ACTIVITY: Game Drive + Elephant Ride
Early morning Elephant Ride (Either Central “KOHORA” or Western Range “BAGORI”)
(Optional: Unless it is mentioned in the inclusion).
Probable sighting during the Elephant Ride: One Horn Rhino is the major attraction, apart from that other species are Hog Deer, Swamp Deer, Asiatic Water Buffalo, Asian Elephants and if you are lucky then Royal Bengal Tiger. Later return back to hotel/Resort for breakfast.
Ride timings: 5.30 AM/6.30 AM/ 7.30 AM
After breakfast you can visit “Kaziranga orchid and Biodiversity Park” and Tea Garden. Even visit Hathikhuli Tea outlet – for direct tea retail outlet by Hathikhuli Tea Garden for organic CTC and organic Green Tea.
Afternoon 2.00 PM you will have JEEP SAFARI/GAME DRIVE in Central range/Western Range.
(Optional: Unless it is mentioned in the inclusion).
Optional: Bihu Dance/ Karbi Dance (For groups and had to be pre booked)
Accommodation: Hotel/Resort in Kohora.
TERRAIN: Plains
Kaziranga National Park , A World Heritage Site covering 430 square kilometres on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra, 217km east of Guwahati, occupies a vast valley floor against a backdrop of the Karbi Anglong Hills. Its rivulets, shallow lakes and semi-evergreen forested highlands blend into marshes and flood plains covered with tall elephant grass teeming with deer and wild buffalos. However, the big draw, is the park’s famous yet highly endangered one-horned rhinos, best observed from the back of an elephant first thing on a winter’s morning. Tiger sightings are relatively rare, despite the park’s official claim to have the highest density of tigers of any park in the world. Jeeps take you deeper into the forest than elephants, but cannot get nearly as close to the rhinos and buffalo. The abundant birdlife includes egrets, herons, storks, fish eagles, kingfishers and a grey pelican colony.
It has become synonymous with successful conservations of Great One Horn Rhinoceros / Unicornis and also a home of many other threatened species including Indian Elephant, Royal Bengal Tiger, Hoolock Gibbon, Ganges dolphin, Sambar, Barasingha or Swamp Deer, Hog Deer, Indian Muntjac, Water Buffalo and Gaur etc. Among the reptiles’ species like Water Monitor Lizard, Indian python, Cobra and the King Cobra are found.