Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site lies partly in Golaghat District and partly in Nagaon District of Assam. It is the oldest park in Assam covers an area of 430 Sq km along the river Brahmaputra on the North and the Karbi Anglong hills on the South.
Kaziranga National Park is famous for the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros as well as many mammals, including tigers, elephants, panthers and bears and hundreds of migratory as well as residential birds like Bengal Florican, Pallas’s Fish Eagle, Swamp Francolin etc. All the excursions into the park will be by open-topped jeep, with regular stops at watch-towers and other vantage points, where you will be treated to some superb panoramic views of the grassland, marshes, and lakes dotted with herds of large mammals and an impressive array of waterbirds. The extensive grassland in the park holds some rare and restricted-range birds. You will have a good chance of seeing the threatened Slender-billed Vulture and Bengal Florican, and may also come across more skulking and rarely seen species such as Slender-billed Babbler and Finn’s Weaver. Scattered throughout the grassland tracts are a series of shallow wetlands which support a good number of waterfowl, waders, and other waterbirds during the winter months, includes the endangered Spot-billed Pelican, Grey, and Purple Heron, Woolly-necked and Black-necked Storks, Lesser and Greater Adjutant etc. The sky will be filled with raptors and you will be on the lookout for Osprey, Black Baza, Pallas’s and Grey-headed Fish- Eagles, Red-headed Vulture, Eastern Marsh, Hen, and Pied Harriers, Greater Spotted Eagle, Changeable Hawk-Eagle and Peregrine Falcon etc. The park is open from November to April and in this period of time, one can enjoy the Elephant ride too, approaching an arms distance of some mammals.
