Kaziranga national park

Kaziranga National Park, spread across Golaghat and Nagaon districts in Assam, is every wildlife and nature lover’s dream destination and for plenty of reasons. The park, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the very few original natural places in India. Undisturbed by human presence (encroachments), Kaziranga remains a great forest. Also read: Most offbeat wildlife experiences in India for January Here are some interesting facts about Kaziranga National Park you need to know. Kaziranga National Park was first established in1905 as a reserved forest. Later, in 1974, it was declared a national park. Kaziranga became a Tiger Reserve in 2007. It is spread across Nagaon, Golagha and Sonitpur in Assam. The park’s headquarters is in Bokakhat in Golaghat district. However, the tourist centre is in Kohora, just 25 km from Bokakhat. One of the finest wildlife refuges in the world that it is, the park’s efforts towards the conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros has put Assam on the world map. The rhinos have come back from the brink of extinction, with their number now reaching 2613, the largest ever concentration of the one-horned rhinos in the world. Second place goes to Chitwan National Park in Nepal (around 700 rhinos). Kaziranga National Park is also one of the last remaining homes of the endangered and endemic western hoolock gibbon, the only species of apes found in India. Gibbons are one of the most endangered primates in the world. The waters of Kaziranga...

About The Kaziranga National Park or the Kazironga Rastriyo Uddan is a reserved forest and one of the oldest national parks in India that is spread over the districts of Nagaon and Golaghat in the state of Assam. Marked as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this park is famous for one-horned rhinos, that makes up to one-third of their world population. Apart from one-horned rhinos, Kaziranga boasts of being the abode of the highest density of tigers in the world, among the areas marked as tiger reserves. In 2006 it was declared a tiger reserve. The park also shelters wild water buffaloes, elephants, swamp deer and different species of birds, reptiles and amphibians. Located in the vicinity of the Brahmaputra River and Karbi Anglong hill, this wildlife conservation has become one of the most famous and visited spots for tourists because of its combination of natural beauty, fauna and flora at the edge of the Eastern Himalayas. History History says that Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India, visited the area sometime in 1904. She was shocked when she failed to see a single rhino in the area for which it is renowned. Upon her persuasion, Lord Curzon took immediate measures to initiate plans to protect the waning species. The Kaziranga Proposed Reserve Forest was created on 1 June 1905, covering an area of 232 sq km. The next three years saw the extension of the park by 152 sq km. In 1908 it became a reserved forest and in 1916 it was...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kaziranga National park and Tiger Reserve is spread across about 430 sq km in Assam. It is home to the world’s largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros (about 2,500 of them at present), besides elephant (about 800), tigers (131), wild water buffalo, wild boar, hog deer, sambhar deer, and many species of birds, insects, reptiles and more. A range of hotels, resorts and home stays are available in the areas around the fringes of the park. We were staying near the town of Kohora, which is the main entrance to the park; here, within a few minutes’ drive of each other, are gates to the Central and Western Ranges of the park, both of which can be explored through safaris. We chose to opt for both the elephant safari (which is for the duration of one hour and leaves in the morning, about 6:30) and the jeep safari (three hours, from 1:30 to 4:30). The elephant safari let us get closer to rhinos: we saw about a dozen of them within one hour. The jeep safari was more immersive; it took us deeper into the park, and we saw many more species, as well as a far more spectacular landscape. If you have a full day in Kaziranga, I would recommend going for an elephant safari (from Bagori, in the Western Range) in the morning and a jeep safari in the afternoon (from the Central Range) for the most enriching experience. The elephant safari costs a little over Rs 5,000; the jeep safari about Rs 4,000. Set in a serene location, there are safaris at dif...

We recently visited Kaziranga, Assam, the abode of the Indian one-horned Rhinoceros. Indeed, a wonderful place for wild-life lovers. We were lucky enough to be able to see all the big five, as they call it in Kaziranga: The Indian One-horned Rhinoceros, the Asiatic Elephant, the Asiatic Wild Buffalo, the Eastern Swamp Deep (Barasingha) and of course the Royal Bengal Tiger. But that is not all. There are innumerable other animals, birds and various types of flora worth seeing. Just to mention a few; the Western Hoolock Gibon and Langoor monkeys, the various types of deer, the Small-clawed Otters (River otters), the Oriental Pied Hornbill, the Pallas Fish Eagle, the Snake bird…… and the list is unending. The Kaziranga National Park is divided into four zones which we can visit only either in a jeep safari or an elephant safari. It is said that the Royal Bengal Tiger sightings are more common in The Central Zone (Kohora Range). Although we see rhinos in all the zones, we can see them at close quarters in the Western Zone (Bagori Range) which has a large expanse of open pastures. The same is true for the deer family. Elephants and wild buffaloes can also be seen in both these zones. Whereas the Eastern zone (Agaratoli Range) is more famous for sightings of migratory birds. The Burapahar zone/range is the least visited zone and has dense forest areas and it is mandatory to have a forest guard carrying a gun with us in the jeep safari. But, this is the only zone for sighting...

Kaziranga National Park In the heart of Assam, this park is one of the last areas in eastern India undisturbed by a human presence. It is inhabited by the world's largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses, as well as many mammals, including tigers, elephants, panthers and bears, and thousands of birds. Description is available under license Parc national de Kaziranga En plein cœur de l'Assam, le parc de Kaziranga, l'une des dernières zones de l'Inde du Nord qui n'aient pas été modifiées par l'homme, abrite la plus importante population de rhinocéros unicornes du monde, ainsi que de nombreux autres mammifères – tigres, éléphants, panthères, ours – et des milliers d'oiseaux. Description is available under license Национальный парк Казиранга Этот парк, расположенный в центре штата Ассам, является одной из немногих в восточной Индии областей с нетронутой человеком природой. Здесь обитают однорогие носороги (самая крупная в мире популяция этого вида), тигры, слоны, пантеры и медведи, а также отмечены огромные скопления птиц. source: UNESCO/ERI Description is available under license Parque nacional de Kaziranga Situado en el corazón del Estado de Assam, este parque abarca una de las pocas zonas de la India septentrional que no han sufrido alteraciones por la presencia del ser humano. Posee la población de rinocerontes de un solo cuerno más numerosa del mundo, así como muchos otros mamíferos –tigres, elefantes, panteras y osos, etc.– y miles de aves. source: UNESCO/ERI Descri...

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