21 July 2010

Sundarbans National Park



Sundarbans just not being the National Park is a Tiger reserve, UNESCO world heritage site and a Biosphere Reserve. Sundarbans National Park is located in the Sundarbans delta in the West Bengal state in the Northern part of India. Sundarbans is known as the World’s largest Mangrove forest.

With its extremely rich diversity of aquatic and terrestrial flora and fauna Sundarbans is one of the major ecotourism attractions across India. Sundarban is a home to a large number of Royal Bengal tigers and also abounds in olive ridley turtles, Gangetic dolphins, spotted deer, wild boars, salt water crocodiles, monitor lizards, rhesus macaques, snakes and it’s also a haven for the avifauna like kingfishers, herons, woodpeckers, storks, Brahmin ducks, ibises, arghilahs, water fowl, egrets etc.

Few major attractions around Sundarbans are Sajnakhali, Bhagabatpur, Piyali. Islands such as Goasaba, Sandeshkali and Basanti form the northern boundary of the Sundarbans whereas on the south lies the Bay of Bengal, the Matla and Bidya Rivers form the eastern boundary and the to the west side of the Sunderbans National Park is the international boundary of Bangladesh. The best time to visit this place id during September to May.

The ridley sea turtles and the Royal tigers are located in Sundarbans. Call 9611196123 or request a call back.