Rural Tourism

Rural tourism = participating in a rural lifestyle. A variant of Eco-Tourism.

This place is a good option for one day outing or weekend stay.

Chhoti Haldwani / Jim Corbett Village is a small village in the foothills of Kumaon region of Uttarakhand (formely Uttaranchal).

Whts there:

Bird Watching :) Enjoy Bird singing and....yeah..watch them too.

Heritage Trail :) Enjoy heritage fully filled with village experience.

Forest Trail :) See the Jungle of Himalaya foothill. Don't scare its not wild wild, Its soothing to soul.

About Chhoti Haldwani / Jim Corbett Village:

This village was once owned by the famous hunter turned conservationist of British India, the Jim Corbett. Popularly called as 'Carpet Sahib' by the villagers.

He bought the small hamlet of 221 acres, Chhoti Haldwani in 1915 in Rs. 1500.00 to develop it into a model village and settled some forty tenants there. Jim Corbett had his summer house here.

About Jim Corbett:

Edward James "Jim" Corbett (25 July 1875 in Nainital, India – 19 April 1955 in Nyeri, Kenya) was a British hunter, conservationist, author and naturalist, famous for slaying a large number of man-eating tigers and leopards in India.

He has many books to his credit, including ‘The Maneaters of Kumaon’.

Corbett held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the government of the United Provinces, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to slay man-eating tigers and leopards that had killed people in the villages of the Garhwal and Kumaon region. His success in slaying the man-eaters earned him much respect and fame amongst the people residing in the villages of Kumaon,  many of whom considered him a sadhu  (saint).

Visiting this place is a treat itself and tribute to Great Jim Corbett.