Kanha National Park
Rudyard Kipling:- British author and Nobel Laureate, set his tales of
the boy brought up by wolves in the Jungle of Kanha
National Park in 'The Jungle Book'.
The Kanha National Park is unique and we can compare as we visited lots of NP in US, Uganda, Kenia, Namibia and other. This park offers a fantastic variety of landscape : grassland, dense forest, small lakes, rockies hills. We made 9 game-drives and we saw tigers at 6 of them, including a tigeres with her 4 cubs. We missed seeing a leopard and a sloth bear, but in fact, viewing the tigers from so close (sometimes 10m from our open jeep) was more then we ever expected. If you go there, ask for Arun Kumar Yadav to be your driver, he is just the best in finding the tigers. I also want to recommend our travel agent vishal from 'Indian Excursion' ( info@travelcentralindia.com ) who prepared & organized this private tour for us. It was just perfectly done. During the tour, vishal called us at least 3 times to check if everything was ok. He was just pampering us. Great !
Gerrit Lachaert
Nossegem, Belgium
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There are approx 131 Tigers in Kanha National Park
Safaris in Kanha National Park
It was a magic, heart stopping moment! Absolutely wonderful when we first saw the Tiger in Kanha.
Jennie & David from Australia did the safari in Kanha in December 2009, it’s the diary written by Jennie Thomas sharing her experiences in Kanha National Park.
Breaking News from Jennie 13 December 2009
Not one, not two, not three BUT FOUR TIGERS today... and I got to see them from the back of an elephant. They were all the thirteen month old cubs of what must be a wonderful mother tiger because they were all large and healthy. They don't hunt for themselves until they are 20 mths old. I've also had a great massage this afternoon. So what's in store for tomorrow!! Who knows but I'll tell you when it happens.
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Kanha National park is located in the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh and it extends over an area of over 1,940-sq-kms.
The major feature of this region's interesting topography is the horseshoe shape valley and the whole park area is surrounded by the spurs of the Mekal.
By a special statue in 1955, Kanha national park came into being since then, a series of stringent conservation programmes for the protection of the park’s flora and fauna has given Kanha its deserved reputation for being one of the finest and best administered national parks in Asia, an irresistible attraction for all wild life lovers a true haven for its animal and avian population.
Kanha national park has 22 species of mammals. Those most easily spotted are TIGER, Indian hare, Indian wild dog, the Stripped Palm Squirrel, Common langur, Jackal, Wild Pig, Chital or Spotless deer, Barasingha or Swamp deer, Sambar and black Buck.
Patient watching should reward the visitor, with a sight of Indian Fox, Sloth bear, Striped hyena, Jungle cut, Lepord, Mouse Deer, Chausingha or four horned antelope, Nilgai, Ratel and Porcupine.
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 Avian Species: Kanha National Park has some 200 species of birds. Watchers should station
themselves in the hills, where the mixed and bamboo forests harbour many
species and in the grassy forest clearings. Water birds can be seen near the
park’s many rivulets and at Sarvantal, a pool that is frequented by water birds and the area in front of the museum.
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Kanha’s Sal and Bamboo forest ,rolling grasslands and  meandering stream stretch over the 940 km. The abundance and wild life species in Kanha national park, forms the core of the Kanha tiger reserve created in1974 under project tiger. The park is only habitat of the rare hard grounder Barasingha.
(Cervus Duvaceli Branderi). In 1930s, the Kanha area was divided into two santuaries; Hallon and Banjar of 250kms to 300kms each. Though one of these was subsequently disbanded .The area remained a protected one until 1947. Depletion of the tiger population in the year that followed led to the area being made an absolute sanctuary in 1952.
Information Center:
How to Reach Kanha National Park:
By Air: Jabalpur at 200 -kms is the nearest airport connected directly with New Delhi and Mumbai airport to visit Kanha National
Park.
Rail: Jabalpur at 175-kms is the convenient rail head to visit Kanha.
Road: Kanha National Park is connected by road with Jabalpur 175-kms, Khajuraho 445-kms, Nagpur 266-kms,
Raipur 219-kms. Within the park: Koshi - Kanha (9-kms), Kishi - Katia (4-kms), Kishi - Mukki (32-kms).
There are regular to and fro bus service available from Jabalpur to Kanha.
Best Season to Visit Kanha National Park: February to June although cool season (October to February) is much more comfortable and still very good for
wildlife. The park is closed from July 01 to October 01 because of the monsoon.
Park Visit Timings1. 15 November to 15 February - Sunrise to 12.00 noon and 3.00 pm to Sunset.
2. 16 February to 30 April - Sunrise to 1200 noon and 4.00 pm to Sunset.
3. 1 May to 30 June - Sunrise to 11.00 am and 5.00 pm to Sunset. |
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