"Yurts, cottages and family villas six kilometres from Kanha’s Mukki gate, with an oval pool and the Bamhni trail"
The Mukki gate is the quiet end of Kanha, six kilometres from this resort, and it opens onto the Kanha, Kisli and Mukki zones of the core. Tathastu Kanha is the chain's smaller property, twenty rooms in three styles with a pool between them.
The yurts are the thing to book: a round Mongolian-style room with a private garden sit-out, a spacious bedroom and a bathroom with a bathtub. The cottages are the straightforward choice for a couple or a family. The family villa sleeps two adults and two children, or four adults, with a sitting area. All rooms are air conditioned with a television and a mini fridge.
A yurt with a bathtub, six kilometres from the Mukki gate.
Vanbhoj is the multi-cuisine restaurant, with a menu the resort says is built on local and traditional recipes. Balli Bar does cocktails. The experiences list adds a bush dinner under the stars and a dinner for two laid under the banyan tree.
The resort's own walk is the Bamhni trail through the forest around it. There are guided village visits, tribal dance evenings, an organic farm to walk, bird watching with the resort's naturalists, a sundowner picnic by the lotus ponds and a bonfire with live music. For the afternoons: an oval pool, camping, cycling, archery, hammocks, life-sized chess and badminton.
Mukki is 6 km and gives entry to the Kanha, Kisli and Mukki zones. The Khapa buffer gate is 11 km. The resort's safari desk books the Gypsy, the permit and the forest guide.
Our take: the sensible mid-priced base on the Mukki side, and the yurt is a room children remember. It suits a family who want the park without a camp's price.
Village Santapur Gudma, Tehsil Baihar, District Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh 481111. Raipur airport is 189 km, about four and a half hours; Jabalpur airport 183 km, about four and a half hours. Gondia railway station is 121 km, about three hours. The Mukki gate is 6 km from the resort.
Kanha from the Mukki side on a family budget, with a pool and a yurt to sleep in.
Twenty: eight yurts, eight cottages and four family rooms.
Mukki, six kilometres away, which gives entry to the Kanha, Kisli and Mukki zones of the core. The Khapa buffer gate is 11 km.
Three styles: Mongolian-style yurts with a private garden sit-out and a bathroom with a bathtub, cottages for couples and families, and family villas that take two adults and two children or four adults. All have air conditioning, a television and a mini fridge.
An oval pool, camping, cycling, archery, hammocks, life-sized chess and badminton. The resort also runs the Bamhni nature trail, guided village visits, tribal dance evenings, bird watching, an organic farm walk, a sundowner picnic by the lotus ponds and a bonfire with live music.
Raipur and Jabalpur airports are each about four and a half hours by road. Gondia railway station is 121 km, about three hours. We can put a car on any of them.
Yes. The resort’s safari desk books the Gypsy, the permit and the forest guide. Permits open 120 days ahead, so book early for the Mukki gate in season.
Tathastu Kanha sits at Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Which gate to use, when the park opens and how the zones are allocated are on the Kanha page. Permit, jeep and guide fees for Madhya Pradesh are in what a safari costs.
The straightforward room, which the resort pitches at families and couples, with air conditioning, television and a mini fridge. Two adults and two children, or three adults.
A round Mongolian-style room with a private garden sit-out, a spacious bedroom and a bathroom with a bathtub. Two adults and two children, or three adults.
Ample space and a sitting area for a family, which the resort lists as its family room. Two adults and two children, or four adults.
A boutique jungle camp on the periphery of Kanha Tiger Reserve, styled on the Jodhpuri shikar tents of old hunting camps crossed with an African safari camp. Quarters come two ways, tented suites and lakeside cottages, each with a bamboo shower and a verandah deck facing the lake. The lake itself is rain-harvested, and the kitchen draws on the camp's own organic garden, cows, hens and bees.
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A lodge in a hundred acres of its own forest adjoining Kanha Tiger Reserve, near Kohka village. Accommodation stays intimate: twelve safari cottages with private verandahs, plus two secluded jungle bungalows, the four-room Perch and the two-room Wildernest. The kitchen cooks with organic produce from the lodge's farms, and the on-site Kanha Museum of Life and Art is worth an hour between safaris.
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Soulacia is a luxury eco-resort at Village Khatia beside Kanha National Park, founded in 2009 on a barren plot that held just four solitary trees and since grown into its own small ecosystem. It sits a two-minute drive from the Khatia entry gate on the Kisli side of the park, with in-house naturalists, solar power and a farm-to-table kitchen.
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