A country with a thousand faces, enveloping the Western visitor with new stimuli, new sounds, new smells, and new images. Discovering landscapes from "Thousands and One Nights", reaching the immense shrines of South India, staying in the princely palaces of Rajasthan, exploring jungles or simply admiring the Himalayan massif, are some of the things you can do in India. From north to south India offers colorful markets, Benares (Hindu pilgrimage destinations), magnificent sanctuary cities, rural villages, lush landscapes, green rice paddies, palm forests and the thousand-year-old tradition of Ayurvedic medicine. In India, since 1972, the "Tiger Project" for the conservation of the Bengal Tiger has been active in many National Parks. The largest is Ranthambore Park in Rajasthan, which together with the Khana and Bandavgarh National Parks in central India are populated by numerous species of birds, large mammals and reptiles.