Kaziranga National Park lies on the floodplain of the Brahmaputra in Assam. It was first protected in 1905 and became a national park in 1974. UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage Site in 1985, and it is also a tiger reserve and an Important Bird Area.
Tall elephant grass, swamps and patches of forest give shelter to more than half of the world's greater one-horned rhinos, along with wild water buffalo, eastern swamp deer and about 1,940 elephants. Flooding during the monsoon is part of the natural cycle: up to 70-80% of the park can go under water for days at a time, and animals move to higher ground.
UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985)
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The largest land animal in Asia, living in herds led by an older female.
A deer with branching antlers that lives on the wet grasslands of the northeast.
An armour-plated giant of the Brahmaputra floodplain, and the symbol of Kaziranga.
The park holds the world’s largest population. The 2,401 figure is from the 2015 count.
A heavy, wide-horned wild ancestor of the domestic water buffalo.
Around 57% of the world’s wild buffalo live here.
India's national animal and the reason most visitors come to a safari.
Tigers are present, but tall grass makes them hard to see.
Distances and travel times are approximate. Closure dates and permit rules change, so confirm them with the forest department before you book.
From 1 November to 30 April. It closes for the monsoon.
No. Hiking is not allowed, and visits are by jeep or elephant.
Jorhat airport, around 90-105 km from Kohora.
Mary Curzon visited the area, found few rhinos and urged her husband to protect them.
The first reserve was created, covering 232 sq km.
The reserve was renamed.
Declared a national park on 11 February.
UNESCO inscribed the park.
The park was notified as a tiger reserve (some sources say 2007).
In 1904 Mary Curzon, wife of the Viceroy Lord Curzon, visited Kaziranga hoping to see a rhino and left without one. She urged her husband to act, and a reserve forest was created the next year.
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