Kaziranga National Park

The Kaziranga national park lies entirely in the East of India in the province Assam around the bank of the mighty Brahmaputra River. The park originally created in 1926 and in 1974 declared as the Kaziranga national park. It is included in the list of UNESCO world natural heritage in 1985. The Kaziranga national park spread in an area of 430 km² with up to five meters high elephant grass covering the area at the bank of the wide Brahmaputra.

It is worldwide renowned for the single horn rhinoceros. Around 25 percent of the total rhinoceros existed in the world live here. The rain forests, rivers and extended grass areas offer habitat in addition to numerous other animals such as tiger, elephant, buffalo, king cobra (snake), leopard, gibbon (ape) and many species of birds.