By road
~190-220 km from Guwahati
Northeast India · Assam
Kaziranga, Assam
Rhinos in elephant grass · ~190-220 km from Guwahati
Getting there
By rail
Furkating Junction, ~75-85 km
By air
Jorhat (Rowriah) Airport, ~95-100 km; Guwahati's Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (~215-225 km) is the main gateway
Best time to visit
November to April; park closed in monsoon floods
Don't miss
Central and western safari ranges
Kaziranga orchid park
Nearby tea gardens
Things to do
Jeep and elephant-back safaris
Birding (450+ species)
Tea-estate stops
Where to eat
Sources: open-meteo, wikimedia, Photo: Dr. Raju Kasambe · CC BY-SA 4.0
What to pack
Neutral colours, binoculars, dawn layers, leech socks in edges
A quieter corner
The Brahmaputra riverbank at Bagori range as mist lifts
About Kaziranga
- Riverside
- Forest
Where it is
Kaziranga National Park lies on the floodplains of the south bank of the Brahmaputra in Assam, mainly in Golaghat and Nagaon districts, with the Karbi Anglong hills rising to the south.
History
Kaziranga's protection began after Mary Curzon, wife of the Viceroy of India, visited in 1904 and failed to see a single rhinoceros; it became a proposed reserve forest in 1905 and a national park in 1974. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 and was later declared a tiger reserve.
People
The villages around the park are home to Assamese-speaking farmers, tea-garden communities and Karbi and Mising people. Bihu, Assam's harvest and new-year festival, fills the spring with dancing to the dhol drum and the pepa, a pipe made from buffalo horn.
Known for
- The greater one-horned rhinoceros
- Jeep and elephant safaris in tall grassland
- Wild water buffalo, elephants and swamp deer
- Birds of the wetlands and grasslands
- Tea gardens along the park's edge
Did you know?
Kaziranga holds the world's largest population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros and more than half of all the world's wild water buffalo.
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