PRIDE OF ASSAM- KAZIRANGA AND MANAS NATIONAL PARK

KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK:

Located on the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra River in the far North East of India, Assam.Kaziranga National Park covers an area of approximately 430 sq. Kms with its swamps and tall thickets of elephant grass making it the ideal habitat for the Indian One-Horned Rhino. Due to limitless poaching of this prehistoric survivor, the Kaziranga National Park was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1940. Kaziranga National Park is a briding paradise; the grasslands are a raptor country that can be seen on safari makes a remarkable experience. These include the Oriental Honey Buzzard, Black-Shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Brahminy Kite, Pallas’s Fishing Eagle, Shite Tailed Eagle, Grey-Headed Fishing Eagle, Himalaya Griffon etc. Huge numbers of migratory birds descend on the parks lake and marshy areas during winters, including Greylag Geese, Bar-Headed Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Red-Crested Pochard and Northern Shoveller.

One-Horned Rhino

The star attraction of this park is the famed one Horned Indian Rhino, the other major wild attractions include a large population of Asiatic Indian Elephants, Indian Bison, Swamp Deer or Barasingha, Hog Deer, Sloth Bears, Royal Bengal Tigers, Leopard Cats, Jungle Cats, Otters, Hog Badgers, Capped Langurs, Hoolock Gibbons, Wild Boar, Jackal, Wild Buffalo, Pythons, Monitor Lizards etc.

        Kaziranga’s visiting season is from mid-November to early April months. During the monsoons, the Brahmaputra River bursts its banks, flooding the low-lying grasslands and causing animals to migrate to the Karbi Anglong hills or they move on to the numerous artificial hillocks spread out in the Park itself. It is 217 km away from Guwahati Airport and the other Airport is Jorhat which is 97 km away from Kaziranga National Park. 


MANAS NATIONAL PARK:

Manas National Park in Assam is situated on the foothills of the country’s Himalayas and a part of it continues across the international border into Bhutan, where it is known as the Royal Manas National Park. Covering an area of 391 sq.km, the Manas National Park was declared a sanctuary on 1^st October’1928 and later it was designated as a World Heritage Site in December’1985.

MANAS NATIONAL PARK

          The Assam Manas National Park with its picturesque beauty and incomparable wealth of wildlife offers one of the most enthralling experiences. The sanctuary also a world heritage site is home to a great variety of wildlife, including Tiger, Golden Langur, Wild Buffalo, Hispid Hare, Pigmy Hog, Capped Langur, Indian one-horned Rhinoceros, Elephant, Gaur, Hog Deer, the endangered Bengal Floricana, etc.

          Manas known for its Project Tigers, Rhinos & Elephants, and is Assam’s one of the two Tiger Projects has had quite a success story with former insurgents belonging to different militants groups and poachers laying down their guns only to pick them up again only this time to protect the same animals they once hunted almost to extinction. But with the new zeal that the forest authorities have undertaken Manas is all set to regain its lost glory as the jewel of the east when it comes to Tiger Conservation and wildlife. A must travel for genuine wildlife enthusiast.

HOW TO REACH: Manas is 176 Km form Guwahati, Nearest Airport in Guwahati. Nearest Railhead is Barpeta Road, 41 km from Manas.

WHERE TO STAY: There are several Guest House alongside the sanctuary, TNT Recommends Bansbari Lodge Managed by Jungle Tours and Travels. Another option is the Government run Guest House within the sanctuary premises.