Overview
India is blessed with awe-inspiring and breathtakingly beautiful tiger reserves, where tigers roam wild and free and the jungles evoke visions from 'The Jungle Book'! In the pantheon of these tiger reserves stand two high and handsome, for they are the benchmark with which tiger sightings and occasionally tiger tourism is measured in India! One is large and drop dead gorgeous, the other one is compact, intense and iconic! While tigers look immensely beautiful in the ethereal Sal canopy and the never-ending grasslands of Kanha, Bandhavgarh's rocky terrain interspersed with meadows and Sal tracts makes tiger viewing probably the most fascinating experience in India!
These are two of our most planned jungles and having done over a combined thousand departures to these reserves, we know what we are doing!
From selecting the right safari zone (While Kanha has 4 zones for tourism, Bandhavgarh has 3) to ensuring we get the best tiger viewing and photographing opportunities, our fabulous team of naturalists, guides and well-trained safari drivers would leave you spellbound with their mastery of this craft! Our passion is infectious, our drive is contagious and our tiger tracking team is, well, very very good! Come to this fabulous tour where we do not waste any time doing anything but tracking the gorgeous tiger! This is Tiger Central and we live by it!
Itinerary Day
Day 1 - Arrive Nagpur and drive to Kanha. Evening jungle safari. Overnight at Kanha.
(You are requested to reach Nagpur anytime till 9:30 am. The convenient timings are given in the chart alongside this itinerary).
(On our arrival in Nagpur, our experts would help group all the campers for breakfast following which we drive to Kanha. The four hours' journey takes us through the beautiful Pench forest before we enter Kanha. After a hot lunch, we go on our first safari drive in this beautiful forest. Based on the knowledge of the tiger movements from the morning safari, we will straight away drive to the area and track the cats. We shall try our best to get a tiger on the first safari itself.
Post the safari, an early dinner would send you into your warm beds.)
Day 2 & 3 - Morning and evening jungle safaris. Overnight in Kanha.
(We spend two more days in the jungle and in process undertake four jungle drives. We shall explore all the famed tiger areas such as the Kanha meadows, the Sonph maidans, the hills of Digdola and Salghat, the ponds near Kisli and the mysterious region east of Kisli, called as the Mukki zone. Our drives and guides would give their very best to give you the experience you came to this legendary jungle for. You will understand the nuances of tiger tracking, the incredible thrill and suspense of following pugmarks or listening to alarm calls and finally the ultimate joy of seeing the orange and black cat!
After a hard days' of safaring through those bumpy jungle paths, we come back to the resort for a steaming hot cuppa and critique sessions).
Day 4 - Morning safari. Drive to Bandhavgarh.
(After one last safari in this fabled jungle, we come back for a quick brunch before heading toward Bandhavgarh. On our arrival, without much ado, we embark on our first safari in the 'Temple of the Tiger'!
Day 5 & 6 - Morning and evening jungle safaris. Overnight in Bandhavgarh.
The vistas and scenes in Bandhavgahr are surreal to say the least but the chances of getting a tiger in one of these fabled habitats makes it so much more thrilling! Be it the meadows at Sehra and Rajbehra, the ancient rocky outcrops and caves in Tala or the dense bamboo thickets of Magadhi, tigers abound in this tiger reserve. Our team, with their extensive knowledge of the movement patterns and habits of the tigers will show you the ultimate joy of tiger tracking!
Bandhavgarh won't disappoint you.
Day 7 - Tour ends.
After the twelfth safari of the tour, we shall drive back to Jabalpur to board the flight onward to your next destination.
Highlights
- An experience of exploring two of central India's most celebrated jungles.
- Excellent photo opportunities to make images of tigers in their lush green Sal habitat, grassy meadows and rocky outcrops.
- Beyond Wild's experienced tiger trackers for company.
- 12 jungle safaris in the best and most happening zones with 100% focus on tigers. Our keen understanding of the local tiger movements, predicting where the sightings would happen and well-established ground network will ensure we end up where all the action is!
- Stay at beautiful forest lodges at both the reserves,
- A fantastic birding experience for the habitat boasts of species like the Malaba Pied Hornbill, White rumped Shama, Indian Scops Owl and the many flycatchers.
- On-camp sessions on tigers, wildlife photography in general and tiger photography in particular.
