Last updated: October 2026 · Method: compiled from public listings and traveller reports; treat figures as planning aids, not quotations.
Zones 6-10 extend the park beyond the historic core of the zone system.
- The extensions: Sawai Mansingh and Kundal country, on the same permit system.
- The advantage: fewer vehicles per sighting, the honest trade-off between odds and crowds.
- The wildlife is the same species list, just with thinner traffic.
The outer zones, six through ten, are the park’s expansion country, added as tourism pressure on the classic circuits grew, and the reports treat them as a second park in tone. They run through the buffer-side forest and hill country on the reserve’s edges, with lower vehicle density, genuine wilderness feel and the sighting odds that honest reporting gives any edge habitat: real, seasonal, and guide-dependent, in the frame the reputation page sets. Their reported strengths are the absence of queues, strong leopard country on the rocky stretches, and the birding the quiet rewards. Their reported cost is the distance from the park’s famous geography, the lakes and fort walls the classic zones trade on. The advice that repeats: the outer zones suit repeat visitors and the crowd-averse, and they make the zone system worth learning rather than gambling on.