Wildlife & Safari

Kaziranga National Park, Assam

Sundarbans National Park, West Bengal

Bhimashankar, Maharashtra

Gir National Park, Gujarat

Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan

Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand

Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh

Chilika & Rambha Coast, Odisha

Chitrakote Falls (Bastar), Chhattisgarh

Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh

Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh

Dachigam National Park, Jammu & Kashmir

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Ranthambore Fort

Ranthambore National Park

Ranthambore Fort

A tenth-century Chauhan fort standing inside the tiger reserve, founded under Sapaldaksha and added to by the kings who followed him, UNESCO-listed since 2013 with the other hill forts of Rajasthan. It sits high enough to give the clearest view there is over the park below. Entry is free and separate from the safari, because the Ganesh temple inside is a working shrine receiving pilgrims — which makes this the one part of Ranthambore you can walk into without a permit or a jeep booking. It is a real climb, with langurs along the path who are entirely used to people carrying food.

Kanha & Kisli Zones

Kanha National Park

Kanha & Kisli Zones

Prime safari zones for tigers and barasingha across sal forest and meadows.

Corbett Museum

Jim Corbett National Park

Corbett Museum

The naturalist's former home, now a museum on his life and work.

Nalabana Bird Sanctuary

Chilika & Rambha Coast

Nalabana Bird Sanctuary

A lagoon island that hosts huge flocks of migratory birds.

Periyar Lake Boat Cruise

Thekkady (Periyar)

Periyar Lake Boat Cruise

The reserve's main safari runs on large passenger boats, following the winding arms of the lake and watching for wildlife.

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Sikkim

Varsey Rhododendron Sanctuary

A 104 sq km sanctuary in the Singalila Range in western Sikkim, running up against Nepal to the west and, to the south, West Bengal across the Rambong Khola…

Manipur

Manipur Zoological Garden

The reason to come is the Sangai, the brow-antlered deer that lives nowhere else, and this is the only place to see one apart from Keibul Lamjao, the floating…

Tripura

Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary

North Tripura's sanctuary sits close enough to Panisagar that the town presses on it from every side, and the record is blunt about it: significant…

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Mount Harriet National Park

Look at the back of a twenty-rupee note: that picture was taken here.

Andhra Pradesh

Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary

The tide runs this place. The forest floods at least twice a day, and the mangroves hold themselves clear of the water on a tangle of stilt-like prop roots…

Arunachal Pradesh

Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary

Few places in India can list a Bengal tiger and a snow leopard on the same sheet.

Assam

Dehing Patkai National Park

India's largest surviving stretch of lowland rainforest sits here, 231 square kilometres of dipterocarp forest across Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, part…

Assam

Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary

The hoolock gibbon, India's only ape, lives in this patch of evergreen forest, calling from the hollong trees that dominate the upper canopy, and you are far…

Assam

Dibru-Saikhowa National Park

Water sets the terms here. The park lies between the Brahmaputra and Lohit in the north and the Dibru in the south, at an average of 118 metres, and it holds…

Chhattisgarh

Kanger Valley National Park

Roughly 200 square kilometres of Bastar, running about 33.5 km from the Teerathgarh waterfalls in the west to the Kolab river on the Odisha boundary, and only…

Chandigarh

Parrot Bird Sanctuary, Chandigarh

The parrots keep their own timetable, flying out in flocks in the morning and coming back in the evening.

Chandigarh

Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary

Plan this one before you turn up. The 2,600-hectare preserve in the Shivalik hills near Sukhna Lake admits only a limited number of visitors and requires an…

Himachal Pradesh

Chail Sanctuary

Two names worth remembering here are Blossom and Jhaja, where the sambar, goral and cheer pheasant actually turn up.

Haryana

Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, Pinjore

Five acres inside the Bir Shikargah sanctuary, 8 km out of Pinjore, holding the world's largest breeding programme for Indian vultures — and, since the house…

Haryana

Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary

Semi-arid Aravalli forest straddling the Delhi border into the Faridabad and Gurugram districts — 32 sq km of it, and one of the last pieces of the Delhi…

Haryana

Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra

Muggers, and only muggers — the freshwater crocodile native to India — bred at Bhor Saidan village on the Kurukshetra-Pehowa road, 13 km out from the old…

Jharkhand

Palamau Tiger Reserve

Jharkhand has exactly one tiger reserve and this is it, about 1,130 square kilometres across Palamu, Latehar and Garhwa, with Betla National Park inside its…

Meghalaya

Baghmara Pitcher Plant Wildlife Sanctuary

The protected species here is a plant. Nepenthes khasiana, called Me'mang-Koksi or ghost basket locally, is an endangered pitcher plant, and this small…

Meghalaya

Balpakram National Park

Land of the eternal wind is what the name means in Garo myth, and at around 910 metres up against the Bangladesh border in the South Garo Hills, you can see…

Manipur

Shirui National Park

One flower carries this park. The Shirui lily grows naturally on these slopes, and it is what most people make the journey up to Ukhrul for.

Sikkim

Khangchendzonga National Park

India's first mixed World Heritage site, listed in July 2016 for its nature and its culture together, which is the unusual part.

Telangana

Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park

This was a prince's estate before it was a park. The palace complex went to Mukarram Jah at his coronation in 1967, and only in 1998 did the state declare its…

West Bengal

Ramnabagan Wildlife Sanctuary

Set your expectations to the size of the place and this is a decent hour out: 14.31 hectares of teak and sal inside Bardhaman, with spotted deer and common…

Arunachal Pradesh

Sessa Orchid Sanctuary

Start at the nursery. It holds representative specimens of the sanctuary's orchid species along with a demonstration farm of Cymbidium hybrids grown for cut…

Arunachal Pradesh

Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary

The name is not about birds of prey: it comes from the Red Eagle Division of the Indian army, posted here in the 1950s.

Manipur

Keibul Lamjao National Park

No other national park in the world floats. The surface here is phumdi, mats of decomposed plant material, and the forty square kilometres of it are an…

Manipur

Yangoupokpi-Lokchao Wildlife Sanctuary

The interest here is where it sits: right on the Indo-Myanmar border in Chandel district, at the seam where two major geographical zones meet, so the forest…

Mizoram

Lengteng Wildlife Sanctuary

Birds are the reason this one exists. Lengteng was made a protected area in 1999 and a national wildlife sanctuary by the Ministry of Environment and Forests…

Uttar Pradesh

Patna Bird Sanctuary

Come in winter, or don't come. The lake here is small: a single square kilometre of water inside a sanctuary of 1.09, which makes it the smallest bird…

Maharashtra

Kihim Beach

Situated just 12 km north of Alibaug town, Kihim is easily accessible via the ferry route from Mumbai to Mandwa.