Madhya Pradesh, India 2018

On assignment with the Adventure Travel Trade Association for AdventureNEXT India, I traveled with Ibex Expeditions and the crew from Reni Pani Jungle Lodge for this first class adventure with a group of journalists, activists and adventure travel operators from all around the world. We bonded while hiking, laughing and eating our way through Satpura National park and Tiger Reserve, before the 3 day conference in Bhopal.

Beatrice came biking
Picnic lunch and tea
Wendy and Joe Kennedy, tour operator from Australia
Locals loved getting group photos with us
Drive by
Kat Vallera, travel advisor from the US, gets some work done by the pool at Reni Pani Lodge
Some optional afternoon yoga
and a canoe trip all in the same day
Eyes out for birds. We saw too many species to keep track of!
Yash Thakur, our lovely host from Madhya Pradesh Tourism who learned to canoe this very day and paddled my camera and I all over.
Beatrice and our canoe guides
Evening cooking demonstration
Day 5: Departing the jungle and heading to Bhopal
On the drive we requested to explore a small strip on foot
Many people asked me to take their pictures
We were in a small village that rarely sees foreigners. We were quite the spectacle.
The locals were so friendly and curious as to what we were doing there.
Drive by shot of possibly a wedding celebration?