It was time to fix a car for 10 days to travel for rest of the trip and we have found even the caretakers in FRH were trying the play the middleman’s role in this regard. The Car is again a bargain, we got some nice deals especially with Tavera where almost 1700km travel and 10 nights were negotiated at flat 18000, but later decided to go for an Innova as that suits our need better and the driver cum owner Dinesh Namdeo was turned out to be a nice person. We paid around 23K all inclusive for 10 days for this car which was really in good condition and that was much more than what MP Tourism quoted us for same itinerary which was close to 30K including their 10% service charge for an Innova. Unless you are very hard pressed for time, there was no point in getting cars from MP Tourism, neither you should take the safari arrangements from them. They just book a private Jeep/Car for you which you yourself could do in a better rate and on top of that would charge you 10% extra as service charge.

We took Umaria-Shapura-Dindori-Amarkantak around 220km in an extremely good road averaging almost 90kmph.Except in some stretches between Mandla and Jabalpur everywhere the road condition was simply superb.

Amarkantak is a temple town with lots of temples around it and the place from where 2 major Indian rivers Son and Narmada originates. It’s scenic as well with hills, waterfalls and nice landscapes that you can enjoy. The 8th century temples are simply brilliant. MP Tourism here is the only good accommodation option though with not so good food.

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