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Kerala
Ponmudi is a hill in the Western Ghats in Thiruvananthapuram district, and the Forest Department runs it as an eco-tourism site with a paid entry ticket.
Vagamon is tea gardens, meadow and pine forest on the Kottayam–Idukki border, about 1,100 m up.
Sikkim
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
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…
Jharkhand
Netarhat is among the highest points of the Chotanagpur plateau, in Latehar district, and it has been called the Queen of Chotanagpur for long enough that the…
Chhattisgarh
A hill station that is also a small village, in Surguja district in the north of the state.
Tripura
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…
India's first mixed World Heritage site, listed in July 2016 for its nature and its culture together, which is the unusual part.
Arunachal Pradesh
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…
Telangana
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…
Assam
India's largest surviving stretch of lowland rainforest sits here, 231 square kilometres of dipterocarp forest across Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, part…
Andhra Pradesh
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…
Nagaland
Kiwi, avocado and persimmon are what this town trades in, moved out along National Highway 29, and a fruit economy is a more interesting thing to walk into…
Himachal Pradesh
Two names worth remembering here are Blossom and Jhaja, where the sambar, goral and cheer pheasant actually turn up.
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…
Coal built this town, and the mines are still the first thing anyone mentions about it, which sits oddly beside the local billing of Chhattisgarh's Jannat.
The state capital is an administrative town before it is anything else: the legislative assembly, the seat of government, and the Gauhati High Court's…
Meghalaya
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…
The name is not about birds of prey: it comes from the Red Eagle Division of the Indian army, posted here in the 1950s.
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Look at the back of a twenty-rupee note: that picture was taken here.
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…
Few places in India can list a Bengal tiger and a snow leopard on the same sheet.
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.
Chandigarh
The parrots keep their own timetable, flying out in flocks in the morning and coming back in the evening.
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…
Uttar Pradesh
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…
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…
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…
Haryana
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…
The Myntdu river wraps around three sides of the plateau this town sits on, which is the most striking thing about a place that is otherwise a working…
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…
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…
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…
Travelling through Ao country, you will route through Mokokchung whether or not it interests you: this is the district headquarters, the main urban hub, and…
West Bengal
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…
Mizoram
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…
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