Kanha National Park
Visitors to the Kanha National Park instantly realize why the protected forest reserve inspired Rudyard Kipling for his magnum opus ‘The Jungle Book’. Spread over 940 sq. km. area, the park was created in 1955 and soon it became a part of the Kanha Tiger Reserve along with other nearby forest reserves. While royal Bengal Tiger is the most spellbinding attraction of Kanha, one can also enjoy exploring the likes of leopards, slothe bear, swamp deer (barasingha), spotted deer, sambar, bison, nilgai, hyena, jungle cat and wild lives of other sorts. Kanha is also famous as a bird watching destination for being home to storks, egrets, pintails, herons, rollers, drongo, kingfishers, finches, green pigeon, woodpeckers and many more. Apart from over 1,000 flowering plants, the park also boasts of sal trees, bamboo forests, huge meadows and the beautiful Indian ghost tree called kullu. Kanha is internationally claimed for its star tigers like Munna which regularly feature in wildlife documentaries. Safari trips to the park are organized twice a day, from sunrise to 11:00 a.m. and from 02:00 p.m. to sunset. Guides (that cost extra) are compulsory for the visitors. Limited numbers of vehicles (18-40) are allowed per shift to the four zones of the park.