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Pench National Park – An Awesome Spectacle Of Wilderness

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Pench National Park situated in Aravali, Satpura, Vindhyachal and Satpura ranges. Pench National Park , named after the Pench River, is a teak forest and is greatly famed for the scenic beauty and awesome landscape. It has a very attractive and dense undergrowth of trees especially the Teak. The ways are very smooth making the great population for the herbivores. The park has many species of animals among which wild guars, tigers, leopard, monkeys, and deer, etc., are easily observed. Pench national park is nearby from Pauni on National Highway 7 and very close to Maharashtra & Nagpur. There are two popular gates for tourist entry, which is named as Turiya and Karmajhiri. Pench National Park is located at the border of Madhya Pradesh on one side and on the other side it is in Maharashtra. The Pench National Park is very popular for the abundance of flora and fauna found within the park as the various species of wildlife. Pench National Park was declared as a Wildlife Sa...

Interesting Facts About Pench National Park

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History of Pench National Park Pench National Park or Pench Tiger Reserve is the first one of the premier tiger reserves of India and one of the premiers to straddle across two states- Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Pench National Park is located in the heart of India- Madhya Pradesh and covers a total area of 758 sq.km. It is located on the southern part of Madhya Pradesh, to be specific, in the districts of Seoni and Chhindwara, which also shares a boundary with Maharashtra. An additional area of 257 sq.km of this park lies in Maharashtra but is also accessible from Madhya Pradesh. A treasure of rich flora and fauna, this national park has its area segregated in two divisions- a) Priyadarshini National Park and Mowgli Pench Sanctuary which covers an area of 299 sq.km and b) 464 sq.km which is considered as the buffer area. The national park is named after the river- Pench, which while flowing from north to south, divides the national park into almost equal halves namely eastern...