Tips while visiting Bandhavgarh

For those interested in photography, take along as many film rolls as you can because the number of photo opportunities this park offers is enumerable. Remember to arrange the film before hand as you just might have to make the long trip to Umaria if you do not do so. For cameras that use lithium batteries instead of 'aa', it is advisable to go with spares as the availability of these even at Umaria is never a sure thing.

Never go to Bandhavgarh without lots of film-more than you'd expect to use

Photographic opportunities knock at your door around every corner in Bandhavgarh

While you are there, take this opportunity to see the neighbouring villages, which seem to have lost their connection to the present world and are amazing scenes of how to live in harmony with nature. The constitution of the building material used to construct the mud huts is also very different from that seen anywhere else in the country. Specially in it's colour. In most villages elsewhere in India, the colour is a more ocher or orangish in hue, whereas here it more like a dark chololate brown. The villagers, if spoken to nicely, are quite hospitable and a simple "namaskar" gets many high voltage smiles going.