Sundarbans National Park
It is a combo pack, so tourists from all over the world come here to enjoy and watch the Bengal Tiger and many more things. It is situated in Sundarbans Delta, in West Bengal.The park is made up of 54 small islands and is crisscrossed by several distributaries of the Ganges and is the largest mangrove forest in the world surrounded by the three rivers mainly: The Ganga, The Brahmaputra, and The Meghna and covers the whole Sundarbans park. These forests are also very dense and out of 50 broad categories of mangrove forest, 26 are found in Sundarbans. Sundarbans National park is also the world’s largest estuarine sanctuary.
Sundarbans National Park gives home to around 270 Royal Bengal Tigers and here one can also find deer’s, wild pigs, monkeys, herons, kingfishers and white-bellied eagles, estuarine terrapins, Olive Ridley turtles, estuarine crocodiles, Ganges dolphins, water monitors and a wide variety of birds, fish and crustaceans.
One cannot deny that the most attractive feature of the park is watching the Royal Bengal Tiger but the park is also famous for conserving the Ridley Sea Turtles and the Sajnekhali Visitors’ Centre is also one of the major tourist’s attraction as in this centre there is a shark pond, a turtle hatchery, a Mangrove Interpretation Centre, and a crocodile enclosure.
And if one wants to see the king of the jungle taking sun bathing on the bank of the river, the best time is to go in the months of December and January. The other nearby places situated at Sundarbans Park are Netidhopani, Bhagabatpur, Kanak, Holiday Island, Piyali and Kaikhali. Piyali is a famous spot for picnic and holiday destination and Netidhopani, the ruins of a 400-year-old temple tell a tale of its own adding mystery to the surroundings.
The Sundarbans National Park Indiais well connected through all means of transport. One can choose his transport medium according to his wish and budget. The foreign tourists have to take special permit from the secretary of the West Bengal Forest Department to watch the Royal Bengal Tiger and to work on different Tiger projects.
Riya Mehra has deep interest in writing informative articles on Travel and tourism India. Also given her words to a portal for Sunderbans national park where one can find info on Sunderbans tiger camp.
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