Bandhavgarh National Park
Bandhavgarh National Park is a park with a rich historical past.
Prior to becoming a national park, the forests around
Bandhavgarh had long been maintained as a game preserve
of the maharajas and their guests.
No special conservation measures were
taken until 1968, when the areas were constituted as a
national park. Since then numerous steps have been taken
to retain Bandhavgarh as an unspoilt natural habitat.
The wildlife population of
Bandhavgarh consists of leopards, chital, sambar, nilgai,
chinkara, and jackals, more than 250 species of birds,
and numerous species of butterflies and reptiles. But
the main attraction of the park is the tiger.
Bandhavgarh has a high density of tigers and there’s a
saying that goes: ‘In any other park you are lucky if
you see a tiger, in Bandhavgarh you are unlucky if you
don’t see, at least, one’.
The park
offers jeep and elephant safaris.