Some of the best cave shelters and groups of shelters around Pachmarhi are Dhuandhar approached from the footpath to Apsara Vihar. The paintings, mostly in white, include a group of arches with the typical gond bun and hooped earrings. Another is Bhrant neer (Dorothy deep), it has well executed animal paintings and, when excavated in the 1930s, yielded many pottery shards and microliths. 

In Astachal (Monte Rosa) there are four shelters with paintings, comparatively early linear drawings. Along the northern side of Jambu Dweep valley are some six shelters with many paintings of animals and human figures, including a detailed battle scene. Harper's cave so named because of one of it's paintings - a man seated and playing a harp is close to the Jata Shankar shrine. The chieftain's cave derieves it's name from a battle scene showing two chieftains on horses. A terrace that runs the length of the south, south-east and east faces of kites crag has some fine cave paintaings, the majority of which are in white or outlined in red.