İndia Assam, trip travel information
- Places of interest in Patna
Patna Museum: Was built by the British during the British Raj in the year 1917 to house the historical artefacts found in the vicinity of Patna. It is built in the style of Mughal and Rajput architecture. It is called the Jadu Ghar by locals
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It is a multi-purpose museum. The items on display include archaeological objects, coins, art objects, paintings, instruments, textiles, paintings, thankas, bronze images and sculptures and terracotta images of Hindu and Buddhist artists.
- Tourism of Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga is well known for inhabiting rare specie of one-horned Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Unicornis). It also serves as a shelter to a number of other wild life species as well. Spreading on an area of 430 square kilometers, Kaziranga is full of swamps and tall coppices of elephant grass. Kaziranga was declared wildlife sanctuary in 1940.
There are many beautiful birds at the Park. On safari you would chance upon Black-Shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Pallas’s Fishing Eagle, Grey-Headed Fishing Eagle, Oriental Honey Buzzard, Brahminy Kite, White Tailed Eagle, Himalayan Griffon, etc. The migratory birds in this region are Greylag Geese, Bar-Headed Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, Red-Crested Pochard, Falcated Duck and Northern Shoveller.
The tourists can go on a safari either on jeeps or on elephant backs. The trained mahouts guide the visitors through the park. In the jungle the tourists come across many herds of wild elephants.
The best time to visit the Park is from mid-November to early April months. In monsoon months, the mighty river Brahmaputra floods whole of the region and causes the migration of animals living in low lying areas to move to relatively higher regions.
Festivals in Kaziranga National Park
Elephant Festival: The north eastern state of Assam in India organises one of India’s largest elephant festivals for the conservation and protection of Asiatic elephant. The Elepahant Festival of Assam draws a huge number of crowd in the north eastern state of Assam during this period. The gathering is aimed at increasing eco-tourism and raising awareness of the elephant’s struggle for limited resources with man. The objective in holding the festival is to highlight and find ways to resolve the increasing man-elephant conflict.
The Elephant Festival of Assam is organised every year at Kaziranga National Park in Assam, jointly by the Forest Department and Tourism Department, Govt. of Assam. There are various activities by domestic elephants and various cultural programmes performed by the locales to make the event more & more entertaining.The Elephant Festival is a unique event held annually in Assam. The Elephants are groomed to perfection, row upon row of elephants catwalk before an enthralled audience. The elephants move gracefully in procession, run races, play games of various kinds. It is a festival time for the elephants.
- Accommodation Facilities
Wild Grass Jungle Lodge provides 18 double rooms in 2 jungle lodges. Wild Grass Tented Camp provides accommodation in three tents pegged under a high thatched roof amidst an ambience of ruins. The rooms in the Jungle Lodge have attached bathrooms with hot & cold water facilties. Tented Camp has common convenience of bathroom and showers with modern tiles and hot & cold water facility.
The main gate for Kaziranga, at Kohora is on the NH-37. Assam State Transport Corporation and private buses stop here on their way to and from Guwahati, Tezpur and Upper Assam. The park is a 4 hour drive from Guwahati (217 kilometres (135 mi) on the NH-37 and 1.5 hrs from Jorhat (97 kilometres (60 mi).
The Landscape:The land is quite level all over the park, which is mostly covered by dense and tall elephant grass. These large stretches of elephant grass are intermixed by small wetlands left behind by the receding floodwaters of the river Brahmaputra. The park, although quite flat in nature, is set against a backdrop of hills like the Mikir and Karbi Anglong. Book a tour to Kaziranga National Park
- Transportation in Kaziranga National Park
The main gate for Kaziranga, at Kohora is on the NH-37. Assam State Transport Corporation and private buses stop here on their way to and from Guwahati, Tezpur and Upper Assam. The park is a 4 hour drive from Guwahati (217 kilometres (135 mi) on the NH-37 and 1.5 hrs from Jorhat (97 kilometres (60 mi).
- The Ecosystem of the Park
The Landscape:The land is quite level all over the park, which is mostly covered by dense and tall elephant grass. These large stretches of elephant grass are intermixed by small wetlands left behind by the receding floodwaters of the river Brahmaputra. The park, although quite flat in nature, is set against a backdrop of hills like the Mikir and Karbi Anglong. Book a tour to Kaziranga National ParkThe Flora:These picturesque wetlands have an abundant cover of water lilies, water hyacinth and lotus. The vegetation that breaks the monotony of these grasslands are large clumps of semi-evergreen forest. The park is mostly covered with elephant size grass, making it a perfect habitation for the one-horned rhinos.
The Fauna:Indian One-horned Rhinos (900), tigers (50), leopards (20), elephants (700), barasingha or swamp deer (700), barking deer (300), wild boar (700), para or hog deer (7000), Bison (22), Sambar (400), leopard cats, otters(300), Hoolock Gibbons, golden Langurs, Wild Buffaloes (600), Slow Loris, pygmy hog, capped langur and bears (50).
This wildlife sanctuary was established to primarily protect the one-horned Indian Rhinoceroses, though this wildlife park is also home to a number of other wild animals such as sloth bears, leopard cats, hog badgers, elephants, gibbons, Indian bison, porcupines, pythons, wild buffaloes, hog deer, swamp deer and hoolock pigs. There are more than 1000 Rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India. This wildlife park is one of the few places where you can see the one-horned rhino in all its glory during your wildlife tours to Assam, India.
The Fauna:Indian One-horned Rhinos (900), tigers (50), leopards (20), elephants (700), barasingha or swamp deer (700), barking deer (300), wild boar (700), para or hog deer (7000), Bison (22), Sambar (400), leopard cats, otters(300), Hoolock Gibbons, golden Langurs, Wild Buffaloes (600), Slow Loris, pygmy hog, capped langur and bears (50).
Major Wildlife Attractions of Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary
This wildlife sanctuary was established to primarily protect the one-horned Indian Rhinoceroses, though this wildlife park is also home to a number of other wild animals such as sloth bears, leopard cats, hog badgers, elephants, gibbons, Indian bison, porcupines, pythons, wild buffaloes, hog deer, swamp deer and hoolock pigs. There are more than 1000 Rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India. This wildlife park is one of the few places where you can see the one-horned rhino in all its glory during your wildlife tours to Assam, India.