Season :
The Pench National Park is open to the visitors from November 01st to
June 30th each year and closed during the rainy seasons (July- October)
Access : By Air:
Airport - Sonegaon Airport, Nagpur (93 km from Pench National Park) Nagpur
is the nearest airport connected to Mumbai and other places by regular
flights.
By Rail: Railway Station - Seoni Railway Station (30
km from Pench National Park) Seoni is the nearest railway station connected
to Mumbai and other places in the region by regular trains.
By
Road: The nearest bus stand is at Seoni from where one can take buses or
jeeps to the Pench National Park. Seoni is connected to almost all the
places in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra by good road and rail networks.
Temperature:
| October to January |
2-16° Celcius |
| February to March |
16 - 26° Celcius |
| April to June |
26 - 42° C |
| Average Rainfall |
1177 millimetres |
Park Safari Timings
| Months |
Morning |
Afternoon |
| 01 November - 15 February |
0600-1220 |
1500-1830 hrs |
| 16 February - 30 April |
0600-1220 |
1600-1830 hrs |
| 01 May - 30 June |
0600-1100 |
1700-1830 hrs |
Accomodation
Bagh
Van Lodge is just five minutes away from the entrance of the Pench National
Park. It is hidden away amongst the thickly wooded banks of a seasonal
stream, which, in the dry season serves as a pathway for tiger, leopard and
other animals inhabiting the fringe of the forest. The lodge has
cottage-type accommodation, each with a bedroom, bathroom and verandah. The
lodge has a main dining & lounge area with a mix of open and enclosed
spaces. Local bamboo furniture has been used in the rooms. The rooms and
bathrooms are provided with large windows to allow sufficient natural light.
Guests staying at BaghVan can go for guided nature walks, go for
game drives to Pench, enjoy boat rides or elephant rides. Also they can
visit the local haat/Bazaar in the nearby villages.
| Pench Jungle Camp |
Upper-End |
Pench Jungle camp is spread out over 11acres with 12 Deluxe
Safari style canvas tents, waterproof, pitched on a platform. Also 4
spacious A/C rooms with attached toilets are there for the creature comfort
lovers. All the rooms have attached bathroom, tiled, running hot and cold
water, with LPG Geysers, anti skid bathroom tiles.
Other
services and facilities include a 9 hole putting green spread out in 2.5
acres of carpet grass, 400 feet water stream running through the camp with
fish and Lotus, Billiards room, Pool table, Badminton courts, host of indoor
games, swimming Pool ( to be ready by April 2004), with a filtration plant,
Wildlife research center, Coffee maker in room and multi cuisine Restaurant
Wildlife:Flora:
The forest type is southern tropical dry deciduous teak and southern
tropical mixed deciduous forest with other species of shrubs, trees and
climbers. Pench is dotted with teak and its associates moyan, mahua, mokha,
skiras, tendu, bija, achar, garari, aonla, bhaman, ghont, baranga, amaltas,
kihamali, khair, bhirra, palas. Bamboo occurs sparsely, restricted to some
valleys
Mammals: Tiger, leopard, jungle cat, leopard cat,
striped hyaena, wild dog, wolf, common mongoose, sloth bear, pangolin,
spotted deer, sambar, barking deer, nilgai, wild pig and gaur apart from
exciting small mammals like flying squirrels, palm and small civet, common
and ruddy mongoose etc.
Reptiles: Freshwater crocodile,
Indian chameleon, Common Krait, Indian Rock Python, Cobra, Indian Flap Shell
Turtle, Peninsular Black Turtle etc.
Birds: Pench is haven
for birds with more than 200 species recorded from here including the
migratory waders and the ducks. It is pretty easy to spot birds like the
Crested Serpant Eagle, Changeable Hawk Eagle, Painted Francolin, Malabar
Pied Hornbill, Collared Scops Owl and many other species.
Wildlife in India
Pench
National Park is a part of the Project Tiger network of special reserves.
Pench is one of the most accessible tiger reserves in the country, just 90
kilometres (1 hour and 30 minutes) north of Nagpur. The Reserve is located
in the southern reaches of the Satpura hill range in the Seoni and
Chhindwara districts in the Madhya Pradesh State of India. The terrain is
undulating, with most of the area covered by small hills, steeply sloping on
the sides. The description of its natural beauty, richness in flora and
fauna has appeared in numerous wildlife books dating back to the 17th
century. Books written in the 19th and early 20th century by famous
naturalists like Captain J. Forsyth and Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book
explicitly present the detailed panorama of nature's abundance in this tract
