Panna Night Safari

Introduction

Panna national park

Night safari at Panna national park is worth to do activity. For first time night safari visitors, it will be a totally different experience. At departmental level, it is popularly mentioned as night partrol safari. Here we have shared some vital safari information about the night safari option. At Panna national park it is operated on daily basis. Night patrol safari is offered at buffer safari zones only thus we need to be very clear that we are not going to visit any core safari zones. It safari timing is decided by park management team and start after sunset for 2-3 hrs duration. As sunset timing changes from month to month thus we will find that night safari timing also changes almost every month as per sunset timing. There are many wildlife species which exist in the tiger reserve but mostly not seen or photographed in day safaris thus night safari offers great opportunity to see and photograph those unseen nocturnal wildlife species. 

Features of Night Safari

We should must know the night safari features at Panna national park. Lets read them, one by one.

  • Night safari is always offered in buffer zone. Thus forget about core zone.
  • Night safari is always offered on non-sharing basis.
  • Night safari starts after the end of afternoon safari.
  • Night safari is always cheaper than day safaris.
  • Night safaris can be booked offline, from ticket counter, on same date.
     

Is it worth to do Night Safari ?

If you are visiting Panna national park for tigers only then you may not go for night patrol safari option but if you would like to see the forest area beyond tigers then we highly recommend to attend at least one night safari. By doing this safari we will get many new safari experiences like how animals are tracked in dark, how safari guides to animal tracking, what precautions safari driver takes during night safari, which new species we can discover during night safari and how to capture night safari moments. For so many new safari experiences, one should must try to attend at least one night safari drive in Panna national park.

Which species can be see in Night Safari ?

At Panna national park, we can do night safari at Jinna zone and Akola zone. Both the safari zones are falling under buffer zone forest thus passing through village areas is very common. During night safari of Jinna zone, which is most popular for this safari, we can expect to see wildlife species like leopard, sloth bear, hyena, civet cat, porcupine, jungle cat. Similarly if you will visit Akola zone then we can expect sighting of hyena, tiger, sloth bear, nilgai, wolf etc.