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(02-04-2017, 03:22 AM)Brehm Wrote: Nice information exchange & debate guys.
Wish you good luck and lot of fun for your upcoming journey @Pckts !
I too have plans to visit 1-2 tiger reserves in one of my next 2 vacations. My next trip to india is planned from end of april to middle of may, but its more a spontanous vacation to visit relatives originally, so i dont know if it will fit this time. My heart is burning for it though... Luckily i plan to fly next year as well^^
My stay is unfortunately in the only indian state with almost no wildlife nearby... Punjab. The closest tiger reserves would be Corbett and Rajaji. Visiting both of them (if organized in advance) shouldnt be such a big deal i guess, if time, money and motivation are in a good spot. Apart from that, i also thought about Dudhwa. My "problem" (not as harsh as it may sounds) with Corbett or lets say Ranthambore is, that those are major tourist attractions and probably over crowded. Dont get me wrong, im also nothing else than a tourist in that matter. Im just the type, who likes visiting "secret" treasures, if possible. In that case, i thought a non - mainstream park like Dudhwa could be an interesting experience.
According to this site, Dudhwa is a non commercial park with interesting offers:
Quote:Dudhwa attracts the visitors with its two core area as Dudhwa National Park and Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary which are separated by each other with an area of 15 kms agricultural land. Unlike other celebrity parks of India like Jim Corbett National Park, Kaziranga National Park, Bandhavgarh National Park etc, the uncommercialized ambience of this park makes it an ideal habitat for the wild creatures to find nature's serenity & comfortability in a more natural way.
So, my most likely journey would look like Rajaji - Corbett and probably Dudhwa. The question is, are there any reasons not to visit Dudhwa? I knew it had a bad reputation a few years ago, but whats the situation today?
I also think about including the Great himalayan national park, in that case i would skip one of the 3, otherwise it would be too costy.
If you are a fan of the Jim Corbett's novels you can combine visiting of national park itself with a visit of summer house of Jim Corbett in Naini Tall, now turned into museum and his winter home in Kaladhungi, also turned into museum. They both should be in couple of hours drive from the national park. In this case you have wildlife safari plus "pilgrimage" to the birthplace and hunting grounds of the great novelist.
Probably Corbett national park has a highest density of tigers and wildlife in all India after Kaziranga. But vegetation there is little bit too dense. National parks in Madhya Pradesh are covered with more drier forests and probably best places to observe tigers. From another hand as I know Kanha, Pench, Bandavrarh have not gigantic herbivores like wild elephants and rhinos. What kind of Indian jungle is this if it doesn't posses Hathi - the elephant? Corbett posses both tigers and wild elephants in high density. I personally think that the finest protected areas in all of Hindustan are Chitwan national park and Kaziranga national park. Only they posses all Indian Big Five - elephant, rhino, tiger, leopard and gaur (buffalo) in significant numbers even they are probably not the best place to observe tigers due to dense vegetation.
