About Kanha National Park
More information about Kanha National Park
Kanha National Park a tiger reserve and national park in Balaghat and Mandla districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. This national park covers an area of about 940 square kilometers in the two districts including Balaghat and Mandla. It forms the Kanha Tiger Reserve Sanctuary with 110 square kilometers adjacent Phen and a plaza surrounding the buffer zone 1009 km. This national park has a large population of Barasingha and Royal Bengal tiger.
Fauna
Kanha National Park has a large population of tigers estimated to about 121 in June 2006. It also has a significant population of Indian wild dog, leopards and sloth bear. There are an estimated 396 dogs Indian wild, while the leopards are estimated at around 80 in total. The sloth bear is estimated 111 people in 2000.
Most prey species of a large predator is chital or spotted deer. This is estimated at 20,000 in Kanha National Park. The second largest population of deer is Cervus unicolor or sambar which is based important prey of the tiger. Several mammals are usually observed gray langur in 6668 estimated population, in about 8534 wild boar, sambar in more than 3621 and gaur estimated that more than in 2000.
Other top species are the Kanha National Park Indian gray mongoose, small Indian civet, badger Honey, Smooth-coated otter, the fox of Bengal, the rhesus monkey and golden jackal. It also includes the Indian hare, porcupine, Indian, Indian pangolin, spotted chevrotain, leopard cat, jungle cat and striped hyena.
Safari in Kanha National Park
The elephant safari and jeep safari’s 2 options for the spectacular view of wild animals in the park. These are available at any time during their visits. The right time to see the animals is during night and early morning when they are usually wide awake. The safaris are available from 6:00 a.m.-12: 00 noon and 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm in the afternoon.
Other attractions besides Kanha National Park
Kanha Museum
This museum is located inside the Kanha National Park. The museum is the perfect place to learn about the topography and several interesting aspects of the national park that would enhance their experience of visiting the Kanha National Park.
Bamni Dadar
This place is also called the “Sunset Point” and the most attractive in the Kanha National Park. Animals such as the four-horned antelope, gaur, barking deer and sambar deer can be seen around the area.
Raja Rani
This area is located near the center of National Park visitor Kanha.
Getting to Kanha National Park
Jabalpur is the nearest airport around 6 hours drive from Kanha National Park. There are daily services to Nagpur and Raipur from other airports in India.
There are two ways to get to Kanha National Park via or through Khatia Kisli. Also There are regular services to national park Jabalpur. From Raipur, Jabalpur and Bilaspur could hire taxis to the park. The cars are not allowed in Kanha National Parkafter dark.
The appropriate railheads from Kanha National Park Nagpur and Jabalpur. These two are connected by high speed trains, super.
The MPSTDC or state of Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation runs a service for tourists in the jeep to visit Kanha National Park.
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