Bera leopard safari

Located in the the southern part of Rajasthan, the remote village of Bera has one the highest concentration of leopards in the world. The hills formed by lava millions of years ago, are a refuge for leopards and Indian striped hyenas. In an area of fifteen square kilometers, the leopards have found one of the ideal environments to thrive among open and degraded forests, rocky outcrops that rise between the irrigated fields and the thorny scrub of the desert adjacent to the village of Bera.

Leopards do not live on trees here but take refuge in the caves of the Aravalli range, a rough and irregular terrain and it is very common to spot leopards walking elegantly on rocky slopes. Their behavior is also different, leopards which are generally solitary animals, here in Bera it is possible to see adult leopards together.

One can also meet local shepherds in red turbans to understand an ancestral way of life and in harmony with the surrounding nature