Panna national park is part of Panna tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh state. It is located in northern region of state. This national park is counted among must visit safari destinations under Madhya Pradesh tourism. As we all know that Central India region is specially popular for tiger safaris thus Panna forest also one of the important tiger safari destination of incredible Madhya Pradesh and attracts large number of wildlife photographers. Its core safari zones are open from October to June month which means we can do jeep safari in core zones, during this period.
As mentioned above, Panna national park core zones are open for tourists, from October to June month. It is a rocky region of Vindhya mountain range, with presence of many gorges which provides shelter and breeding ground for different vulture species. Here majority of tourism has been experienced in period of November to March period. After March month, due to summers, here temperature rises rapidly, after sunrise thus due to excessive heat in atmosphere tourists often feel challenging in doing jungle safaris for complete safari duration. Similarly due to rocky region and plateau geographical formation, here natural waterholes are very limited and Ken river plays main role as water source. Thus here tourists don't get the advantage of searching around waterholes and get the tiger sighting in early morning hours or late evening hours, as we do in near by national parks like Bandhavgarh or Kanha national park or Pench national park. Thus in peak summers, tiger sighting remains normal at the same time heat waves and high temperature poses challenge thus tourism decreases. So with this discussion we can say that best time to visit Panna national park is from November to March months.
This tiger reserve is special in Central India region. Here we can't say that for high probability of tiger sighting, visit on summers. As per last 5 year trends, here tourists enjoy healthy tiger sighting opportunities, throughout the safari season of core zones, i.e. from October to June. So those who are willing to explore Madhya Pradesh national parks in post monsoon period or during winters, with expectation to have good tiger photography experience, they can try to visit Panna national park.
If you are in Central India region for Sloth Bear safaris, then we recommend few tiger reserves like Satpura tiger reserve and Panna tiger reserve to have better chance for bear safaris. Although sloth bears have presence in almost all the national parks of Central India but sighting probability is average. At Satpura national park and Panna national park, we will have better chance to see their wild activities. Here best time is from Feb-April months. During this period, we will find them actively roaming in forests, many times with babies on back or busy in digging the termite mounds.
Panna tiger reserve and its surrounding areas have healthy population vultures. Even if we study the vultures population at different areas of Madhya Pradesh, we will realize that their population is healthy in Malwa and Bundelkhand regions. During winters, due to addition of winter visitor vultures, tourists get good chance to see the variations in vulture sighting thus we can say that period of November to March is good for vultures sighting at Panna tiger reserve. Even if you will be visiting Orchha, which is around 180 kms from Panna national park, we will notice good population, during forts and palace sighting. This shows that Bundelkhand region have high density of vultures.
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