Our Kanha holidays & tours
Kanha is Kipling country. The 940 sq km national park and tiger reserve inspired his Jungle Book, and visitors today can appreciate the same rolling grasslands and bamboo forests. You’ll want to watch wildlife on our Kanha holidays, and with 22 species of mammals including tigers, striped hyenas, leopards, jackals, otters, civets, bears and the rare hardground barasingha, you won’t be disappointed. Our Kanha holidays put tiger-watching front and centre, with plenty of chances for jeep safaris. Yet the king of the jungle isn't the be-all and end-all. Our holidays also visit the tribal communities that have been displaced from the park. By cycling in this area between towns, you can meet people from rural communities, as well as visit social projects and cooperatives designed to support them.
Our top Kanha holidays
Wildlife holiday in Central India
From
Rupee265000 to Rupee299000
12 days
ex flights
Best of Indian wildlife with tiger, leopard and sloth bear
Small group2026: 7 Jan, 12 Feb, 4 Mar, 10 May, 28 May
Kanha tiger safari & cycling tour, India
From
£1995
8 days
ex flights
Gentle Cycling in the Secret Heart of India
Small group2026: 4 Jan, 2 Feb, 10 Nov
Wildlife photography holiday in India
From
£1150 to £1450
10 days
ex flights
Photograph superb wildlife & even the illusive tiger
Tailor made
Tiger and wildlife photography tour, India
From
Rupee290000
13 days
ex flights
Tiger & leopard photography tour in India's best reserves
Small group2026: 14 Feb
Wildlife tour of India
From
£2987
13 days
ex flights
Witness India's tigers, lions & leopards in the wild
Tailor made
Tiger tour in India, land of the Tiger tour
From
£2959 to £3899
16 days
ex flights
Wildlife tour through India
Small group2026: 22 Mar, 29 Mar, 5 Apr, 12 Apr, 4 Oct, 18 Oct, 1 Nov, 15 Nov, 29 Nov, 2027: 10 Jan, 24 Jan, 12 Feb, 21 Feb, 7 Mar, 12 Mar, 21 Mar, 28 Mar, 4 Apr, 11 Apr, 3 Oct, 17 Oct, 24 Oct, 31 Oct, 7 Nov, 14 Nov, 21 Nov, 28 Nov
Tiger & wildlife tour in Central India
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Rupee180000 to Rupee205000
9 days
ex flights
A tour for those who wish to see tigers and other wildlife
Small group2026: 7 Jan, 12 Feb, 4 Mar, 10 May, 28 May
Tiger watching holiday in India
From
£1350 to £1500
9 days
ex flights
A chance to see the majestic tiger in the wild
Tailor made
India tiger safari in Kanha National Park
From
£1750
9 days
ex flights
Budget safari of India, with 12 safaris looking for tigers
Tailor made
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Kanha National Park map & highlights
Kanha’s location in Madhya Pradesh, bang in the middle of India, means reaching it takes time and, usually, various modes of transport. Organised tours might use the train to Jabalpur, 170km away, or the airports at Raipur and Nagpur, but there will always be a drive, too. Many tours include the more accessible Bandhavgarh and Pench National Parks, reducing journey times and providing a range of contrasting park experiences. There are two main gates into Kanha, Mukki and Kisli, with accommodation clustered around each, conveniently close for game drives. These take place in open vehicles, usually with six people, plus a driver and naturalist guide.
Barasingha
1. Barasingha
This endangered species of deer exists in just a few parts of India and Nepal and Kanha National Park is the only place in the world with a population adapted to hard ground, rather than swampy marshland. It’s the state animal of Madhya Pradesh and has recently been adopted by the park as its mascot, in the form of the character Boorsingh the barasingha.
Kanha Museum
2. Kanha Museum
If you have some spare time between game drives and relaxing at your lodge, Kanha Museum is worth a quick visit. It explains more about the park’s background and landscape and also shines a light on its human history, with information on the indigenous tribal people who once lived here, but were moved off the land when the area was made a tiger reserve.
Meadows
3. Meadows
Open grassy meadows are a unique and beautiful feature of Kanha, and attract huge numbers of chital and sambar, who come to feed here. That in turn brings hungry tigers, prowling through the tall grass, in search of a meal. You’ll find good numbers of the rare barasingha swamp deer at Sonf Meadows while tigers are often spotted at Kanha Meadows.
Shravan Tal
4. Shravan Tal
This pond was immortalised in the Indian epic poem, the Ramayana. It’s the spot where devoted son Shravan came to collect water while travelling with his blind parents through the region. King Dashratha, father of Lord Rama, was here hunting. He mistook Shravan for a deer, and killed him with an arrow. It’s a picturesque place and great for spotting birdlife.
Tigers
5. Tigers
A tiger reserve since 1973, Kanha has around 100 Bengal tigers. The largest of the big cats, they can reach four metres in length, but this considerable size doesn’t make them easy to spot. They’re often seen stalking at the edges of meadows. You can guess when one is near – the atmosphere shifts. Animal warning cries fill the air and the tension rises as one slinks into the territory.
Other wildlife
6. Other wildlife
Sadly, some of the animals that marched through Kipling’s Jungle Book are rarely seen in Kanha now – the India wolf, for example – but the park still bustles with wildlife. You’ll easily spot langurs, wild pigs, chital and endangered barasingha deer and, with luck and patience, tigers, Indian wild dogs and huge gaur, or Indian bison. Kanha’s also home to 200 species of bird, from peacocks to vultures.
Our Kanha holidays reviews
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Richard Pantlin29 Nov 2025
Absolutely fantastic and looking forward to going back again in a few years time to photograph more tigers. The tour leader Saurabh is a warm, open, engaging and friendly guy with a great sense of humour who is a trained and very knowledgeable naturalist and keen wildlife photographer who has a wealth of experience in organising and running these tours.read more
Richard Pantlin27 Nov 2025
Absolutely fantastic and looking forward to going back again in a few years time to photograph more tigers. I doubt that you will come across a better Indian tiger safari holiday that visits four different reserves where you will see so much wildlife led by such an experienced professional tour leader.read more
Tania Mills27 Nov 2025
We enjoyed observing all the wildlife in the reserves. The part that I keep replaying in my mind was seeing a tiger appear out of the forest and walk into the lake and start lapping up water.
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Richard Pantlin23 Nov 2025
I doubt that you will come across a better Indian tiger safari holiday that visits four different reserves where you will see so much wildlife led by such an experienced professional tour leader as Saurabh.read more
