Jungle Safari's
Bandhavgarh Reserve, featured with a millennium old fort, tropical forests and woodlands, steep rocky hills and grassland valleys, brings one of the most dramatic landscapes in the country.
Location
Located in Umaria district in Madhya Pradesh in the Vindhya ranges of the Bandhavgarh Hill at an altitude of 811 m above the sea level, there lays the supreme land of the tigers the Bandhavgarh National Park.
Flora and Fauna
Bandhavgarh boasts astounding varieties of trees and foliages, with almost half the park's area covered with fine trees and hushy-bushy shrubs. The top of the hills are carpeted with mixed forests, while beautiful stretches of bamboo and grasslands spreading across the north illuminates the whole ambience.
Bandhavgarh is popularly known across the world for its dense tigers' population since it has been declared as national park in the year 1968. But there's much more to see besides the tigers and leopards. Chital (spotted deer), Sambar deer, dhole, nilgai, wild boar, chinkara, sloth bear, rhesus macaque, black faced langur, jungle cat, hyena, porcupine, jackal, fox and wild dog also inhabit in its forests.
Bengal Tigers of Bandhavgarh
The Bandhavgarh National park is singularly known for the highest density of Bengal tigers in the vicinity. They have been specified with unique names to identify in the dense jungles and are known in the world. Out of all those individual species, Charger is the first healthy male known to be living in Bandhavgarh since 1990s and is being named so because of his habit of charging at elephants and tourists (whom he nonetheless did not harm). A female called Sita is considered as the most
photographed tiger in the world and also appeared on the cover of National Geographic. Today, almost all the tigers are descendent of Sita and Charger and both the tigers along with other famous tigers are considered not more than as the celebrities of Bandhavgarh. Some of them like Mohini, Langru and B2 have known much for their frequent sightings and moving closer to the tourist jeeps.
Today, the most prominent tiger in Bandhavgarh National Park is Bamera, who has territory in all the four zones of the park. The female species are Kankatti and Panpatti who both have three and two cubs respectively.
Climate of Bandhavgarh
The climatic conditi0ons of this tigers' land vary in extreme conditions like in winters the tourists are bound to put on multi-layer of protection to face the bitter cold. Mornings are extremely pleasant but once the impact of sun rays lowers down, the weather is extremely ferocious to face the chilly winds with the temperature ranges of 45C to 30C. Monsoons can be witnessed in between 1st July to 15th of October, when the reserve is remained closed for normal visiting with an average rainfall of 1200 mm. And quite opposite the summers change so drastically that it goes maximum temperature of 48 C.
Travel Info
Rail Connectivity : The closest station is the Umaria Railway Station. And the location is well connected with Agra and Delhi. Tala (Bandhavgarh) is well connected to Katni which is one of the major railway junctions nearby.
Road Connectivity : Umaria can be accessed through a jeep ride from Tala, the village at the Main Gate to Bandhavgarh. It takes 2-2.5 hrs and you can easily get vehicles to and from the station by jeeps or similar vehicles waiting at the exit of the Umaria railway station.