Located in Central India, Kanha National
Park is known to be one of the most well known tiger reserves in the country.
When it comes to tiger tourism, there are some national parks in central India
that come in mind are Kanha National park, Bandhavgarh, Tadoba National Park,
Panna, Pench and others. Thousands of tourists from different parts of the
world visit Kanha from October to June, which is the tourism season. The
traffic of tourists is consistently increasing and park authorities are finding
it hard to manage the crowd and meet their needs.
For better management, even distribution
of visitors, and tourism management, they have introduced zone system. There
are two entrance gates in 2010, i.e. Mukki Gate and Khatia Gate and there are
two different zones – Mukki Zone and Kanha Zone. Because of constant increase
in tourism, there are certain challenges for authorities like gathering
vehicles at some areas are causing chaos and safari vehicles are disturbing the
wildlife and violating the rules. To avoid these situations for better tourism,
the authorities have opened some of the new areas for visitors and those areas
are divided into safari zones.
Currently, there are four zones for Kanha Tiger safari where tourists can take safari vehicles. Tourists can go to
only one zone at one drive. This way, they have to take four drives to visit
all four zones. Earlier, Mukki and Kanha were the only zones. Later on, the
authorities opened Sarhi zone for visitors. Kanha is the most sought after and
premium safari zone where ticket price is more than other zones. Later on, Kisli safari zone was also
introduced derived from Kanha safari zone. One can easily book entrance tickets
in advance. You can book guide and safari vehicle on arrival. You have to pay a
certain fee to hire a guide from entrance gate.
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