SUNDERBANS NATIONAL PARK
Sunderbans one of the UNESCO world heritage site is the world’s largest estuarine forest and delta covered by mangrove forests and vast saline mud flats is situated on the lower end of Gangetic West Bengal. A land of 54 tiny islands, criss-crossed by innumerable tributaries of the Ganges that was once infested by Arakanese and Portuguese pirates is now the abode of varied flora & fauna population.
Unlike other wildlife parks, where roads, jeeps & guides provide a semblance of control, here visitors will find themselves holding their breath and stiffening to a state of alertness as their boats glide through the creeks and rivulets, bordered with primeval mangrove forest sheltering the most unimaginable dangers in its impenetrable undergrowth. A unique region where there are no borders to divide fresh from saline water, river from sea. Sunderbans Tiger Reserve was constituted by Project Tiger scheme, in 1973. Sunderbans is the only mangrove forest in the world, which is the home of Tigers.
Unlike other wildlife parks, where roads, jeeps & guides provide a semblance of control, here visitors will find themselves holding their breath and stiffening to a state of alertness as their boats glide through the creeks and rivulets, bordered with primeval mangrove forest sheltering the most unimaginable dangers in its impenetrable undergrowth. A unique region where there are no borders to divide fresh from saline water, river from sea. Sunderbans Tiger Reserve was constituted by Project Tiger scheme, in 1973. Sunderbans is the only mangrove forest in the world, which is the home of Tigers.
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West Bengal
Game viewing by boat and watch towers.
Bengal Tiger, Jungle Cat, Leopard Cat, Fishing Cat, Wild Boar, Chital, Common Otter, Estuarine Crocodile, Water Monitor Lizard, Cobra, Common Krait, Black Capped Kingfisher, Goliath Heron, Lesser Adjutant Stork, Bramhiny Kite etc.
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