Bhoramdeo Wildlife Sanctuary

Bhoramdeo Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected forest area in Kabirdham district, Chhattisgarh, near the town of Kawardha and the 11th-century Bhoramdeo Temple. Spread over about 352 sq km in the Maikal Hills of the Satpura range, it forms part of the Kanha-Achanakmar Tiger Corridor. Notable for its mixed deciduous forests, it shelters tigers, leopards, sloth bears, and diverse birds.

Visitors can expect dense sal and mixed deciduous forests in the Maikal Hills with undulating terrain, streams and meadows. The sanctuary offers jeep safaris and nature trails through core and buffer areas where tigers, leopards, sloth bears, wild boar, nilgai, langurs and over 150 bird species may be sighted. Interpretation points, watch towers and forest rest houses are available, and the nearby Bhoramdeo Temple complex adds a cultural stop.

Notified as a Wildlife Sanctuary in 2001, Bhoramdeo Sanctuary was created to protect the forests of the Maikal Hills and to secure the vital Kanha-Achanakmar tiger corridor connecting Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh with Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary in Chhattisgarh.

The sanctuary surrounds the Bhoramdeo Temple complex, an 11th-century Nagara-style temple dedicated to Shiva, often called the Khajuraho of Chhattisgarh. The surrounding forests are traditionally inhabited by Baiga and Gond tribal communities.