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Vanya Vilas, Ranthambore

This Oberoi Groups` luxury spa resort, located adjacent to the famous Ranthambhor Tiger Reserve, is the first luxury jungle resort in India. The Resort consists of luxury air conditioned tents, located discretely so as to ensure maximum privacy. The tents, restaurants, bar, etc., occupy only 5% of the Site, thus maintaining its natural beauty.

The Ranthambore Tiger Reserve has a large variety of Flora & Fauna. President Bill Clinton, during his visit to India in March 2000, saw two tigers at Ranthambore in a single day.

Each of the 25 air-conditioned tents, has an area of 790 square feet with spacious, beautifully appointed interiors with teak wood flooring. The bathrooms are marbled with free standing bath tubs & separate shower stalls. There is a private deck for sun bathing & outdoor dining.

Location:

Located just 7 kms from the Park & 185 kms from Jaipur City, Ranthambore is heaven for Wildlife & Tiger lovers. The 392 sq.km park comprises of dry deciduous forest sprawling over the undulating terrain of the Arvalli and Vindhaan ranges. The park is one of the finest tiger reserves in the country under the project tiger.

The resort can be accessed by road from Delhi with an approximate travel time of 8 hours. There are direct rail and road links from Jaipur to the reserve with a travel time of 3 hours and 2 ¹/² hours respectively.

¤ Jaipur Airport - 190 kms
¤ Sawai Madhopur Railway Station - 8 kms
¤ Delhi - 380 kms
¤ Agra - 270 kms

Accommodation :

This Luxury Holiday Resort has over 25 Luxury Air Conditioned Tents with an area of 790 square feet.

All Spacious beautifully appointed interiors with teak wood flooring. Large well appointed marble bathrooms with free standing bathtubs, separate shower stalls and double vanity counters. Private deck for sun bathing and outdoor dining.

In room amenities include personal bar and satellite television, complimentary fresh fruit and flowers, mineral water.

Dining :

An air conditioned restaurant and an outdoor restaurant serving Continental and Indian cuisine. A well stocked Bar is there to cater. Snacks & beverages services are also available by the pool.


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People & Tribes of Himalayas

The population, settlement, and economic patterns within the Himalayas have been greatly influenced by the variations in topography and climate, which impose harsh living conditions and tend to restrict movement and communication. People living in remote, isolated valleys have generally preserved their cultural identities.

However, improvements in transportation and communication, particularly satellite television programs from Europe and the United States, are bringing access from the outside world to remote valleys. These outside influences are affecting traditional social and cultural structure.

Nearly 40 million people inhabit the Himalayas. Generally, Hindus of Indian heritage are dominant in the Sub-Himalayas and the Middle Himalayan valleys from eastern Kashmir to Nepal. To the north Tibetan Buddhists inhabit the Great Himalayas from Ladakh to northeast India.

In central Nepal, in an area between about 1830 and 2440 m (between about 6000 and 8000 ft), the Indian and Tibetan cultures have intermingled, producing a combination of Indian and Tibetan traits. The eastern Himalayas in India and nearby areas of eastern Bhutan are inhabited by animistic people whose culture is similar to those living in northern Myanmar and Yunnan province in China. People of western Kashmir are Muslims and have a culture similar to the inhabitants of Afghanistan and Iran.

The economy of the Himalayas as a whole is poor with low per capita income. Much of the Himalayas area is characterized by a very low economic growth rate combined with a high rate of population growth, which contributes to stagnation in the already low level of per capita gross national product. Most of the population is dependent on agriculture, primarily subsistence agriculture; modern industries are lacking.

Mineral resources are limited. The Himalayas has major hydroelectric potential, but the development of hydroelectric resources requires outside capital investment. The skilled labor needed to organize and manage development of natural resources is also limited due to low literacy rates. Most of the Himalayan communities face malnutrition, a shortage of safe drinking water, and poor health services and education systems.

Agricultural land is concentrated in the Tarai plain and in the valleys of the Middle Himalayas. Patches of agricultural land have also been carved out in the mountainous forested areas. Rice is the principal crop in eastern Tarai and the well-watered valleys. Corn is also an important rain-fed crop on the hillsides.

Other cereal crops are wheat, millet, barley, and buckwheat. Sugarcane, tea, oilseeds, and potatoes are other major crops. Food production in the Himalayas has not kept up with the population growth.

The major industries include processing food grains, making vegetable oil, refining sugar, and brewing beer. Fruit processing is also important. A wide variety of fruits are grown in each of the major zones of the Himalayas, and making fruit juices is a major industry in Nepal, Bhutan, and in the Indian Himalayas.

Since 1950 tourism has emerged as a major growth industry in the Himalayas. Nearly 1 million visitors come to the Himalayas each year for mountain trekking, wildlife viewing, and pilgrimages to major Hindu and Buddhist sacred places. The number of foreign visitors has increased in recent years, as organized treks to the icy summits of the Great Himalayas have become popular. While tourism is important to the local economy, it has had an adverse impact on regions where tourist numbers exceed the capacity of recreational areas.

Historically, all transport in the Himalayas has been by porters and pack animals. Porters and pack animals are still important, but the construction of major roads and the development of air routes have changed the traditional transportation pattern.

Major urban centers such as Kathmandu, Simla, and Srinagar, as well as important tourist destinations, are served by airlines. Railways link Simla and Darjiling, but in most of the Himalayas there are no railroads. The bulk of goods from the Himalayas, as well as goods destined for places within the Himalayas, generally come to Indian railheads, located in the Tarai, by road. The pack animals and porters transport goods from road heads to the interior and back.

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