Tour Duration: |
9 Nights / 10 Days |
Tour Itinerary: |
Bhopal(2N) - Satpura NP(2N) - Pachmarhi(2N) - Jabalpur (1N) - Amarkantak (2N) - Jabalpur |
Tour Theme: |
Cover the 2 UNESCO world heritage sites with some unusual naturally gifted places and sites of Central India. Enjoy heritage tourism, spirituality, wildlife, hill station stays. Experience Buddhist culture, Hinduism, Jainism, wildlife safari, boat safari, walking safari, backwater, ancient temples. |
| Day | Day Activity | Highlights | Night Stay |
| 01 | Arrival at Bhopal airport, transfer to hotel. Do local city tour. | City tour | Bhopal |
| 02 | Do full day local sightseeing tour. Cover 2 UNESCO world heritage sties. | World heritage sites visit | Bhopal |
| 03 | After breakfast, drive to Satpura national park. Attend evening safari. | Safari & Photography | Satpura NP |
| 04 | Do morning and evening safari. | Safari & Photography | Satpura NP |
| 05 | After breakfast, drive to Pachmarhi. Do half-day local sightseeing. | Natural hill sites visit | Pachmarhi |
| 06 | Do full-day sightseeing by jeep. | Hills & forest visit | Pachmarhi |
| 07 | After breakfast, drive to Jabalpur. Enroute lunch and visit to Bhedaghat. | Boating & Narmada Arti | Jabalpur |
| 08 | After breakfast, do half-day Jabalpur city tour and later drive to Amarkantak. | Coloinial sites visit | Amarkantak |
| 09 | After breakfast, do full-day local visit in Amarkantak. | Temples & hill sites visit | Amarkantak |
| 10 | After breakfast, drive to Raipur or Jabalpur airport, for departure. | Cab transfer | -- |
| PLANNING INFORMATION | |||
| Tour Season | October to June | Best time to visit | Oct to April |
| 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 | Moderate | ||
| When to book | Book 60-80 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. | ||
Our tour will begin with your arrival at Bhopal airport or railway station. Our cab will report before arrival time and wait for your arrival. Once pickup is done, we will drive to our hotel. Do the check-in and freshen up. After some relaxation, if time permits, do the local visit. In this day visit to city museums like Tribal museum. It remains open from 12:00 noon to 08:00 PM (Monday closed). They are vast and visit takes time thus we may visit only one of them at a time. If not interested in museum visit, then we may do short excursion for Bhojpur temple or may spend our time in lakeside area.
Overnight at hotel in Bhopal
In this day, we will first visit famous UNESCO world heritage site i.e. Sanchi Stupa park. It is approx. 55km away from main city thus it will take approx. 1hr to reach. Here we will explore the great Buddhist heritage site with collection of many Stupas of different sizes and their story telling gateways.We will cover it in post breakfast session. Later on drive back to our hotel and take lunch. Later drive to Bhimbetka rock shelters. It is again outside city, at south-east direction. It is a UNESCO world heritage site, located at Ratapani tiger reserve area. It is a natural site with huge rocks, at hill tip, visible from 10-15 km. Here we will find ancient rock paintings. Later drive back to hotel in Bhopal.
Overnight at hotel in Bhopal
After breakfast, drive to Satpura national park, located in south-east direction. It is a scenic dense forest spread over Satpura range which offers shelter to many wildlife species. After taking lunch, we will do the evening jungle safari. Satpura forest is natural habitat for many popular wildlife species like Tigers, Leopards. Sloth Bear, Indian Gaur, Barking Deer, Spotted Deer, Sambar Deer, Indian Giant Squirrel, Flying Squirrel, Black Buck, Wild Dogs etc. Doing jeep safari will be a great experience and will offer many opportunities for good wildlife photography shots.
