Private Guiding

Gaurav offers exclusive private guiding services for select clients with specialized interests, such as specific wildlife species or unique thematic expeditions. His clients often include professional filmmakers, photographers, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) seeking a highly personalized and immersive experience. From tailored itineraries to expert insights, Gaurav ensures a private, bespoke journey, guiding his clients throughout their entire adventure. Additionally, Gaurav can arrange private experiences in remote or exotic locations with little to no existing infrastructure. He will create the necessary facilities from scratch, ensuring that you can fully enjoy these untouched, extraordinary places in comfort and exclusivity.

For a private trip with Gaurav, you can send us an email at gaurav@happyhathi.in

Past Trips

To capture ten thousand words in the blink of a moment.

Bhutan

Designed and led a ten-day spring expedition across Bhutan, climbing 1,200 to 3,900 metres through four altitude zones in pursuit of the rarest Himalayan endemics on a five-year photography quest.

Borneo

With wildlife photographer Sylvain Cordier into Borneo's dense primary rainforests, a private guiding trip dedicated to finding two of Asia's most elusive wild cats - the marbled cat and clouded leopard.

Mongolia

Led a private expedition across Mongolia, traversing endless steppe, the edge of the Gobi, and remote nomadic country in pursuit of the wildlife, landscapes, and untamed soul of Central Asia.

Botswana

Deep into Botswana's Okavango Delta and the wide, predator-rich wilderness beyond — a private safari among wild elephants, lions, leopards, and the greatest concentration of big game on the African continent.

Zimbabwe

Old Africa, undiluted. A private walking safari through Zimbabwe's wild floodplains and mopane bush, on foot among big-tusker elephants, painted dogs, and lions in Africa's most rigorously guided wilderness country.

Red Panda Expedition

Tracking red pandas through the bamboo and rhododendron understorey of Singalila, high on the Darjeeling ridge between India and Nepal, with Kanchenjunga watching quietly over the search at every dawn.

Sri Lanka

Kumana, the quiet east of Sri Lanka — a private leopard-focused safari through wild lagoons and dry-zone scrub, tracking the endemic Sri Lankan leopard far from the crowds of neighbouring Yala.

Pantanal

By boat along the Cuiabá and Três Irmãos rivers, deep in Brazil's northern Pantanal. A private jaguar-focused expedition through the world's largest wetland, the planet's most reliable big-cat country today.

Ethiopia

On Ethiopia's roof of Africa — a private expedition into the Bale and Simien highlands, tracking the world's rarest canid, the Ethiopian wolf, alongside the great cliff-edge troops of bleeding-heart geladas.

Northeastern BIrding

Birding India's wildest corner — a private expedition through Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, working the eastern Himalayan slope from Eaglenest to the Mishmi Hills in search of endemic and near-endemic species.

Documenting Amur Falcon

Documenting the falcon capital of the world — over a million Amur falcons roosting in Nagaland's Doyang valley each October en route to Africa, in one of Asia's great conservation stories.

Lion Tailed Macaque

Endemic to the evergreen Western Ghat. A private photography trip into the valleys of the Anamalai Hills in pursuit of India's most endangered primate, the iconic silver-maned lion-tailed macaque.

Satpura

Satpura, the connoisseur's central India. A private safari by jeep, boat, and on foot through a rare tiger reserve where walking is still allowed, tracking leopards, sloth bears, and gaur.

Democratic Republic Of Congo

Into eastern Congo through Virunga and Kahuzi-Biéga in search of two gorilla subspecies, the mountain gorilla and the endemic Grauer's, under the lava glow of Nyiragongo volcano.

Kenya

A classical East African, safari from the predator-rich plains of the Maasai Mara to elephant country beneath Kilimanjaro at Amboseli, sweeping across the continent's most iconic big-game landscape.

The Amazon

Into the heart of the Amazon — a private riverboat expedition along the great waterways of South America's vast rainforest, in pursuit of pink river dolphins, giant otters, and harpy eagles.

The Atlantic Forest

What remains of the Atlantic Forest — a private expedition through Brazil's vanishing coastal rainforest, in pursuit of golden lion tamarins, bare-throated bellbirds, and the endemic biodiversity of an irreplaceable ecosystem.

Peru

From Amazon canopy to Andean summit a Peruvian expedition pairing macaw clay licks, giant otters, and cock-of-the-rock leks with Sacred Valley archaeology and the stone city of Machu Picchu.

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