreciated the effort over my birthday celebrations.
Jalore was our highlight, staying in an area so full of wildlife was excellent and the hospitality was superb. Sitamata was also interesting and the accommodation was the best we have ever had in India in 19 years of travel there.
We had a great trip and would be happy to work with you again on our future travel plans.
Dr. Emma Williamson UK
Dr. Eldin Fahmy UK
We had a great holiday especially watching my partner taking a shower with an elephant -- the video is hilarious!!
Certainly the local guides were great and we did as many local activities as we could, thereby benefiting local people.We had a really great time.
We got to chill out as well as do different things and activities. We were able to see different parts of Kerala which we could have planned ourselves but this saved us a lot of time and stress ands we surely recommend India Footprints to others…..wonderful memories
From Ian & Jane Walker group UK
We arrived back home today at lunchtime,after
a trouble free journey last night. At this stage its hard to put into words how
much Jane and I enjoyed our trip,there were so many fantastic experiences crammed
into just 3 weeks. Some initial thoughts: -Sikkim- amazing,both of us enjoyed our
sperate and joint experiences,the hotels were excellent,Vijay was the best guide
we have ever come accross,the accomodation was first class and food excellent, a
beautiful state and one I will recommend to others -Darjeeling - pity about the
weather,but it couldn't spoil our time,the additional bonus of the Toy Train,accomodation
excellent,enjoyed experiencing the Town,HMI really enjoyed,zoo? - Agra,in spite
of visiting dignatories we managed to see everything,and even the train delay provided
opportuinities!!! - Train journey , was fine,everyone was happy with arrangements
other than delays - Kanha - Amazing tiger experiences (Jane 5 sightings & me
4 plus 1 leopard) food and accomodation as always superb. India Footprints - the
logistics were handled extremely well through out and your presence was key in making
things go so smoothly,your skills in anticipating everyone's needs,smoothing out
crises ie train delays helped so much .
Barry & Sandra UK
Well this was our second visit with India
Footprints and as usual it went just great and will surely come back again..
Angela UK
I just want to
convey what a great time i had in India and i know i will definitely return to such
a magical place and wonderful people. I also want to thank you and kirty for being
so generous for Kirty looking after me and for the shirts for my Sons, they are
both very please and feel they have a special treat from a lovely country. many
thanks once again.
EDWIN Germany
What a wonderful Birding holiday we had,the
guides were very good & will sure recomend to others.It was a great experience
Birding in Himalayas. No complaints. Everything was fine and the food was excellent.
Liz and Ian UK
We arrived home safely on Monday
and have just about finished unpacking. Our trip to Jaipur was excellent. The hotel
was very pleasant being an old palace with all modern conveniences, it was full
of atmosphere and comfortable. Our guide and driver were both very good and the
sights of Jaipur were amazing though the large number of other tourists contrasted
with what we had experienced in Sikkim and Kanha. Thankyou so much for all your
efforts in organising the trip and ensuring that all went well. We enjoyed your
company and missed you in the last week. Please also give a big thankyou to your
lovely wife and daughter for making us so welcome in your home. It was an oasis
of calm and comfort in a busy schedule. We hope to visit India again and will surely
get in touch with you when we do. That reminds me nobody gave us details of your
agent in Madras. It might be useful for our son Robert when he is there in December
if you could send us the information. Once again many thanks for helping to make
our trip such a success.
Paul and Margaret Alderson
Kanha
was wonderful - with quite beautiful forest and meadows where we saw 4 tigers and
3 leopards! Special thanks to Bapu and Raju our guide and driver whose tracking
skills were tremendous. We enjoyed staying at Krishna Jungle Resort where
the manager and his staff made us very welcome. At Bandhavgarh we saw three more
tigers! Our rooms at Nature Heritage were attractive and comfortable and Romy the
manager was very attentive. The food at both hotels was delicious. We enjoyed our
road journeys made in the comfortable cars with careful drivers you provided. We
loved watching the villagers in their homes and fields as we passed by and we considered
the longish journeys as an enjoyable part of our holiday experience. We were extremely
lucky to get a carriage to ourselves on the overnight sleeper from Katni to Agra
and arrived in time to experience an early morning visit to the Taj Mahal which
took our breaths away!
On
then to Chambal Safari Lodge. What an oasis of calm - except when the colony of
hundreds of flying foxes left their roost at sunset! The Chambal River cruise was
beautiful and we were lucky enough to visit the village of Bateshwar when their
annual Mela was taking place - very colourful and vibrant.
Everything
ran so smoothly, which no doubt was due to your attention to detail, for which we
are very grateful.
We're
already talking about our next visit
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