Sariska National park in Alwar, Rajasthan
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How to get to Sariska National park
Base is Sariska. Sariska offers accomodation outside the park in the state owned tourism comples as well as former royal hunting lodge apart from various other privately managed hotels. Sariska is connected with both Jaipur and Delhi. Best time to visit is winter though the chances of sighseeing increase in summer, the park is closed during the rains.
Sariska is a heavily forested reserve and a drive through the park shows up a large number of deer species ie the sambhar, chital, nilgai etc as well as langurs that inhabit the tree cover. Also resident of the reserve though almost as elusive as the tiger on account of the cover of vegetation are leopard, jungle cat, jackal, hyena and wild dog.
Observers often gather at hised close to water holes to view and photograph wildlife though ofcourse they cannot stay beyong evening light. When deer come to feed at these water holes, they attract the presence of leopards, tigers and wild dogs especially in summer when all other souces of water shrink and vapourise.
Like all parks there is also a variety of birdlife in Sariska that inclused the gray partridge, white breasted kingfisher, golden backed woodpecker, serpent eagle, great Indian horned owl and others.
Ancient Kankwari Fort is situated in the middle of the Reserve. Archaeological treasures, Neelkanth and Garh Rajor of 9th and 10th century are ruins of Shiva and Jain temples, contemporary of the world famous Khajuraho.
One tigress was shifted to Sariska from Ranthambhore in February 2009. Thus, the reserve has five tigers, recently, two tiger cubs with their tigress mother were spotted in the reserve bringing the total number of tigers to seven with five adults.
Sight seeing
Once the hunting reserve of the maharajas of Alwar in whose jurisdiction it fell. Sariska's forests are typical of the Aravallis with the undulating terrain of low hills, steep secarpments, wide valleys and hill plateaus. A natural habitat for the tiger it would have held a commendable population of these tigers had the forests around the park not been vandalised in the recent decades. Today the region is a major milk pocket and cattle have eroded the forestlands and pastures around the park so that the population of wildlife has shrunk to the limits of the parks alone. Human population and the presence of religious spots around and inside the park have further led to deterioration of the environment.
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