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Mahua Kothi
Nestled in Central India among the picturesque Vindhya and Satpura ranges, Mahua Kothi is housed in one of India's most beautiful national parks, Bandhavgarh National Park. The dramatic landscape features tropical forests and woodlands, and steep rocky hills with flat grasslands in the valleys below. The reserve supports one of the highest densities of tigers on the Subcontinent. Its hilly open terrain includes many large grassland meadows that offer good chances of sightings. The Park is also home to a large variety of mammals: leopard, chital (spotted deer), Sambar deer, nilgai, wild boar, chinkara, sloth bear, rhesus macaque, grey langur, jungle cat, hyena, porcupine, jackal, fox, and wild dog.
The name Mahua Kothi draws its inspiration from one of India's most beautiful trees, the Madhuca Indica, or as it is commonly known, the Mahua or butter tree. Pronounced 'ma-hoo-a', this tree with its fleshy off-white flowers plays a central role in festivals and rituals.
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 This was our last day there and although we had seen tigers, nothing prepaired us for this close up encounter. Our whole aim to come to India was to see the tigers in the wild and in the WILD we did see them
Posted: Mahua Kothi by elisabeth petersen, Date: 28 January 2010
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 We were drawing near the end of our final game drive at Bandhavgarh when we had a close encounter with a magnificent male tiger. My Mum turned as we approached a small bridge to see a tiger crouched in a dip at the side of the road. He was no more than five feet away from the jeep and staring back intently. We had a marvellous sighting and observed some...
Posted: Mahua Kothi by William Evans, Date: 16 December 2009
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 This morning, the dominant male of Bandhavgarh announced its presence, dismissing all the speculation about his whereabouts & wellbeing. Already past the average text book age of an wild tiger, this male stepped out on the grass from a bamboo patch and carried on his regal walk. Nervous Chitals ran and wary Sambars went on giving warning calls which were...
Posted: Mahua Kothi by Durgesh Singh, Date: 21 October 2009
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 Tigers are known to eat grass, supposedly to aid digestion. This is the Dominant Tiger of the North in Bandhavgarh, popularly known as B2 and we spotted him in the grass in Chakradhara meadow, one early morning. He kept sleeping for a long time and eventually woke up, much to our delight! Then he proceeded to eat grass..and kept eating for about ten...
Posted: Mahua Kothi by sarath champati, Date: 1 June 2009
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 We were exploring Panpatha Wildlife Sanctuary, which is a new area in Bandhavgarh. We saw this Shikra dash across into a nullah (stream-bed) and as we hurried to the spot, we saw this unusual sight of a White-throated Kingfisher impaled by the Shikra! The Kingfisher was calling in distress and suddenly a Crested Serpent Eagle, came to perch on a branch...
Posted: Mahua Kothi by sarath champati, Date: 30 May 2009
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 For the first time in the last three years of being in the jungle I saw monkeys jumping in the flowing river and swimming under water!! These rhesus macaque young ones climbed a tree jumped in the river and were swimming up and down the stream, what an amazing sight!
Posted: Mahua Kothi by Himanshu Rathore, Date: 30 May 2009
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 My first ever sighting of a Indian rock python in the wild, while driving down one of the roads in the bandhavgarh jungle I noticed a striking blue colour on the roadside I thought it was an Indian roller which was sitting with its wings open but then I realised that this roller was struggling, as I stopped I saw this amazing sight a rock python was...
Posted: Mahua Kothi by Himanshu Rathore, Date: 21 May 2009
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 seems these cubs have some great luck of getting to play with vultures, once again as we were watching these two cubs in water with their mother we saw that a juvenile vulture fell out from a tree near the water where the cubs were and as soon as they saw it they ran and chased it and soon we saw that the vulture got in water, the cubs curiously started...
Posted: Mahua Kothi by Himanshu Rathore, Date: 9 May 2009
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 Two of the sub adult cubs on their way to the waterhole found a juvenile vulture and decided have a play time with it, they both tapped it around with their paws, the intelligent vulture got in the water and started swimming around like a duck. Here in this picture we can see the cub having a good look at the vulture unable to decide whether to get in...
Posted: Mahua Kothi by Himanshu Rathore, Date: 1 May 2009
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 Always wanted to see tigers give a ramp walk on the famous dam wall of the rajbehra water hole and here i saw three tigers not only give a ramp walk but also drink water from the dam wall itself, was simply an amazing sight I am very happy that i managed to capture this moment.
Posted: Mahua Kothi by Himanshu Rathore, Date: 26 April 2009
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