We had a wonderful and refreshing trip to Satpura Tiger Reserve Madhai, Tava Dam, and Bhimbetka between 30th January to 2nd February. it was a group trip of medical staff, Dr lahoti sir's family, me and my sister. travelling in a group make the journey refreshing and enjoyable we reached Satpura Tiger Reserve in 6 hours. we stayed in blackbuck resort for 2 nights which is very good with traditional and village atmosphere with lot of greenery and forest area around. Food quality and services are v good. We took three Safari and saw tiger in all three safari along with bear, Bison family, large groups of sambar, chital, barasingha, wild boar and various types of birds. In the whole area lot of gold is hidden in the form of sagon- the whole forest is of Sagon and it is a very dense forest with deapest of silence.

On 1st feb me and my sister went to Tava Dam about 57 km from madhai.we stayed in mp tourism resort river side with water sports like jalpari and speed boat drive, cruise and house boat with 3 rooms to live in.Food and services here are v good. At night food is served in an open area with food cooked in mud pots in chulha in village style with makka, jwar, bajra roti with lot of variety. On 2nd feb morning went to see the tava Dam with 18 gates...with beautiful view of Tava river. On the bank of tava river villagers do watermelon farming and sell fresh water melon. After breakfast we started for bhimbetka rock shelter Unesco world heritage site.It is about 79 km from tava dam.

The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period.It exhibits the earliest traces of human life in India and evidence of the Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times. It is located in the Raisen District in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, about 45 kilometres south-east of Bhopal. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that consists of seven hills and over 750 rock shelters distributed over 10 km .At least some of the shelters were inhabited more than 100,000 years ago.

Some of the Bhimbetka rock shelters feature prehistoric cave paintings and the earliest are dated to 10,000 BCE, corresponding to indian Mesolithic. These cave paintings show themes such as animals, early evidence of dance and hunting from the Stone Age as well as of warriors on horseback from a later time (perhaps the Bronze Age). The Bhimbetka site has the oldest-known rock art in India as well as is one of the largest prehistoric complexes.