India’s first hot air balloon safari
- India’s first hot air balloon safari in a tiger reserve was launched on December 25, 2020 in Madhya Pradesh’s world famous Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.
- The hot air balloon wildlife safari will be restricted to the buffer area, from where the tourists will be able to watch leopards, tigers, Indian sloth bear and other wild animals.
- The service will be operated by a Jaipur-based company Sky Waltz.
- The hot air balloon safari is the first in any tiger reserve in the country.
- The addition of the activity at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve has added one more adventure for tourists coming to the place.
- The hot air balloon safari will give the tourists an aerial view of all the animals hosted by the tiger reserve.
- Madhya Pradesh was declared the Tiger State in 2019. As per the July 2019 Tiger census report, the tiger count in the state had risen from 308 in 2014 to 526 in 2018