Overnight at resort in Satpura NP
Do morning and evening safaris. Satpura tiger reserve is one of the best Central India park for sloth bears, leopards, giant squirrel, tigers. Here safari activities are mainly concentrated through Madhai gate and Bheemkund gate. As per ongoing tiger sighting information, we will choose the most happening safari zones and conduct the safari activities. Here safaris are conducted in 2 rounds i.e. morning safari round and afternoon or evening safari round. Due to restriction of mobile phones in safaris, please carry your own camera for photography purpose.
Overnight at resort in Satpura NP.
After breakfast, drive to neighboring hill station Pachmarhi. It is basically part of Satpura tiger reserve thus surrounded by dense hilly forest and valleys. It was a one time hidden tribal village about which rest of the world were unaware. During expedition trip, it was visited by British Officer Captain James Forsyth, in 1962 and thus introduced to the world thus it is a popular name in this region. At the same time, Pachmarhi region forest was the same area about which we study in the popular book "The Lonely Tiger" by Allen Huges. At Pachmarhi, we will do the visit to local sightseeing points. These points are basically natural sites, associated with Hindu gods and godess, mythological believes and associated by old dieties.
Overnight at resort in Pachmarhi
On 6th day of tour package, we will do full-day sightseeing of Pachmarhi. In this day, we will use jeep vehicle to cover all major forest area points and non-forest area points. For forest area points, only registered jeep vehicles are used thus its hiring is necessary for sightseeing. We will cover some popular points like Reechgarh, Dhoopgarh, Handi Khoh, Apsara fall, Duchess fall, Pandav caves, Bee-fall etc. For this sightseeing, visitors need to do lot of walking thus good physical fittness is expected. If you are not able to undertake rigrous walk, avoid hard-work points.
Overnight at resort in Pachmarhi
After Pachmarhi visit, get ready for Jabalpur trip. On completion of breakfast, drive to Jabalpur on west direction. Traveling on this route is basically going parallel to Satpura range and Narmada river in which we will notice the fertile land with some fatory setups. As this route land is fertile thus it is popular for good sugarcane cultivation and thus we may find many local vehicles loaded with sugarcane crops and industrial setups are sugar factories. Just before reaching Jabalpur city, we will cover world famous marble rock site i.e. Bhedaghat destination. Here we will do boating, ropeway ride and temple visit. Later drive to our hotel in Jabalpur city. At evening, attend Narmada arti and do city visit.
Overnight at hotel in Jabalpur.
Begin the day with morning breakfast. After breakfast, do check-out process so that we can devote rest of the time for city tour, no tension of doing check-out process. We will explore the city with many historical points which will take us back to history of Gond dynasty, Kalchuri dynasty era and British India colonial period. We will cover places like Rani Durgavati museum (Monday closed), Thugs execution point, Ghantaghar towe or victory tower, War memorial point etc. Later in post lunch session, we will drive to Amarkantak, at west direction. This will again an interesting journey as it will offer you drive
Overnight at hotel in Amarkantak.
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This will be the last day of tour package thus we will have relaxed morning. After breakfast, wind up your luggage and drove to nearby railway station or airport, for departure.
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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 |
| Bhopal | The Fern Residency | Jehan Nuna Palace | Radisson Bhopal, Taj Lakefront, Jehan Numa Retreat | CPAI, MAPAI, APAI |
| Satpura National Park | MPT Bison Resort | The Forest Chapter | Denwa Backwater Escape, Reni Pani Jungle Lodge | APAI |
| Pachmarhi | MPT Highlands | MPT Champak Bungalow. MPT Glen View Resort | -- | MAPAI, APAI |
| Jabalpur | MPT Kalchuri Residency, Rishi Regency | Narmada Jacksons | Hilton Garden Inn, ITC Welcom Jabalpur | CPAI, MAPAI, APAI |
| Amarkantak | MPT Holiday Homes | -- | -- | 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 |
| Kanha National Park | 150 km | Popular wildlife safari & photography destination |
| Bandhavgarh National Park | 170 km | Popular wildlife safari & photography 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.
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