The Bandhavgarh National Park is best viewed from the Bandhavgarh fort. At 800 meters the fort offers kaleidoscopic spectacles of the entire wildlife preserve. Do not miss out on this fort that belongs to Maharajas of Rewa and lies well within the vicinity of the national Park. Here the Charganga stream as well as the statues and temples will not fail to catch your eye. Even the Bandhavgarh fort is home to the black bucks. The Bandhavgarh National Park is also dotted with many captivating cave shrines. It is noteworthy that the Brahmi inscriptions on the caves date back to the first century B.C.
The National park is dominated by the ancient Bandhavgarh Fort, located on a plateau and reached after a steep climb. The fort is now in ruins, its monuments and tanks beings gradually reclaimed by the forest, thus providing additional shelter for wildlife such as Black Bucks.
Set amongst the Vindhyas, in Madhya Pradesh, Bandhavgarh is a small national park, but with the highest known density of tiger population in India. This is also known as White Tiger territory. These have been found in the old state of Rewa for many years. The other species found in abundance in Bandhavgarh are the gaur or Indian bison, the sambar, the barking deer and the nilgai.
Bandhavgarh National Park lies on the extreme north- eastern border of the present state of Madhya Pradesh in India and the northern flanks of the eastern Satpuda Mountain range. Latitudes and longitudes are 23°30′ to 23°46′ North and 80°11′ to 36′East. The altitude is between 410 m and 810 m. The geology is soft feldspathic sandstone with quartzite. The soil is generally sandy to sandy-loam. More than twenty streams rise or flow through the park. Of these Umrar (forming the western boundary) is the largest. The other important streams are Johilla (eastern boundary), Janadh, Charnganga, Damnar, Banbei, Ambanala and Andhyari Jhiria. All these streams eventually flow into the river Son, which is an important southern tributary to the Ganges.
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