Welcome to the Park of the Week Newsletter for May 9, 2024. This week we’re featuring a park recognized as one of the finest wildlife refuges in the world.
Kaziranga National Park
Location
Assam State in Northeastern India
Claim to fame
Kaziranga National Park is a wildlife lover’s paradise. The park protects and conserves rare and threatened species, including the world’s largest populations of both one-horned rhinos and tigers. The park is also a great place to spot elephants, water buffalo, swamp deer, countless migratory and resident bird species, and several other animals, like the sloth bear, golden langur, and hoolock gibbon.
Reason to visit
Kaziranga National Park is the premier place in the world to see certain animals in the wild, like tigers or rhinos. The park is closed during the monsoon months of May through October, due to the flooding of the Brahmaputra river. The best time to visit is November-February, when the climate is milder and drier and rhinoceroses are easier to spot.
Wild Fact
There are no hiking trails in Kaziranga, in fact hiking is forbidden within the park boundaries because of an abundance of large predators (like tigers). Park wildlife tours are the only way to view this park and its spectacular wildlife.
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