Bandhavgarh Jungle Camp

The Bandhavgarh Jungle Camp is a resort ideally located right opposite the park's main entrance. This resort offers 12 luxurious tents spread out over a large area to give you a true feeling of the jungle. The tents are large and have attached washrooms with western style toiletsa and baths. They are carpeted and kept spic 'n' span by the efficient staff. The tents are set up for accommodating two people but an extra bed can be added for a triple sharing requirement.

The resort offers luxurious tented accommodation with excellent facilities

The resort has a well stocked bar with the drinks served to you by very courteous staff

Room service is available and sipping tea while sitting outside your tent, watching the hundreds of birds in the trees around, is a pleasurable experience. There is a dining hall where dinner is served in buffet system. The meals are excellent and service courteous. The resort also offers a bar facility but prices of drinks are pretty steep. So check before you order those second and third rounds! The resort is also well stocked with the basic medicines and bottled drinking water.

A bonfire is organised every evening in the winters at the "Golghar" which is a covered circular sitting area among the trees. This is where maximum jungle stories exchange hands.

The resort offers a "Jungle Package", which includes the accommodation, meals, safaris, transfers, guide fees and elephant rides. You have to pay seperately for your camera fees and drinks taken at the resort. The charges for this package during the 2000-01 season were Rs. 3500/- per day per person.

Winter evenings are spent exchanging stories around a bonfire at the "Golghar"

Another added advantage of staying at the Bandhavgarh Jangle Camp is that the guys looking after the place are themselves genuine wildlife enthusiasts and the camp has it's own nature experts.