📍 Heritage🏛️ Historical📍 Cave

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters

Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, India

4.6 (0)

Overview

The UNESCO cave-galleries where humans painted for 30,000 years — bison hunts, dancers and war processions on Vindhyan sandstone.

Why visit: The subcontinent's oldest art, in situ under wild crags.

Things to do

›Zoo Rock gallery
›Auditorium cave
›Stone-age paintings
›Ratapani forest edge

Heritage WalkTrekking

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

₹25–500

Est. budget

₹300–600

Duration

Half day

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Within

6.9 km

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💎 Hidden Gem📍 Tiger Reserve

4.1

Ratapani Tiger Reserve & Delawadi

Raisen, Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal's own tiger forest — the teak hills behind Bhimbetka with Ginnorgarh fort, Delawadi glens and real wild tigers at the city's doorstep.

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Bhojpur (Bhojeshwar Temple)

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Mesolithic paintings above the Narmada and the grand Sethani Ghat below, where Narmada Jayanti lamps set the river ablaze.

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