Kaziranga National Park is one of the only two parks in India wherein you could find one-horned rhinoceros. The park stretches up to 430 sq. km. between Nagaon and Golaghat district of Assam. Along with one-horned rhinoceros the national park is also inhabited with tigers, elephants, panthers, bears, wild buffalos and swamp deer.

1. Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India
By - Suraj Nair

2. United 21 Grassland Resort,
Kaziranga, Assam, India
ABOUT KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK
Kaziranga National Park is one of the only two parks in India wherein you
could find one-horned rhinoceros. The park stretches up to 430 sq. km.
between Nagaon and Golaghat district of Assam. Along with one-horned
rhinoceros the national park is also inhabited with tigers, elephants,
panthers, bears, wild buffalos and swamp deer.
The Kaziranga National Park is well known for the single horn rhino. Rhino
Reserve is distinction of being home to the world’s largest population of the
GREAT INDIAN ONE-HORN RHINOCEROS; it is about 1,855 since last count
happen last year.
Kaziranga is one of the few wild breeding areas apart from Africa for
multiple species of large cats like Indian Tigers and Leopards. Because of this
concern, the National Park was declared as Tiger Reserve in 2006.
So, visiting here is great experience for anybody to see the animal in their
natural habitat with full freedom and less human interference.

3. TORTOISES AND TURTLE
Tortoises and turtles are found in the water bodies
inside Kaziranga National Park.
Following turtle are seen here –
 Assam Roofed Turtle
 Brown Hill Tortoise
 Indian Softshell Or Gangetic Turtle
 Indian Peacock Softshell Turtle
 Indian Flapshell Turtle
 Indian Black Turtle
 Keeled Box Turtle
 Malayan Box Turtle
 Narrow Headed Softshell Turtle
 Spotted Pond Turtle
 Oldham's Leaf Turtle

4. FAUNA
According to latest census, it is estimated that tiger density is high in Kaziranga
compared to other National Parks in India. Indian wild boar, eastern mole,
pangolin, Indian gaur, Sambar, barking deer, white browed gibbon, hog deer,
capped langur or leaf monkey, rhesus macaque, Assamese macaque, leopard,
sloth bear, Indian porcupine, fishing cat, jungle cat, large Indian civet, small
Indian civet, Indian gray mongoose, small Indian mongoose, Bengal fox, golden
jackal, common otter, Chinese ferret badger, hog badger, River dolphin, orange-
bellied Himalayan squirrel and Asiatic black bear are also found in Kaziranga
National Park.
Types of snakes found in this park include Black krait, Bengal cobra, banded
krait, common kukri snake, checkered keel back water snake, common or long-
nosed vine snake, copperhead trinket snake, common krait, king cobra, pit
vipers, rock python, Russel's viper, reticulated python, rat snake and striped
keel back snakes.
Lizards are also commonly found in Kaziranga National Park. Types of lizards
include Assam grayish-brown gecko, Assam olive-brown skink, Assam grayish-
brown gecko, common Bengal monitor, common Indian skink, dotted garden
skink, Indian water monitor, light-olive Assam garden lizard, ticticky house
gecko and tuckto gecko.
The types of fishes found in National Park include amblypharyngodon mola,
Anabas testudineus, xenentodon cancila, amphipnous cuchia, catla catla,
bagarius bagarius, channa amphibia, chanda nama, channa marulius, channa
punctata, channa orientalis, channa striatus, clarius batrachus, colisa lalius,
cirrhina mrigala, eutropiichthys vacha, colisa fasciata, glossogobius giuris,
gudiusia chapra, heteropneustes fossilis, labeo calbasu, labeo bata, labeo
rohita, labeo gonius, labeo nandina, mastacembelus armatus, mystus cavasius,
mystus bleekeri, mystus menoda, mystus vittatus, aorichthys seenghala,
nandus nandus, notopterus notopterus, notopterus chitala, ompak pabo,
puntius ticto, salmostoma bacaila, puntius sarana, rasbora elenga, tetraodon

5. You will be thrilled to experience your wild life safari in
here. There are two options of Safari, Elephant and Jeep
safaris. You could choose the option of Elephant safari till
November as you would get a chance to trail in tall
elephant grasses which surely would be a unique
experience. After November the grass die and is burned
so a Jeep Safari would be ideal to spot wild life. There are
many options of accommodations available in and around
the park. From budget hotels to star resorts have been set
up in the area to provide accommodations for tourists.
United-21 Grassland, Kaziranga
Grassland, Harmoti, Bagori Range, Kaziranga, Assam, India
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