10 min from Tala Gate, Bandhavgarh National Park

Activities

What There Is To Do

The forest sets the timetable

Nothing here runs to a schedule for its own sake. The gate is ten minutes away, the forest starts at our own boundary, and most days shape themselves around the light. Below is what guests actually do — take as much or as little of it as you like.

An open safari jeep carrying guests along a narrow track through dense green forest

Jeep Safari

The Tala gate is ten minutes from us, so a morning drive does not begin with an hour in the car. Vehicles leave the farm in the half-light and are inside the park before the forest has finished waking up.

A naturalist rides with you — someone who reads alarm calls and pug marks rather than promising you a tiger. Afternoon drives cover the same ground in reversed light, when the grass turns copper and the waterholes get busy.

A bicycle standing on a leaf-strewn trail through tall, close-growing forest

Cycling Trails

Cycles wait by the cottages. The lanes around Jamunara — the village named for the Jamun trees that still line them — run flat and quiet past fields and hamlets, and the buffer-zone tracks beyond carry far more birdsong than traffic.

Ride out after breakfast while the air is still cool, or in the last hour before dusk. None of it is strenuous. The point is to move slowly enough to hear what is around you.

Four walkers with backpacks heading away down a damp, leaf-covered forest track

Foot Trails

There is natural forest inside our own boundary, which means a walk can begin at the door. Sal, Teak, Mahua and bamboo close in within a few hundred metres, and after the rains the tiger grass comes up green and shoulder high.

Beyond the property a guided buffer trail takes you further out. Sloth bear and wild boar pass through often enough that we walk quietly and in company rather than alone.

Tell us when you can come

Send us your dates and how long you have. We will put together the drives, the walks and the quiet hours in between.

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