Pench Wildlife Tours | Pench National Park

Pench National park, nestling in the lower southern reaches of the satpuda hills is named after Pench river, meandering through the park from north to south. It is located on the southern boundary of Madhya Pradesh, bordering Maharashtra, in the districts of Seoni and Chhindwara.Pench National Park, comprising of 758 SQ Kms, out of which a core area of 299 sq km of Indira Priyadarshini Pench National Park and the Mowgli Pench Sanctuary and remaining 464 sq km of pench national park is the buffer area.

The area of the present tiger reserve has a glorious history.

A description of its natural wealth and richness occurs in Ain-i-Akbari.

Pench Tiger Reserve and its neighbourhood is the original setting of Rudyard Kipling's most famous work, The Jungle Book.

The undulating topography supports a mosaic of vegetation ranging from moist, sheltered valleys to open, dry deciduous forest. Over 1200 species of plants have been recorded from the area including several rare and endangered plants as well as plants of ethno-botanical importance.

The area has always been rich in wildlife.

It is dominated by fairly open canopy, mixed forests with considerable shrub cover and open grassy patches. The high habitat heterogeneity favours high population of Chital and Sambar. Pench wildlife tours and pench tiger reserve has highest density of herbivores in India (90.3 animals per sq km).

Land of the ‘Jungle Book
The Pench Tiger Reserve and its neighborhood is the original setting of Rudyard Kipling’s most famous work, the jungle Book, Kipling borrowed heavily from Robert Armitage Strendale’s books ‘Seonee’ ‘Mammalia of India and Ceylon’ and ‘Denizens of the Jungle’ for the topography, the wildlife, and its ways.

Mowgli was inspired by Sir William Henry Sleeman’s pamphlet. ‘An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, which describes a wolf-boy captured in Seoni district near the village of Sant Baori in 1831. Many of jungle Book’s locations are actual locations in Seoni District like the Waingunga River with its gorge where Sherkhan was killed, Kanhiwara village and the ‘Seeonee hills’.

Pench Willife Tours (Mowgli Land)
3 Nights / 4 Days
Destinations : Nagpur - Pench - Nagpur

Day - 1 – Nagpur - Pench
Arrive at Nagpur airport, our representative will meet you and transfer you to Pench National Park. Post lunch go for exciting jeep safari in national park. Stay overnight in the resort.

Day - 2 – Pench National Park
Early in the morning, go for Jeep safari in Pench National Park. Have breakfast and lunch at resort. Enjoy evening game jeep safari at National Park. Stay overnight at Hotel.

Day - 3 – Pench National Park
Morning and evening jeep safari in Pench National Park. Stay overnight at Hotel.

Day - 4 – Jabalpur
After breakfast, proceed for airport/ railway station for onward journey