Tour Summary

Detailed Itinerary

Day 01: Arrival

On arrival at Jabalpur airport, our representative will meet you. After a cup of coffee and light snacks, drive to Panna national park. This will be 250kms/05:00 hrs long drive in north-east direction. Due to long drive, on reaching your resort, just relax in this day and do preparations for next day early morning safari drive.
Overnight at Panna national park.

Day 02:

Do morning & evening jungle safari in Panna national park. Here jeep safari is the most common way to explore the forest. Here we will not find canter vehicles. At Panna national park, we will find it more rocky and dry region. Here landscape is in flat-top plateau format. In this dry region, nightjar bird sighting is very common on ground in a camouflaged way. Here tiger tracking will be based on jungle calls and inter-personal networking between different jeep guides. Pugmark based tracking is difficult due to rocky surface. Thus here we will notice that duration of time on waiting for some tiger movement is slightly more thus guest is expected to have more patient. Due to negligible undergrowth and negligible bushes, tiger sighting duration is better than other national parks.
Overnight at Panna national park.

Day 03:

In Day 03 of our tour package, we will continue do morning jeep safari drives. Here we will not do afternoon safari so that we will relax and undertake night patrol safari drive. Night safaris are usually not so worth but we recommend to undertake it once at Panna national park. It is a approx. 02:30 hrs long drive which offers different experience to see the night life of this forest. At Panna national park Jinna zone night safari is worth to undertake as it offers good chance for sloth bear, leopard, civet, jungle cat, jungle hare sighting. Don't expect tiger sighting in this zone but interesting point is that during night safari, more sightings took place nearby village locations in compare to dense forest. This was very unusual or unexpected experience.
Overnight at Panna national park.

Day 04:

In this day, we will do morning safari drive in Panna national park. Later on, do some lunch and then drive to Bandhavgarh national park. This will be in south-west direction drive. Travel route will pass through a dry region of Panna tiger reserve to villages with fertile land, agricultural fields and till Bandhavgarh we will find dramatic change in vegetation with more dense forest and more greenery. On reaching your resort, just relax, have dinner and do preparations for next morning safari drive.
Overnight at Bandhavgarh.

Day 05:

Begin the Day 05 of tour package with morning safari drive at Bandhavgarh tiger reserve. Here 3 core zones will be in focus and all of these zones: Tala zone, Magadhi zone, Khitauli zone will have good potential for tiger sighting. In compare to Panna national park, here in Bandhavgarh, we will have chance for photograph more tigers which in an indication of high tiger density. Here forest will be comparatively more dense with bamboo bushes thus at many situation we will be able to see tigers but find it difficult to photograph because of dense bushes or tiger quickly crossed the road and disappeared in bushes. So we need to be more quick with our camera.
Overnight at Bandhavgarh.

Day 06:

In this day, we will continue our exploration for tigers. Do morning and afternoon safari drives. At Bandhavgarh, we will not undertake night safari drive as it is not much result oriented so we will continue our focus on day jeep safaris.
Overnight at Bandhavgarh.

Day 07:

This will be our last day in Bandhavgarh. We will do our morning safari drive and return back to resort. After lunch, we will leave for Pench national park. This will be comparatively long drive of 350km/ 06:40 hr but road condition is very good. This will be a surface transfer in north-west direction with more time on highway. We will take journey breaks during transfer and notice the habitat change from Sal tree forest to Teak forest which was one time home of Mowgli character of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Name of this tiger reserve is derived from its local river called Pench river. On reaching Pench resort, just relax and do preparations for next day safari drive.
Overnight at Pench national park.

Day 08:

Do morning & evening tiger safari. Rudyard Kipling's classic "The Jungle Book" is based on this forest. Here you can realize the scenes of Jungle Book and its here Mogli. Pench national park has highest density of herbivores animals like Sambar, Spotted Deer, Blue Bull, Wild Boar, Indian Gaur etc. This is rocky forest areas, with less meadows and more rock terrains. You can find plain area close to Pench river. Similarly presence of bushes is negligible which is good from photographic point of view. It offers good visibility. Other animals that can be seen here are Tiger, Leopard, Wold, Jackal, Sloth Bear etc. Birding at Pench is also good. You can find birds like Spotted Dove, Common Teal, Shikra, Lapwings, Common Kingfisher, Indian Roller, Pied Cuckoo, Asian Koel, Racket Tailed Drongo, Green Bee-eater, Bran Owl, Rose-ringed Parakeet etc. Here frequency of mammals & birds sighting is great. You can find animals spread evenly through out the jungle.
Overnight at Pench national park.

Day 09:

Do morning safari drive. At Pench national park, we will find that the tiger reserve area is spread over 2 states thus core zones are also in both the states. Here we have given more nights because here we have the option to cover different core zones and do one night safari. On Day 09 of our tour package we will do one morning safari and relax in the afternoon. Later in the evening we will undertake a one night safari drive to explore the forest of Khawasa zone. It is a buffer category of safari zone but here we can expect sightings of tiger, leopard, jungle cat, sloth bear etc. Chances for wolf sighting will be very less in core as well as buffer zones. Here the wolf population is mainly concentrated in non-tourism zones thus mostly not seen by tourists. Still on certain occasions, its sighting has been noted in adjoining village outskirts at late evening hours.
Overnight at Pench national park.

Day 10:

Do morning and afternoon safari drives. We will undertake our last safari drives of the tour. Here we will try to visit Pench forest of Maharashtra state. In this area we will cover Sillari zone and Khursapar zone. As per the ongoing tiger sighting trend, we will discuss with our local safari guides and decide which zone to cover and which one to drop or cover both of them. Apart from tigers, Pench national park is very good for wild dogs, sloth bear. Now a days, wild dogs sighting is more rare than tiger sighting. Thus we expect more in this national park and worth to spend more time here.
Overnight at Pench national park.

Day 11:

This will be last day of our tour package. As per our Nagpur flight timing we will decide our morning activities. If we have evening flight then we have chance to undertake a morning safari drive else after breakfast, we will drive to Nagpur airport for departure.

Stay Options

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.

Possible Tour Extension

Special Notes

Here we have shared some important notes for guests, which are related to the given tour plan.

1. Foremost requrement that a visitor can do for success of this tour is to plan in advance and confim it in advance so that we can timely book our desired safari zones to achieve best results, we deserve. 
2. As it involves marathon safaris thus maintain a good fitness level.
3. Tripods are not required in this tour but bean-bag will prove very useful as majority of time we will be doing safaris on safari vehicle.

Why to give us opportunity ?

Here we have shared some important notes for guests, which are related to the given tour plan.

• We are local tour operator, based in Madhya Pradesh thus we have better can do better tour supervision and equipped with latest ground updates.
• We have a long service experience of working in the Central India region. Our expertise on understanding guest requirements and accordingly making tours tailormade, will prove asset for our guests.
• We are registered with Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO), GSA of MPSTDC (MP Tourism Department). We are also the registered member of MPOnline portal which entitles us authorized safari permits booking agent for popular tiger reserves.
• Due to our local connection, our ground relations with local guides are excellent. This will be a great benefit in tour success. Good safari guide or city tour guide can enhance the safari or sightseeing experience.
• By giving us chance, you will be giving direct opportunity to a local team thus ensuring direct benefits to local persons.