Unexplored Bastar

Name: Unexplored Bastar
Address: Jagdalpur, IN
Telephone: 09109188567

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Unexplored Bastar is a travel startup based on social entrepreneurship model from Bastar, Chhattisgarh.

It is focused on sustainable tourism through community-based approach. We are exploring the hidden and unexplored places in Bastar. We are also offering services like trekking, hiking, adventure sports and customized tour packages to the tourist as per their liking's.

14/08/2026

This Independence Day feels different for Bastar.

For decades, this land carried its struggles quietly. And yet - the waterfalls never stopped thundering, the ancient stones stood watch through it all, and the people never stopped dancing, never stopped believing in a brighter tomorrow.

Today, as the Tiranga rises over Bastar, we see a new dawn. A happier Bastar. A hopeful Bastar.

We're proud to walk this journey alongside the Muria, Dhurwa, Bison Horn Madiya and Halba communities - the true keepers of this land.

Happy Independence Day from all of us at Unexplored Bastar. 🇮🇳

Together, we grow.

23/07/2026

Most people spend 15th August indoors. We spend it on a hilltop in Bastar.

The Chhattisgarh Freedom Trek is built around one moment - a seven-kilometre climb through Dholkal's forested slopes, timed to reach the summit on the morning of Independence Day. Monsoon mist, wet forest, and a stone Ganesh waiting at the top.

Around it, three days of Bastar at its greenest: Tirathgarh Waterfalls dropping nearly 300 feet inside Kanger Valley National Park, the stalactite caves of Mandarkonta, Barsoor's centuries-old temples, the Danteshwari Shakti Peeth at Dantewada, and Chitrakote in full flow.

14–16 August 2026 · 3 days / 2 nights
Small group of 4–10, local guides, eco resort stays, all meals from lunch on day one.

Can't make these dates? We also build private departures around your own.

Comment "FREEDOM" for the full itinerary, or message us on WhatsApp: wa.link/bstetq

Come as a traveler, leave as a part of Bastar.

16/07/2026

Today, the chariots roll through Jagdalpur.

The drums, the marigolds, the Tupki raised to the sky - and the moment the whole of Bastar waits for: Lord Jagannath's eyes are opened.

For 610 years, this land has kept the same promise, every monsoon.
To everyone celebrating - near or far - we wish you peace, faith, and togetherness this Goncha. 🪔

From all of us in Bastar, to all of you.
Come as a traveler, leave as a part of Bastar.

11/07/2026

You've watched Ravana burn every Dussehra of your life. In Bastar, he never has.

For more than six centuries, the tribal heart of Chhattisgarh has celebrated a Dussehra unlike any other in India - the longest in the world, running a full seventy-five days. It isn't about Ram's victory over Ravana. It's for the goddess Danteshwari. No effigy is burned. And it cannot even begin until a girl from the Mirgan community, believed to carry the goddess, grants the royal family her permission.

A king, waiting on the word of a tribal girl. That's Bastar Dussehra.

This October we take a small group of travellers into its final, most powerful days - the year-in-the-making chariot, Nisha Jatra, Mawli Parghaw, and the Raini nights - alongside Chitrakote and the caves of Kanger Valley.

17–21 October 2026 · Jagdalpur · only 10 travellers.

Full details: unexploredbastar.com/trip/bastar-dussehra-festival-tour
Or message us "DUSSEHRA" and a real person will take it from there.

30/06/2026

Most travellers in India treat the monsoon as a season to wait out. In Bastar, it's the season worth waiting for.

When the rains arrive, the whole region changes character. Tirathgarh Falls swells and splits into a dozen threads down a hundred feet of rock. Streams that vanish in summer come roaring back. And in Kanger Valley - while the monsoon floods and closes the better-known caves - Mandarkonta stays open, a quiet, dripping world of formations that have been growing in the dark for ages.

For over a decade we've taken small groups into this landscape with the people who call it home. This July, we're doing it at the height of the monsoon.

🌿 Bastar Monsoon Getaway 2026
📅 17, 18, 19 July
👣 Tirathgarh · Mandwa · Mandarkonta Caves
🎟️ Small group - limited seats

Comment MONSOON, or message us to reserve your place.

Come as a traveler, leave as a part of Bastar.

19/06/2026

There's a version of Bastar that only exists in the rain.

For about ten weeks a year, the forests of central India fill with water, and waterfalls most travellers have never heard of begin to thunder. Chitrakote - the widest waterfall in India - swells to nearly 300 metres across. Tirathgarh falls in three tiers. Dozens of smaller falls appear on cliffs that were dry a month ago.

This is India's rawest season: green, alive, and almost empty of tourists. After ten years here, it's still our favourite time to bring people in - past the famous viewpoint, into the forests, waterfalls and tribal heartland of Bastar.

Monsoon tours are now open — 3 to 5 days, from.
Pack your bags; leave the logistics to us.

Message us on WhatsApp: wa.link/bstetq
Or comment "MONSOON" and we'll reach out.

Come as a traveler, leave as a part of Bastar.

Check here
https://unexploredbastar.com/trip/bastar-monsoon-waterfalls-tour/

31/05/2026

In 1408, a king of Bastar named Maharaja Purushottam Dev walked into Jagannathpuri as a pilgrim.

He came for darshan. He returned with a 16-wheeled chariot, a royal title - Rathadhipati - and 360 Brahmin families who would never see Odisha again.

Those families settled in the forests of Central India. Within a generation, their children were speaking Halbi - the language of the Bastar tribes. Not Odia. Bastar had absorbed them completely.

The chariot they brought became the heart of a festival that this region has celebrated, without interruption, for 617 monsoons.
It's called Goncha.

And almost no one outside Bastar knows it exists.

Every June or July, the streets of Jagdalpur fill with processions, drums, and thousands of people carrying bamboo Tupkis - mockery guns made from hollow bamboo, firing wild forest fruit at each other as a Guard of Honour for Lord Jagannath. This tradition exists nowhere else in the country.

This July 16, we're going for the 10th time.
If the idea of being inside a 610-year-old living tradition - not watching it, but being in it - feels like the kind of travel you've been looking for, read the full story of Goncha here:
👉 unexploredbastar.com/goncha-festival

Tour details: unexploredbastar.com/trip/bastar-goncha-festival-tour

25/01/2026

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04/10/2025

Bhitar Raini takes place on Vijayadashmi and is one of the decisive public moments of Bastar Dussehra. On this night the great rath (chariot) completes its ceremonial parikrama through Jagdalpur as part of the Vijayadashmi rites.

After the parikrama, a long-standing local custom unfolds: custodial groups take the chariot to Kumhadakot. Traditionally the royal household then proceeds to Kumhadakot to celebrate Navakhani (the new-grain / harvest ritual), and the chariot remains part of this ritual cycle before being brought back near the palace in the following procession.

Seen together, Bhitar Raini is not simply a procession; it is a sequence that links public devotion, harvest rites and royal ceremonial practice - a clear example of how Bastar Dussehra blends tribal customs, agriculture and palace ritual into a living tradition.

Watch our reel to see this whole sequence - the parikrama, the movement to Kumhadakot and the Navakhani moment - captured on the ground.

For guided cultural visits and responsible access during the festival, contact:
www.unexploredbastar.com
+91 91091 88567 / 83700 78567

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