Tour Duration: |
6 Nights / 7 Days |
Tour Itinerary: |
Gwalior (1N) - Panna National Park (5N) - Gwalior |
Tour Theme: |
Safari holiday at Panna tiger reserve. Enjoy sighting of rocky cliffs, waterfalls, vultures, tigers, sloth bear, jungle cat, leopard. Good chance for wildlife photography. |
Day | Day Activity | Highlights | Night Stay |
01 | Arrival at Gwalior airport, transfer to hotel. Attend evening sound and light show. | Gwalior | |
02 | After morning breakfast, drive to Panna national park. Do evening safari. | Panna NP | |
03 | Do morning and evening safari. | Panna NP | |
04 | Do morning and night safari. | Panna NP | |
05 | Do morning and evening safari. | Panna NP | |
06 | Do morning safari and afternoon visit to Khajuraho temples. | Panna NP | |
07 | After breakfast, drive to Gwalior airport for departure. |
PLANNING INFORMATION | |||
Tour Season | November 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 | Moderate fitness required. Tour involves some walking at Gwalior and Khajuraho sightseeing. | ||
Tour Pace | Medium. Day 04 and Day 05 will be slightly relaxing for guest. | ||
When to book | Book 0 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. |
On arrival at Gwalior airport, transfer to city hotel. After relax and lunch, we will utilize the day with some local sightseeing. Here we may do Gwalior fort visit and attend its sound and light show program to better understand its history
Overnight at Gwalior city hotel.
After breakfast, drive to Panna national park. Here we will drive through popular Bundelkhand expressway thus this will be a continous drive with a tea break. While driving through this route, we will get interesting views of Bundelkhand region, local lifestyle of people, village housing pattern. More or less this will be seen as dry and rocky region with tough life and struggle for survival but ancient building art will be more prevalent in the form of old palaces, forts, temples etc. On reaching our resort at Panna national park, we will settle down at our room, do freshen up and do the necessary preparations for afternoon jungle safari drive. For safari preparations, we need to recheck our safari permit details, safari timing, arrange your ID document, carry it during every safari drive, for verification purpose. Check the status of camera battery, memory cards, charge your mobile phone etc. This we will do before lunch because we will get less time after taking lunch. Try to avoid heavy lunch as we have to rush for afternoon safari drive. Heavy meal often results into drowsiness during jeep safari drive. During safaris, always remain alert and ready with your camera as many times action happens suddenly and for few seconds thus golden rule is to always remain in ready to click status.
Overnight at Panna national park.
Do morning and evening jeep safari drives.
Overnight at Panna national park.
In this day, we will do morning safari and attend night safari. Here we need to note the fact that on every Wednesday, Panna national park will remain closed for evening safari drive in core zones. Thus we will use night safari slot for Wednesday. Thus if Wednesday will fall on our Day 2 or 3 or 4, we will utilize the time through night safari drive. Here one night safari drive is worth to undertake. It is most done of nearby Jinna safari zone which is good for night safaris and often results into sightings of animals who do night movements like leopards, jungle cat, sloth bear, hyena, Indian hare etc. During night safaris, videography proves better than photography. Here sighting duration will be very short as all sighting depends on the light on safari vehicle or torch.
Overnight at Panna natioanl park.
Do morning and evening safari.
Overnight at Panna national park.
Do morning safari drive as the last one of this tour package. Later, after taking lunch, we will proceed to Khajuraho and undertake the temples visit. These temples were magnificent example of sculpture art on yellow sand-stones, during the rule of Chandela rulers. These temples were developed during 08-10th centuries and due to their sculpture art, they were rewarded with name in UNESCO world heritage site. This its visit and photography will add more stars in our photography tour. Later, do some shopping of sovenirs, in interested and back to our resort.
Overnight at Panna national park.
This will be the last day of our tour package. After breakfast, we will do the check-out and drive towards Gwalior airport. Here guest have option to use Jabalpur airport (05:00 hr) also, if flight connectivity and timings suits them.
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 |
Gwalior | MPT Tansen Resdency | Park Inn by Radisson | Deo Bagh Heritage hotel / Radisson Hotel / Taj Usha Kiran Palace hotel | CPAI, MAPAI, APAI |
Panna National Park | MPT Jungle Camp | Ken River Lodge | Taj Pashangarh Lodge, Tendu Leaf Resort, Sarai at Toria | 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 |
Destination | Distance | Description |
Orchha | 130 km from Gwalior (in between Gwalior and Panna NP) | Scenic small destination with fort, palace, temples, river bank |
Bandhavgarh NP | 230 km from Panna National Park | Popular tiger safari destination |
Jabalpur | 250 km from Panna National Park | Popular river bank city with marble rock boating destination, Colonial history, Narmada Arti attraction |
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 | ||
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