Tour Duration: |
6 Nights / 7 Days |
Tour Itinerary: |
Raipur - Kanha National Park - Pench National Park - Nagpur |
Tour Theme: |
Tour covers two most scenic tiger reserves of Central India, offering great opportunity for varying wildlife species sighting, tiger photography, birding experience |
| Day | Day Activity | Highlights | Night Stay |
| 01 | Arrival at Raipur or Jabalpur airport, transfer to Kanha national park. | Cab transfer | Kanha NP |
| 02 | Do morning and evening jeep safaris. | Safari & photography | Kanha NP |
| 03 | Do morning and evening jeep safaris. | Safari & photography | Kanha NP |
| 04 | Do morning safari and later drive to Pench NP. | Safari & cab transfer | Pench NP |
| 05 | Do morning and evening jeep safaris. | Safari & photography | Pench NP |
| 06 | Do morning and evening jeep safaris. | Safari & photography | Pench NP |
| 07 | If time permits, do morning safari and later drive to Nagpur airport for departure. | Safari & cab transfer | -- |
| PLANNING INFORMATION | |||
| Tour Season | October to June | Best time to visit | Feb to June |
| Age Group | No age restriction. Good for visitors ranging from 05 to 75 years age, as per travel fitness. | ||
| Physical fitness required | Low to moderate | ||
| Tour Pace | It has a fast tour pace in guest will remain busy with safaris and transfers. | ||
| When to book | Book 140 Days in advance. It is a very important step that a guest can take for the success of its own trip. Advance booking is highly recommended when you have any wildlife safari destination in your tour plan. Similarly, in city areas, due to marriage or corporate conferences, many times popular hotels get sold out in advance due to which tour quality get compromised. Thus we repeatedly highlight this point. | ||
For reaching Kanha national park, choose your suitable airport option. Here Jabalpur airport and Raipur airport will be most suitable options. On arrival at airport, our cab will take you to your pre-booked resort at Kanha national park. Enjoy enroute countryside views, local village life glimpses, landscapes and vegetation. In this day, just relax at your resort and enjoy the campus area. Do preparations for next day morning jeep safari drive.
Overnight at Kanha national park.
In this day, we will formally begins jungle safaris. Do morning & evening jeep safaris, on this day of tour package. Here jeeps safaris are operated in 2 slots i.e. morning round of approx. 5:30 hr and afternoon or evening safari of approx. 3:00 hr duration. Which means in this day we will spend approx. 08:00 hrs in exploring Kanha tiger reserve forest. During both the safari rounds, we have to carry our original ID documents (for foreigners, only active Passport is treated as ID document), for verification purpose and immeditely returned to guests. Here our resort will provide you water bottles and pack breakfast for morning safari round. For pack breakfast, we have to specify the resort front office team about our meal preference. Due to long morning safari duration, pack breakfast is worth to carry and consume. Due to mobile phone prohibition, during safari activity all visitors are advised to carry your own camera, for photography purpose. Forest of Kanha national park is spread over Satpura range and is full of amazing wildlife species like tigers, leopard, sloth bear, hard-ground Barasingha, Indian guar to various bird species. Here hard-ground Barasingha will be special attraction because this species is not found in Pench tiger reserve. Some of the easily seen birds are racket-tailed drongo, black drongo, crested serpent eagle, grey hornbill, black ibis, purple sunbird, jungle owlet, grey nightjar, Indian roller etc.
Overnight at Kanha national park.
Here we will do morning and evening safaris. Take your morning tea, pack breakfast, Id document, camera and board your safari vehicle. Early morning phase of jungle safari drive is purely dedicated for tiger tracking thus during morning rush, guides overlook other animals and devote their attention towards tiger tracking. Their are many ways to track the tiger location like update of last sighting location, discussion with passing by safari guides, pugmark tracking, alarm calls and their sixth sense. It is possible that in rush for tigers, we may have to compromise some other photography moments. Here our preference matters. If we are not tiger centric then don't miss any chance and keep on doing photography. Just remember that forest can give us surprise at any moment, without any hint thus always remain alert and active with camera. Such incidents happens with mostly leopard sighting, flying squirrel sighting etc. In middle phase of safari, we can try all type of photography like birds photography, insects photography, reptiles photography etc. Although guide is expert still during safari we also required to remain vigilant as it is possible that something may get missed by guide and driver and we will spot it. At any point of photography, we must need to immediately inform driver to stop the vehicle, for photography.
Overnight at Kanha national park
Do morning safari at Kanha national park. On completion of morning safari, we need to quickly do the check-out and drive to Pench national park. This will be approx. 04:00 hrs long drive thus if we leave on time then we have the possibility to catch the lunch, before it gets over. At evening hours, we will just relax, take round of resort campus and do preparations for next morning safari drive. Night safaris are closed thus we will not add any jungle safari for evening hours.
Overnight at Pench national park.
On 5th day of our tour package, we will begin the morning and evening safaris. This forest cover is spread over Satpura range. It got its name Pench derived from Pench river which passes through this forest. It is a tropical dry and moist deciduous forest with dominance of teak trees. Another important introduction of this forest is its association with Rudyard Kipling's classic "The Jungle Book". It is believed that topography and animals description given in this book is inspired from this forest. Main character Mogli (The jungle boy) is also inspired from real life similar character, captured from Amodagarh region of this forest. Here promiment safari attractions are Leopards, Tigers, Sloth Bear, Spotted Deer, Indian Gaur, Jackals, Sambar Deer etc. This forest is also a great place for birds photography thus scan all the parts of forest, during your jeep safaris. We will try to cover different safari zones to majority of forest area and explore its beauty. For this we should must confirm in advance so that we can timely book the planned safari zones.
Overnight at Pench national park.
Do morning and evening safaris.
Overnight at Pench national park.
This will be our last day of tour package. If time permits, we will do morning safari and later drop to Nagpur airport. O
Here we have shared the popular stay options we will consider for our guests. As per the requirement and budget of guests, we can do the adjustments and arrange these hotels or resorts to ensure a good stay experience.
| Destination | Standard | Deluxe | Luxury | Possible Meal Plans |
| Kanha National Park | MPT Baghira Jungle Resort / Aranyak Kanha / MPT Safari Lodge Mukki | Chitvan Jungle Lodge | Kanha Earth Lodge / Kanha Jungle Camp / Singinawa Jungle Lodge | APAI |
| Pench National Park | MPT Kipling Court / Aranyak Pench | Pench Jungle Camp | Taj Baghvan Safari Lodge / Pench Tree Lodge | APAI |
| EPAI = Accommodation + Taxes CPAI = EPAI + Breakfast MAPAI = CPAI + Lunch / Dinner APAI = CPAI + Lunch + Dinner |
Approx timings: City Hotels: Check-in = 13:00 hrs & Check-out = 11:00 hrs Jungle Resorts : Check-in = 14:00 hrs & Check-out = 12:00 hrs |
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| Destination | Distance | Description |
| Satpura National Park (3N) | 300 km | Popular for wildlife safaris & photography |
| Tadoba National Park (3N) | 250 km | Popular tiger safari destination |
Here we have shared some important notes for guests, which are related to the given tour plan.
Here we have shared some important notes for guests, which are related to the given tour plan.
| Tour Related Links | ||
| How to reach Kanha national park | Best time to visit Kanha NP | Kanha safari timing |








