Sundarbans National Park The Thrilling Wildlife Destination In East India

[Global Tourism India]

The most thrilling and adventurous wildlife destination in East India is Sundarbans. In the year of 1997 this Indian national park was entitled as UNESCO World Heritage Site. The name “Sundarbans” may drive for the tree “Sundari”, which is found here a lot. The marvelous granitic forest, Sundarbans park is situated in the Indian state of West Bangal. It is the largest on its own hunk of tidal halophytic mangrove forest on the earth.

Sundarbans covers the granitic land of 38,500 sq km, of which around one-third area is covered by water and marsh. Sundarban has extremely rich diversity of aquatic and terrestrial flora and fauna with a rich wildlife environment. The wildlife management authority is presently restricted fauna from poaching. It is habitat of around 500 Royal Bengal tigers as according to the survey of 2004. With the exception of the Royal Bengal Tiger; Fox, Fishing Cats, Forest Cats, Macaques, Flying Fox, Wild Boar, Pangolin, Common Grey Mongoose and Chitals are also found in large quantity in the forest. The peacock soft-shelled turtle, water monitor, yellow monitor, Indian flap-shelled turtle, Indian python and the Bengal tiger, river terrapin are some the variety of resident.

it is the truth that the most attractive feature of the park is watching the Royal Bengal Tiger but the sundarbans national park is famous for conserving the Ridley Sea and Turtles. The Sajnekhali Visitors' Centre is also one of the major tourist's attractions in Sundarbans National park as in this center there is a shark pond, a turtle hatchery, a Mangrove Interpretation Centre, and a crocodile enclosure.

There are huge number of hotels and resorts in sunderbans to full fill all the desire of travelers, as Jungle Camp in Sunderbans, Chital Tourist Lodge, Hotel Krishna Kunj, Hotel Mainak and lots more.