Ranthambore National park in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan
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How to get to Ranthambore National park
Base is Sawai Madhopur. 11 Km from Sawai Madhopur town. It is a rail terminal which serves as the vital link to Ranthambore and offers accomodation for visitors. The park is closed in the peak summer and monsoon months. The best time to visit National Park Ranthambore is from February to April. The weather is pleasant during the day and the animals can be seen in the forests even in the daytime.
Sight seeing
If there is a park that can almost garuntee tiger sightings it must be the Ranthambore, its landscape dominated by the Vindhyan hill range with its steep escarpments. The ancient sedimentary limestone and sandstone rocks, perinnial lakes, and dry decidous vegetation are part of its indicative topography. Ranthambore's great fort, in the background is a royal presence but abandoned for centuries the only majesty here is the tiger's presence.
The park lies at the edge of a plateau, and is bounded to the north by the Banas River and to the south by the Chambal River. There are several lakes in the park.
There are around 35 tigers in Ranthambore and they range over the 392 sq Km of the wildlife reserve. Once a hunting preserve for the Maharajas of Jaipur and now a Project Tiger reserve the park has also shown that tigers can live and breed in close proximity to human settlements.
But the tiger isn't the only predator at Ranthambore though it may be its famous one. Leopards live in higher vegetation while the lakes are infested with marsh crocodiles on whom the tigers sometimes prey. There are also carcals, jungle cats, jackals, hyenas and sloth bears. Among forgaging animals are deers - sambhars, chital, nilgai and chinkara, wild boar, and ofcourse also species like the hare, mongoose and monitor lizard.
The birdlife is also very rich here. The landscape with its vegetation, lakes the second largest banyan tree in the country (in which langurs have made their residence) the occasional palace or building make it one of the most picturesque parks in the country.
Anantpura and Lakarda Padam Talao, Bakaula Raj Bagh Talao, Kachida Valley Raj Bagh Ruins, and the Malik Talao Ranthambore Fort are within the junge which once can tour. The Ranthambore is a majestic fort, built in 10th-century, towers over the entire park area. It stands at a height of 700 feet above the surrounding plain. Inside the fort, there are three red Karauli stone temples devoted to Ganesh, Shiva and Ramlalaji.
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