Bandhavgarh national park is a popular tourism destination for nature lovers and wildlife photographers. Here we can enjoy many different tourism activities in which some of them are accessible to all and they are offered by park management like jeep safaris, night safari etc. Certain tourism activities are resort specific and accessible to the resort or lodge guests like nature walks, village visit, sundowner shows, bird watching, butterfly watching, cooking activities etc. Thus here tourists have many tourism activity options do to and according to there budget and preferences, they can enjoy there preferred activities.
As Bandhavgarh is a popular tiger reserve thus jungle safari is the prime objective behind the trip. Here we can find variations in safari activities like tourists can do morning, afternoon and night safaris. It means we have 3 safari options. Here forest areas are divided into core and buffer zones. These are the two important categories of forest which describes the forest penetration level by tourists. These core forest and buffer forests are further diveded into zones thus we can do one safari at one zone at a time. Here safari vehicles are canter (open bus) and jeep and they are at different price level with different accessibility permission. These safari zones accessibility also varies like some are open throughout the year while some are open for certain months only. Here sharing and non-sharing safari options are offered with different applicable rules thus we should must understand them before choosing our option.
| Safari Zones | Category | Open for Safaris | Travel Slots | Sharing / Non-sharing options |
| Tala Zone | Core Forest | Oct to June | Morning and Afternoon | Sharing & Non-sharing both |
| Magadhi Zone | Core Forest | Oct to June | Morning and Afternoon | Sharing & Non-sharing both |
| Khitauli Zone | Core Forest | Oct to June | Morning and Afternoon | Sharing & Non-sharing both |
| Dhamokhar Zone | Buffer Forest | All 12 months | Morning, Afternoon, Night | Only non-sharing |
| Panpatha Zone | Buffer Forest | All 12 months | Morning, Afternoon, Night | Only non-sharing |
| Johilla Zone | Buffer Forest | All 12 months | Morning, Afternoon, Night | Only non-sharing |
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