Enjoying Wild Excursions at Kipling’s Pench

In eighteen century a naked child was found roaming with the wolves. What astounded the British Lieutenant who saw it for the first time was the mangled appearance and the ease with which it was mingling with the wolf pack. It looked deranged and could not communicate suggesting that it was abundant since birth.

Mowgli as Rudyard Kipling named him was then turned into a fantasy by the literary genius though he had never seen him. The place was then Seonee Hills contiguous with present day Pench and Kanha National Parks of Central Indian Highlands.

Kipling wove chimera around the wolf child in one of the creative and fascinating manner ever. His antics in ancient settings of dense forests of Seoni teeming with tigers and plethora of wild animals of various hues and colors, of appearance gentle and ferocious left readers of his "Jungle Book" absolutely spellbound. The numerous escapades in the romantic settings of Indian jungles were part fiction part reality woven with absolute dexterity by Kipling. The pen brought the characters of Jungle Book into real life devolved of fiction and fallacy of the author’s imagination and till this day the drama is enacted in the forests of Pench National Park in Central India.

Mowgli is no more but thousands live across the length and breadth of Pench Neighborhood. The wolf pack inhabits the outer rings of the villages so do Baloo and Baghira. Sher Khan toils inside the core area of the park elusive and ferocious always after antelopes, deer and the bison. He dare not charge at the humans for they have outsmarted him overtaken by wickedness and guile. They would kill him instantly with the gun a man eating tiger. The tiger killers are ruthless poachers but thanks to the law they dare not do so and leave him to his destiny in the wilderness peacefully.

Pench National Park is a tiger reserve and a conservation unit accorded full protection from intruders, marauders and wood loggers. You can visit the National Park on tour a holiday safari that is becoming very popular in India. Easy accessible by road from Jabalpur and Nagpur these remote areas have come closer to humanity. You can fly to New Delhi or Mumbai and the fly to Jabalpur or Nagpur and then drive to Khawasa that leads to the Turia Village where most of the \jungle resorts are situated.

Whence making plan for tiger safari at Pench book the permit first. There is limitation to entry in the park. Once you have booked the permit your excursions are assured. The hotel would look after things and assure you of a grand safari holiday in Central India.

Most of the accommodations are situated near the Turia Village and provide a budget or a luxurious stay. Book one of the best for best holiday experience and enjoy the safaris. With some luck you will see the tiger and the leopard in their natural home. You may as well see the sloth bear, wild dog, bison and the wolf. Common animals with thoroughly entertain you and pose of wild pictures. Make a memorable stay at the Kipling Country.

Uday writes often on Indian wildlife especially about the tigers. He works as a naturalist and is fond of travel. Uday also provides search engine optimization service and website contents in English.