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Area: 2,000 sq km
Major Attractions: Barasinghas, Tigers and Birds
Best Season to Visit: November to March
About Kanha National Park
Kanha National Park is horseshoe-shaped valley, and grasslands surrounded by Satpura Mountains, standing at heights ranging between 450 and 900 m. Comprising the Banjar and Halon Valleys of the erstwhile princely provinces of central India, it became an hunting ground for the British from 1879-1910. In 1933, Kanha was established as a sanctuary and declared a national park in 1955. It is believed that the word Kanha came from the texture of the soil found in the area. Kanha has thick vegetation of bamboo and sal forest. Also there are lots of streams and fountain and magnificent water bodies that stores thrilling surprises for visitors at each step. The exquisite beauty and the immense variety of wildlife in Kanha National Park will leave you speechless. After the famous author Rudyard Kipling wrote "The Jungle Book" in 1894, setting his story in this forests, Kanha National Park attained instant popularity. It's an outstanding national park of Central India, noted for its last remaining population of the hard-ground race of the Swamp Deer. Located in the Mandia district of Madhya Pradesh, it spreads over 1,945 sq.kms of dense sal forests, interspersed with extensive meadows and trees and clumps of wild bamboo.
Most
of India's wildlife experience is centered on the tiger, and other
experiences - especially those related to birds -often get overlooked.
But don't make that mistake in Kanha- there are as many as 300 birds
species here, both resident and migratory birds. You can't get down from
the vehicle in the core area, but you can walk along trails in the
buffer zone. 
