Overview

Amarkantak is situated in Madhya Pradesh in India. Amarkantak is a pilgrim town and a Nagar Panchayat in Anuppur district. Also called "Teerthraj" (the king of pilgrimages), Amarkantak region is a unique natural heritage area and is the meeting point of the Vindhyas and the Satpuras 

The beautiful Amarkantak plateau is in the midst of a moist sal tree and mixed forest. A little distance from Gaumukh, the source of the Narmada, is Kapildhara, where the Narmada leaves Anuppur District and enters Dindori District by cascading more than 20 metres down a sheer basalt rock.

Two sacred rivers,  the Sone and Narmada, were born in Amarkantak. It is a very famous pilgrim town with wide-open, well watered, meadows and sunlit sal forests alive with springs and brooks. 

The nearest railway stations are Anuppur and Pendra Road 43 km via Keonchi and only 28 km via Jwaleshwar. The nearest Airport is Dumna Jabalpur (Jabalpur Airport in the city of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (240 km).