Pench National Park Hotels & Resorts

Being just a five-minute drive to Pench National Park’s Turia Gate is very convenient for game drives. The morning safari starts at dawn and lasts for around five hours while the afternoon drive is shorter at around three-and-a-half hours. You can also do a night-time safari in the park’s periphery buffer zone, also known as the ‘wolf safari,’ due to the amount of wolf sightings.

There’s abundant wildlife in Pench National Park. Of course, being a tiger reserve, Bengal tigers are the star attractions, but there are other incredible animals such as leopard, jackal and wild dog. Moving down the food chain there’s chital (spotted deer), sambar and muntjac deer. Gaur is another fascinating creature in the area, the largest species of wild cattle.

Driving through the meadows in an open-top 4x4, the animals you see might be completely different to the ones you encounter when you cross into bamboo terrain. That’s how diverse the landscape is. During the summer you can see a multitude of creatures congregating around the water sources. If you go to the backwaters during this time, you’ll see hundreds of deer at the edges of the riverbanks.