Kaziranga Tourism
Kaziranga,
is one of the most visited wildlife reserves of India and figures quite often
on the itinerary of the discerning tourists from around the world. There are
several ways of getting to Kaziranga: you can either fly to Jorhat and then
drive to Kaziranga or rent a car or take a bus from Guwahati. The route to this
national park, which is full of wetlands and some forests apart from the tall
elephant grass, is scenic.
One will find and women fishing in the bells or ponds, children diving into
the inviting water on a warm day, coconut sellers hawking their waters by the
roadside and boys on buffalo back in paddy fields, in the near distance, the
blue hills of Arunachal Prdesh beacon you will passé the town of Jagiroad,
where the Assam has an outlet and the town of Nagoan.
14kms from Nogaon is Boroda, the birth place of the Assamese saint and reformer,
Sankardeva, who led a 16th century revival movements of Vaishnavism.
Kaziranga is spread over more than 430sq. kms and is the place where one of
the last creatures of the prehistoric age, the rhinoceros lives. The lumbering
beasts are easy to spot even from the National Highway, which passed by the
sanctuary. They are best viewed fromatop an elephant and there are early morning
elephant rides for tourist, which must be booked in advance at the tourist center
in Kaziranga.
There are jeep safaris as well, and these can be organized at the center. At
the sanctuary, you can sight, herds of wild elephants, the massive wild buffalo,
huge numbers of deer-the hog deer the bara singla or twelve antlered and the
large and stately sambhar. Wildboar abound as do many water birds as well as
migratory species, including hombills, strocks, such as the great Adjutant Strok
cranes
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