Travelling Inside Kanha National Park

Travelling Inside Kanha

Here we take you to the virtual tour to Kanha National Park, one of the finest wildlife destination of India. Located in the magical state of Madhya Pradesh, the Kanha National Park came into existence in the year of 1955 and was later converted into Kanha Tiger Reserve in 1973.

Kanha covers an area of 940 square kilometre along with the buffer zone that is sprawl over an area of 1067 square kilometre and the PhenSanctuary that covers another 110 Square Kilometre, together make the entire Kanha Tiger Reserve. The advantage of travelling to Kanha National Park, it has excellent connectivity via Air, Road and train connections from most parts of India. Kanha has two key locations namely Kanha Safari Gate and Mukki Safari Gate. It is important to note that Khatia entrance gate falls on Mandla district and Mukki on Balaghat district of MP state.

Let’s see the first distance chart from Major Cities of India

Distance	Distance from kanha National Park
Nagpur	300 kilometre 06 to 07 hrs drive
Jabalpur	160 kms / 04 hrs drive
Raipur	250 kms / 05 hrs drive
Bilaspur	250 kms / 05 hrs drive
Bhilai	270 kms / 05 to 06 hrs drive
Bandhavgarh National Park	200 kms / 04 hrs drive
Pench National Park	200 kms / 04 hrs drive

Here’s Distance between Kanha Safari Gates in Kilometres

ZONES	KHATIA	MUKKI	SARHI
KHATIA	---	62	64
MUKKI	62	---	62
SARHI	64	62	---

The Safari Gates Layout for Core and Buffer Zone of Kanha National Park

KANHA ZONE	FULL VEHICLE PERMIT ALLOWED	SINGLE VEHICLE ALLOWED	MORNING	EVENING	MORNING	EVENING
GATES	MORNING	EVENING	28	17	3	2
SARHI	YES	YES	---	---	---	---
KHATIA	YES	YES	---	---	---	---
MUKKI	YES	YES	28	17	3	2

KISLI ZONE	FULL VEHICLE PERMIT ALLOWED	SINGLE VEHICLE ALLOWED	MORNING	EVENING	MORNING	EVENING
GATES	MORNING	EVENING	12	18	---	---
SARHI	YES	NO	---	---	---	---
KHATIA	YES	YES	---	---	---	---
MUKKI	YES	YES	---	2	2	---

MUKKI ZONE	FULL VEHICLE PERMIT ALLOWED	SINGLE VEHICLE ALLOWED	MORNING	EVENING	MORNING	EVENING
GATES	MORNING	EVENING	---	---	---	---
SARHI	YES	NO	23	22	---	---
KHATIA	YES	YES	---	---	---	---
MUKKI	YES	YES	2	2	---	---

SARHI ZONE	FULL VEHICLE PERMIT ALLOWED	SINGLE VEHICLE ALLOWED	MORNING	EVENING	MORNING	EVENING
GATES	MORNING	EVENING	---	---	---	---
SARHI	YES	YES	15	15	2	2
KHATIA	YES	YES	---	---	---	---
MUKKI	NO	NO	---	---	---	---

KANHA BUFFER ZONES – ENTRY GATE INFORMATION

GATES	KHATIA ZONE	KHAPA ZONE	SIJORA ZONE	PHEN ZONE
SARHI GATE	NO	NO	YES	NO
KHATIA GATE	YES	NO	NO	NO
MUKKI GATE	NO	YES	NO	YES
GHURRI BARRIER	NO	NO	NO	YES

BUFFER ZONES & RESTRICTION ON VEHICLES

ZONE	NUMBER OF VEHICLE {MORNING}	NUMBER OF VEHICLE {EVENING}
KHATIA ZONE	25	15
KHAPA ZONE	20	12
SIJORA ZONE	20	12
PHEN ZONE	25	15

Travelling Inside Kanha National Park