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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 Timings
1. 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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