Pench Tiger Reserve Gateway

One of rich forest Tiger Reserve of the central India. You can spot mammals here. The safari booking is online and can take morning or evening safari. The Khawasa and Rukhhad area are good for tiger sighting. Even if any chance we are not able to sight tiger, still teh safari is fruitful. As it takes you through the dense forest and thick canopy. You will the enjoy the joy of being in forest and nature.

The Pench National Park is spread across the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and spread over an area of 758 sq kms. It was established in the year 1965 and was recognized as a national park in the tear 1975. It got the recognition as a tiger reserve in 1992. It is divided by the river Pench Into two practically equal parts. This park is an abode to over 286 local and migratory birds and other animals like the Royal Bengal Tiger, Indian leopard, fox, striped hyena, jackal, peafowl, four-horned antelope, Indian wolf, wild dog, wild boar, sloth bear, monkey, gaur and barking deer.The wildlife sanctuary can be easily reached by rail, road and air.

Pench National Park or Tiger Reserve is one of the premier tiger reserves of India and the only one to straddle across two states - Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Ordinarily, the reference to Pench is mostly always to the tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh(M.P). This area was described as extremely rich and diverse in wildlife from the earliest records available on the 16th century Deogarh kingdom (Kumar 1989). The scenic beauty and the floral and faunal diversity of the Central Indian Highlands have been well documented by the British since the late 17th century, e.g. Forsyth's (1919) "Highlands of Central India" (first published in 1871). Thereafter, Sterndale (1887) and Brander (1923) have added to the knowledge on the distribution of the flora, fauna and the local inhabitants of this tract. The fictional works of Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, are set in the region. Kipling himself never visited the area, instead basing his descriptions on other locations in India. During the 17th century the Gond rulers of this region cleared large tracts of forests for cultivation and dwellings. This onslaught continued up to 1818, through the rule by the Marathas and later under the British. It was not until 1862 that efforts were made to control the indiscriminate destruction and the forests were declared reserved (elaborated in Kumar 1989). The Pench Sanctuary was created in September 1977, with an initial area of 449.39 km². The Pench National Park, recently renamed as Indira Priyadarshini Pench National Park, was created in 1983, carved out of the Sanctuary. The Tiger Reserve, 19th in the series, was formed under the Project Tiger scheme in November 1992.