India's vast geographical diversity provides huge scope for the adventure tourist by providing a remarkable experience for all those who fancy the wild and want to see how man and nature have flourished together. While you rediscover yourself from the spell of age-old monasteries and temples, the Himalayan peaks and slopes, with its dense tropical forests providing diverse fauna and flora, and the 3000 km long coastline promises the most exciting of sports and adventure imaginable

The sheer thrill of rafting along roaring waters of great rivers, hang gliding over deep mountain gorges and climbing serrated glaciers or mountain summits is to be experienced to be believed.

And, mind you, these thrills and these serenity forms just a small part of the exhilaration and excitement for the fast growing area, which is increasingly being recognized as adventure tourism.

India is also home to many wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, which are the natural habitat of many animals and rare species. It has the second largest wildlife base in the world. In India you can find tropical wet evergreen jungles of the Ghats in the Indian Peninsula to the alpine forests of the Himalayas. Areas like the Deccan Peninsula, the Indian coasts, the Western Ghats, the Gangetic plain, the Northeastern Region and the Trans Himalayan region form the main wildlife zones in India. The climate and vegetation of these areas, range from the tropical to the temperate, and is home to tigers, snow leopards, elephants, antelopes, deer, bears, jackals, hyena, wild buffalo, etc.

India's exotic wildlife reserves are home to the largest number of tigers and one-horned rhinoceros in the world, as well as the almost extinct Asiatic Lion, and a large percentage of the total Asian elephant population.