Kanha Safari Attractions

There are some areas inside the park which has its typical history behind their names. When your are on a jungle safari in kanha national park, you will see these areas list below :

Bamni Dadar
Bamni dadar is one of the highest plateaux in the tiger reserve and offers an enchanting view of the vastness and beauty of the forests. The Britishers use to take a ride by their aircraft to view the beauty of the park. There is still place in Bamni dadar from where the aircraft takes off. It is highly recommended Bambni dadar while you visit the park. It is also known as the sunset point of Kanha. Most tourist use to visit Bamni dadar to experience the awe-inspiring view of sun set during the winding up of their evening park safari. Bamhani dadar offers spectacular views of western part of the national park. It is the highest point in Kanha. Here you will barking deer, spotted deer and Indian bison.

Sonf Meadows
Sonf village was the first one to be moved out from Park area for making spreading the tiger reserve in Kanha. As the people being moved away from the reserve, within few years few barasingha descended here and they began to breed successfully. The thick and extensive cover of tall grasses protected the barasingha fawns from predators. Similar to Sonf, there are few other meadows also where the earlier villages were there.

Kanha Meadows
The Kanha Meadows is one of the most popular visit place in Kanha. As many times tourist have spotted the tiger hunting its prey. In Large meadows you can witness the herbivores, and therefore carnivores are also there.

Shravan Tal
There is a small water pond in the reserve which is popularly known as sharan tal. As per the belief of local villagers, that it was named because of the history that the dutiful son shravan Kumar came here to fetch water to his blind Parents. Kings Dasharatha (father of Shri Rama) has mistakenly shooted shravan Kumar with his bows arrows as they thought there is a wild animal drinking water from the pond.

Shravan Chita
Shravan Chita is the so called place where the dutiful son shravan Kumar, was cremated. It was a mythological belief that the King Dasharatha, who was on a hunting expedition happen to be near to the spot where shravan Kumar went to fetch water for his blind parents. The spot is at a centre of the park when you enter from Kisli gate and moves towards Kanha. Large number of herbivores and carnivores animals and birds use to come here as the water availability in this pond is throughout the year.

Lapsi Kabar
This place is around 06 km from Kanha and lies in Mukki Safari Zone. Their are many stories associated with Lapsi Kabar. Here Lapsi is the name of a man who fought with Tiger and died in this conflict. On story says that while during British India time he was with a group of foreigner who were on hunting expedition and tiger charged on them. Lapsi came forward to protect them and died during conflict with tiger. Other story says he was local hunter who was often called to kill man-eating tiger of Kanha. In a similar call he went to forest and put his wife as offer to tiger. When tiger came, he shoot arrow on him but unfortunately missed the aim and in same moment tiger charged on his wife. In order to protect his wife, he fought with tiger and both of them died their. He fought bravely with the tiger but in the end paid with his life. The gravestone is the memorial for his courage.

Kanha Museum
Kanha Museum is located near the entrance of Kisli Gate. The Kanha museum is established and maintain by the forest department of Madhya Pradesh. Here you can find the skeletons of reptiles, carnivores and herbivores. The museum is opened through out the day for the visitors.

Sondar Meadow
This meadow lies in Mukki safari zone. It is a huge meadow area where we can easily find large herds of spotted deer and rare Hard-ground Barasingha. It is popular safari place in Mukki zone where Barasingha spotting and photography is easy. Due to presence of Sondar tank, here water availability remain throught the year which makes it suitable place for wild animals.

Dasharatha Machan
While you are near the shravan tal, you can see opposite to it the mountain like structure called as shravan machan. As the Indian mythology says that from this point the doomed arrow to dutiful son Shravan Kumar. The Hill on which the machan existed is known as Macha Dongar.
King Dasharatha used that machan as a hideout for hunting. The Machan is buit at a height on the trees, where they wait patiently for animals to pass by. It seems like an easy hunting technique, but it is not.

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