Pench National Park, immortalized by Rudyard Kipling's classic The Jungle Book, is one of India's premier wildlife destinations apart from its great literary connection. With two of India's four iconic big cats - the Royal Bengal Tiger and the elusive Indian Leopard - Pench offers an unparalleled opportunity to observe these magnificent animals in their habitat. Of late, it has even emerged as the melanistic leopard, or Black Leopard, commonly described as one similar to the iconic character from Kipling's books, Bagheera.
Penched between some of India's finest parks, like Kanha, Bandhavgarh, and Satpura, and having a fine blend of mixed jungle, the place is the Holy Grail for any aficionado of the big cats from all over the world.