MP Travel Destination: It's been a long time since the summer holidays started and many people are busy finding new and best options to travel. If you too have not yet been able to choose the best place for your summer vacation, then we can help you with this. So let us introduce you to Kanha National Park located in Madhya Pradesh full of natural beauty, where once you go, you will feel like going again and again.
Madhya Pradesh Tourism (@mptourism) has given information about this beautiful place in the latest post on its official page on the microblogging platform, Koo App. Madhya Pradesh Tourism wrote in its ku post, “Enjoy the best of summer by visiting Kanha National Park in June.
Incredible Kanha National Park
The largest national park of Madhya Pradesh i.e. Kanha National Park is also home to tigers. This park is situated in the Maikal hills of Satpura spread over two districts- Mandla and Balaghat. Spread over 940 sq km, this park is considered one of the managed Wildlife National Parks of India. It was declared a protected forest in 1879 and notified as a wildlife sanctuary in 1933. In the 1930s, Kanha was divided into two sanctuaries, Hallan and Banjar, of 250 km² and 300 km² respectively.
places to visit in Kanha national park
Kanha Museum
The Kanha Museum, located inside the Kanha National Park, is maintained by the State Forest Department. Located near Khatia (Kisli) Gate, this museum can be visited throughout the year and is a perfect place for people interested in wildlife, botany, and zoology.
Lapsi Kabar
A daredevil, expert hunter and guide named 'Lapsi' lost his life fighting a ferocious tiger while trying to save the lives of his fellow sportsmen. In his memory, a mausoleum has been built at the place where he fought the tiger. Today Lapsi Kabar is an important place of Kanha National Park.
Auditory canal
A small pond located in the Kanha Tiger Reserve is believed to be the place where Shravan Kumar took his blind parents and fetched water from this pond. While fetching water, Shravan was killed by Dasaratha, the father of Lord Rama. Hence the pond is named after Shravan Kumar.
Sindoor tree
The vermilion regularly used in Indian households is extracted from the variety of this tree, which is found in abundance in this national park.
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