Tour Duration: |
6 Nights / 7 Days |
Tour Itinerary: |
Gwalior (1N) - Panna National Park (4N) - Jabalpur (1N) |
Tour Theme: |
Panna photography safari tour. Start from Gwalior fort visit, do tiger safaris in Panna forest and experience boating through 65 million years old marble rocks, at the end of the tour. |
| Day | Day Activity | Highlights | Night Stay |
| 01 | Arrival at Gwalior airport, transfer to hotel. Attend evening sound and light show. | Watch sound & light show, fort visit. | Gwalior |
| 02 | After morning breakfast, drive to Panna national park. Do evening safari. | Cab journey & jeep safari | Panna NP |
| 03 | Do morning and evening safari. | Safari & Photography | Panna NP |
| 04 | Do morning and night safari. | Safari & Photography | Panna NP |
| 05 | Do morning and evening safari. | Safari & Photography | Panna NP |
| 06 | After breakfast, drive to Jabalpur. Do Bhedaghat visit for owls and marble rocks. | Cab journey & marble rocks boating | Jabalpur |
| 07 | After breakfast, if time permits, do Jabalpur city tour and later drop to Jabalpur airport. | City tour & 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 Jabalpur sightseeing. | ||
| Tour Pace | Medium. Day 04 and Day 05 will be slightly relaxing for guest. | ||
| When to book | Book 120 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.
In this day of tour, we will take morning breakfast and drive to Jabalpur city on southern direction. This will be a journey from Bundelkhand region to Mahakoshal region thus we will notice the geographical change, from dry forest to well irrigated region with more greenery, more population density and urbanization. We will drive straight to Bhedaghat. It is approxl 25km away from Jabalpur city, popular for its marble rocks, through which oldest river of India i.e. Narmada river passes through. Here boating through marble rocks canyon is the major attraction. This canyon is narrow with presence of Rock Eagle Owl, Egyptian Vultures, Barn Owl and some other seasonal birds. We will do boatride in evening hour which is good to see birds movement. If we will have time in spare then we will attend evening Narmada arti else take rest at Jabalpur city hotel.
Overnight at Jabalpur city hotel.
This will be the last day of our tour package. After breakfast, we will see if we have 2-3 hrs in hand, we will do some city tour or shopping and later drop to Jabalpur airport or railway station.
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 |
| Jabalpur | MPT Kalchuri Residency | Narmada Jacksons | ITC Welcom Jabalpur / Hilton Garden Inn | CPAI, MAPAI, 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 |
| 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 |
| Khajuraho | 30 km from Panna National Park | Popular stone carved temples of 9 -11th century |
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 | ||
| Core vs Buffer zone safaris | Safari Planning | Panna Safari Timings |
| Sharing vs Non-sharing safaris | Safari Dress Code | Bhedaghat |








