Satpura national park core zones like Madhai zone, Bheemkund zone etc are open for tourists from October to June months. Here buffer zones like Jamani Dev zone, Parsapani zone etc. are open throughout the year. Majority of tourists prefer to visit this destination within this period when core zones are operations. Reason behind this trend is simple that tiger sighting probability remains high during this period and climatic conditions are also fit for undertaking tours. Here best time to visit Satpura national park varies from visitor to visitor, visit purpose to purpose. Tourists are visiting with different objectives like local tourists are visiting for leisure reasons, to spend good time with family members and friends. Wildlife photographer groups are undertaking tours with expectation to have good wildlife photography. Some of the visitors are covering this national park as one of the safari destination in their long duration trip in which they will be covering multiple destinations thus it is just another destination for them. One more category is of group travelers from corporate offices or schools or from some social organizations. For different categories of visitors, best time varies as per their requirements. Lets analyze them one by one.
At Satpura national park, period of February to mid of June month is considered very good for tiger safaris thus ideal period for wildlife photography. This is the time when winters will be going and summers season will prevail. Till this period, forests will get some dryness thus our visibility to surrounding forest will be good, animals movement will be more during day safari time. Backwater of Madhai zone remain in good shape thus boat safaris will give better opportunity of birds photography, mugger (crocodile) photography and tigers may also be seen on river banks. Flowering and fruits by Feb end till April attracts more sloth bears thus bear photography opportunity will also be good. Just do your safaris booking in advance.
In this category, we mostly find nearby city visitors like Indore, Bhopal, Nagpur, Itarsi and holiday visitors from other cities of India. Their main purpose is have good time with family members and friends. Their planning is mainly based as per availability of some safari options, good climatic condition and government holidays. Thus they prefer weekends and holiday dates. For them best time to visit are Oct-Nov-Dec months when majority of Indian festivals like Durga Puja, Dussehra, Diwali, Christmas, New Year week falls and core zones get opened. Till this time, monsoon have also gone thus climatic conditions will be favorable for undertaking tours. This period will not be too hot thu visitors may find lush green forest, plenty of backwater for good boat safaris, canoeing activity.
Group visits are mostly from schools, collection of families and from corporate organizations. For school students, such visits could be part of educational tour or an holiday activity. Corporate organizations often undertake such trips to refresh their team members, after completion of financial year, achievement of their official targets and incentives to their business customers. When group is of families, they undertake when they have holidays and climatic conditions will be favorable. These groups mostly avoids high seasons dates due to increased hotel prices and unavailability of good safari zones. For such visitors, period from March to May is considered as the best time to visit. With the end of March, corporate offices enters into new finalcial year and free from financial duties thus they do their plannings. Due to summer holidays in schools, family members feel free to undtake their travel plans. At the same time, schools also plans for some summer holiday trips. Till this time, leisure visitors counts also falls due to increasing temperature thus hotels were also in position to concentrate on group tour offers.
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