Bandhavgarh Tour Packages

BANDHAVGARH TIGER RESERVE
At the heart of India is Madhya Pradesh – home to the Vindhyas and the Satpuras, to forested plateaus and winding rivers. It is home, too, to a fifth of the world's tiger population. Bandhavgarh National Park is tiger country at its best: 446 sq km of deciduous forest and grasslands, laced through with perennial streams and springs.

HISTORY OF TIGERS
There have been many famous Tigers of Bandhavgarh, 'Sita' and 'Charger' was one of the most photographed in the world and 'B2' has been a dominant male for many years. Our photographic records go back to 1978 of 'Daddy' (father of 'Sita').


PATRONS OF THE PARK
Once a private hunting reserve of the Royal family of Rewa, Maharaja Martand Singh committed to conservation gave the Jungles of Bandhavgarh to the Forest department in 1968 and a National park of 105sq km. was formed.


THE FORESTS
Bandhavgarh's landscape is a patchwork of semi-evergreen Sal (Shorea robusta), mixed deciduous forests and rolling grassland. This kind of jungle is among the most endangered kinds of 'monsoon forest' in the Indian subcontinent. As the name suggests, the rains (July-September) are the pivotal event in the calendar of a monsoon forest, an epiphany of moisture that regulates its rhythms, colours and scale.

BIRDS & BUTTERFLIES
With over 250 species of birds, Bandhavgarh is a bird watcher paradise, a large number of migratory birds are a welcome delight and viewing different species of vultures flying at eye level from the Bandhavgarh fort is a breathtaking experience.

TIGERS
The Tiger Panthera-tigris is close extinction, there was a time they roamed freely across Asia and their territory extended to the far reaches of Russia and Mongolia but today Tigers are confined to the boundaries of a few game reserves. Their lives threatened by poaching and constant pressures of urban development eating into their forests, theirs is a difficult time.

THE FORT
The Park spreads out around the Bandhavgarh Fort, the seat of the Bhaghel rulers until they shifted to Rewa in the seventeenth century. It is an imposing presence that bears witness to a long history, with inscriptions and carvings in caves that are said to date back to between 129 and 168 AD. The Fort houses a spectacular assortment of monolithic statues of Lord Vishnu in his many incarnations, scattered around are also ruins of temples held together by ancient Ficus trees and large water tanks carved by hand. Tigers and other wildlife are frequently sighted in the forests on the fort and add to the excitement of exploration.

MAMMALS
Bandhavgarh has a variety of species of Mammals: The Chital or Spotted deer are common and also the most important prey base for the unusually high Tiger population of the reserve. We often see Sambhar deer and Chinkara antelope are spotted on the edges of the park. The Indian Wolf, Wild dogs, Jungle cat and Palm Civet are some of more common, whereas Leopards, Sloth Bears, Hyena's and a few other mammals seem to be quite elusive.