Pench is the forest that inspired Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book — Mowgli’s Seoni — and this video is our jungle safari adventure through it, deep in the tiger country of Madhya Pradesh.
About Pench
Pench National Park and Tiger Reserve straddles the Madhya Pradesh–Maharashtra border, with the classic teak-and-grassland landscape that Kipling turned into legend. On a jeep safari you’re looking for tigers first, but the forest is alive with leopards, wild dogs, deer, gaur and birds.
Planning tip
Pench is about 390 km from Bhopal — a 7–8 hour drive — so it works best as a weekend trip with a night or two near the park and early-morning safaris. Book safari permits well ahead, especially in season.
We tell the full first-hand story — including a dawn leopard at a waterhole — in our Pench Tiger Reserve journal.
