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Kaziranga National Park is a home of the Great Indian One Horned Rhinoceros and a shelter to a variety of wild lives. Kaziranga National Park get inscribed in the World Heritage Site List in 1985. The Kaziranga National Park is situated in the two districts of the river Assam (India) – Golaghat and Nagaon. The park covers an area of approximately 430-sq-kms with its swamps and tall thickets of elephant grass. Photo by: gozef

Beside the Indian Rhino, the other major wild attractions include a large population of Indian Elephants, Indian Bison, Swamp Deer or Barasingha, Hog Deer, Sloth Bears, Tigers, Leopard Cats, Jungle Cats, Otters, Hog Badgers, Capped Langurs, Hoolock Gibbons, Wild Boar, Jackal, Wild Buffalo, Pythons, Monitor Lizards, etc. Photo by: arunchs

Kaziranga National Park is also a birding paradise. Some of them are the Oriental Honey Buzzard, Black-Shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Brahminy Kite, Pallas’s Fishing Eagle, White Tailed Eagle, Grey-Headed Fishing Eagle, Himalayan Griffon, etc. Large numbers of migratory birds descend on the parks lakes and marshy areas during winters, including Greylag Geese, Bar-Headed Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Red-Crested Pochard and Northern Shoveller. Photo by: spo0nman

When to go: Kaziranga is best for a visit from mid-November to early April months. Sub-Tropical Monsoon with average rainfall of 1320 mm and  temperature ranging from 8° C in Winter to 38° C in Summer. Photo by: shankygup