RAJASTHAN'S WILDLIFE

Rajasthan's beautiful forest and valleys are as famed as its desert. The Aravalli Range divides the desert in two. To the west "Maroodesh"- the desert land, to the east "the land where the yellow aonla blooms"- green, fertile, dotted with lakes, thickly wooded, and through which the beautiful river Chambal flows. The jungles are alive with tigers, leopards, wild bears and many types of deer, as nilgai, sambhar, black-buck, cheetal, chinkara. The lakes dotted with water-birds and ducks. One of the nature's wonderlands is Keoladeo Ghana a low-lying marsh-land which each year is flooded during the monsoon and becomes a vast lake. On the water float the tops of spreading thorny babul trees. Here on these natural spring mattresses gather thousands of water-fowls for the breeding season.

After the intense heat of summer, the monsoon comes and the first rains fall, the withered desert blooms. The jungles are green, peacocks dance under every tree, the Koel calls in the mango-groves and the village well is surrounded by girls in their swinging skirts, four earthen pots balanced on their heads, singing to the passing birds to take their message of love and hope to their distant lover.

NATIONAL PARKS :

KEOLADEO GHANA NATIONAL PARK,BHARATPUR
The rich aquatic plant and animal life in the shallow, freshwater marsh of Bharatpur has been attracting resident and migratory aquatic birds in thousands since times immemorial. It has a recorded history of 100 years of duck shoots. There are 374 species belonging to 56 families, within the 29 sq km. area of the National Park.

The Siberian cranes visit no other waters in India except the marshes of Keoladeo.

It is easy accessibile from Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, both by road and rail.

RANTHAMBHOR NATIONAL PARK:

History and Natural History blend in right proportion in the Ranthambhor National Park, a famous tiger reserve under the project Tiger. Here sambar, chital chinkara, nilgai, wild boar and common langur provide a good spectrum of prey range for the resident tiger and their coperdators, leopards and jackals. Sloth-bear and hyena, also live in the 392 sq km. of unique habitat of dry deciduous forest.

The wildlife paradise is 180 km by road and 132 km by rail from Jaipur and approachable both by rail and road. It is situated 14 km from Sawai Madhopur, a railhead on Delhi-Bombay trunk route.

SARISKA TIGER RESERVE

It is the nearest tiger-land from Delhi (190 km). The landscape of Sariska is dominated by sharp cliffs of hills and narrow valleys of the Arvallis. The forest are dry deciduous. The grassy glades and woodland covers an excellent niches of the prey species, sambar, chital, nilgai, four-horned antelope, wild boar and common lanuar, tiger, common leopard and their followers jackal, hyena and jungle cat. Porcupines, purely nocturnal rodents, are conspicuous after dark. One can count 200 peafowls at Kalighati any day. The sanctuary combines relics of early and mediaeval history. The ruins of temples of Garh -Rajor of the 10th and 11th centuries are the treasures scattered in the jungle. A castle on a sharp hill top at Kankwari reminds of the slow and peace loving past of the 17th century. It also provides a top view of flying egyptian vultures and eagles.

KUMBHALGARH SANCTUARY

It is perhaps the only sanctuary where Indian wolf is breeding successfully. Kumbhalgarh, the famous historic fort of Mewar and Ranakpur, the Jain temple's breath-taking carvings are other places of intrest in the sanctuary, about 20 km from Udaipur.

OTHER SANCTUARIES TO VISIT:

DESSERT NATIONAL PARK
TAL CHHAPAR SANCTUARY
JAI SAMAND SANCTUARY
MT. ABU SANCTUARY
SITAMATA SANCTUARY
NATIONAL GAVIAL SANCTUARY

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