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Pugdundee Safaris hotels
Naturalists lead guests through India's tiger habitats on drives, walks and longer cycling journeys.
Pugdundee Safaris is filed in the atlas as seven wildlife lodges, all in central Indian tiger reserves. Ken River Lodge at Panna is dated 1986. Waghoba Eco Lodge at Tadoba is dated 2021, with 14 rooms. The other lodges are at Satpura, Kanha, Bandhavgarh, and Pench.
7 Pugdundee Safaris hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Founded by Manav Khanduja and Shyamendra Singh
- Worldwide: Seven lodges are filed in the atlas, all in Indian tiger reserves. Barahi Jungle Lodge in Nepal, once filed here, belongs to Nepal's Ghale Group and is now filed as independent. Ken River Lodge, at Panna, is dated 1986. Waghoba, at Tadoba, is dated 2021 with 14 rooms.
- On the atlas: 7 Accessible Luxury
History
Pugdundee Safaris is filed in the atlas as seven wildlife lodges, all in central Indian tiger reserves. Ken River Lodge at Panna is dated 1986. Waghoba Eco Lodge at Tadoba is dated 2021, with 14 rooms. The other lodges are at Satpura, Kanha, Bandhavgarh, and Pench.
Timeline
- 1986 — Ken River Lodge, at Panna, is dated 1986 in the atlas.
- 2021 — Waghoba Eco Lodge, at Tadoba, is dated 2021 in the atlas, 14 rooms.
The houses to know
- Tree House Hideaway, Bandhavgarh, India — A Pugdundee Safaris lodge of five or six tree houses on stilts in about 21 acres of forest at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, each named for its tree (Mahua, Tendu, Peepal, Banyan, Palash) and reached by raised walkways.
- Waghoba Eco Lodge, Tadoba, India — Pugdundee Safaris' first lodge outside Madhya Pradesh, opened in October 2021 in the buffer zone of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve near the Khutwanda gate: fourteen one-bedroom cottages, each with a sit-out and a skylit bathroom.
- Kanha Earth Lodge, Kanha, India — A Pugdundee Safaris lodge of twelve cottages built in the style of Gond tribal houses, on 16 acres of forest on the buffer of Kanha Tiger Reserve, about 25 minutes from the Khatia gate.
- Kings Lodge, Bandhavgarh, India — A Pugdundee Safaris lodge on a 14-hectare forested estate about ten minutes from the Tala gate of Bandhavgarh National Park, with ten cottages and eight cottages raised on stilts, each with a verandah over the forest.
- Pench Tree Lodge, Pench, India — A Pugdundee Safaris lodge at Sarahiri, about 20 minutes from the Karmajhiri gate of Pench Tiger Reserve: six tree houses on stilts among mahua trees and ten cottages on a 40-acre forest property.
- Denwa Backwater Escape, Satpura, India — A Pugdundee Safaris lodge of eight cottages and two tree houses on ten riverside acres above the backwaters of the Denwa river dam; guests cross by boat into Satpura National Park, then continue by jeep.
- Ken River Lodge, Panna, India — The lodge where Pugdundee Safaris began: founded in 1986 by Shyamendra Singh, a grandson of the Maharaja of Nagod, on a 50-acre forested estate near Madla on the edge of Panna National Park, with village-style huts, cottages and the Machaan treehouse restaurant over the Ken river.
Newest openings
- None of the open houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- No named unopened lodge was verified.
Every Pugdundee Safaris hotel on the atlas
India
- Denwa Backwater Escape — Satpura · Accessible Luxury
- Kanha Earth Lodge — Kanha · Accessible Luxury
- Ken River Lodge — Panna · Accessible Luxury
- Kings Lodge — Bandhavgarh · Accessible Luxury
- Pench Tree Lodge — Pench · Accessible Luxury
- Tree House Hideaway — Bandhavgarh · Accessible Luxury
- Waghoba Eco Lodge — Tadoba · Accessible Luxury
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