Elephant & Rhino Country
Wildlife & Safari
Assam's grasslands and the southern elephant corridors — the big herbivores, not the cats.
5 places
Assam
Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga National Park is a vital wildlife conservation sanctuary spanning over 430 square kilometers of alluvial floodplains along the southern banks of the Brahmaputra River in Assam. The unique landscape comprises a dense marshy terrain dominated by towering elephant grass, shallow reed swamps, and open sal forest canopies. The national park is known for hosting over two-thirds of the world's entire surviving population of the endangered Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros. The reserve floor operates under strict environmental regulations, split systematically into four safari ranges. Bagori range remains popular for early morning elephant-back safaris, allowing close, safe tracking lines to observe rhinos grazing peacefully in the high morning mists.
Assam
Manas National Park
Manas National Park, in the Himalayan foothills of Assam on the border with Bhutan, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, tiger reserve, elephant reserve and biosphere reserve in one. Its grasslands and forests along the Manas river shelter tigers, rhinos, wild elephants and rare species such as the pygmy hog, golden langur and Bengal florican.
Assam
Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary
Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Morigaon district of Assam near Guwahati, is famed for having the highest density of one-horned rhinos in the world. Its compact grasslands and wetlands are packed with rhinos and are also excellent for wild buffalo, leopards and migratory birds.
Kerala
Thekkady (Periyar)
Thekkady is a prominent high-altitude wildlife conservation destination at an elevation of 900 metres in the Cardamom Hills of Idukki district. Positioned right along the border lines of Tamil Nadu, the region centers entirely around the core boundaries of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, a sanctuary spanning over 925 square kilometers of rugged evergreen rainforest terrain. The unique safari experience operates entirely on water, where visitors board double-decker passenger boats to track wildlife along the submerged tree trunks and marshy banks of the lake basin. The outer perimeters of the park transition smoothly into expansive organic spice farming valleys.
Thekkady (Periyar)
Periyar Lake Boat Cruise
The reserve's primary safari option, utilizing large passenger boats to track wildlife along the winding lake branches.
