Jawai is one of the few places in Rajasthan where a short trip actually works. You are not fighting through city traffic or ticking off forts. You arrive, you settle, and the days shape themselves around two safari drives and a lot of open time in between. Granite hills, a large reservoir full of birds,...Read More

Ask most travellers what Jawai is known for and you get one answer: leopards. It is a fair answer. The leopards here are unusual, they live in granite caves above working villages, and they are the reason most people book the trip in the first place. But if leopards are the only thing you plan...Read More

Most wildlife trips in India follow a familiar pattern. You enter a gate, drive into thick forest, and hope something walks across the track. Jawai does not work that way. Here, in Rajasthan’s Pali district, the landscape is open and rocky. Huge granite hills rise straight out of farmland. Shepherds move their goats along the...Read More