The two activities will be allowed only outside the core area of the forest
GUWAHATI: Next time you visit the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, you will have the the option of a boat ride, or simply riding a bicycle into the wild. However, there is a catch: the two activities will be allowed outside the core area of the forest.
“These will give two additional tourism-related opportunities to the visitors. visitors generally take the jeep or elephant safari, which is conducted on the designated tourist circuit only. But the boat safari is a unique experience as one will get to venture deep into the forest, especially the river bank, which is a perfect spot to sight animals who regularly come there to drink water,” Kaziranga field director P Sivakumar said.
Kaziranga to start boats & bicycle services beyond the core area
Visitors to the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve can now explore the natural habitat by boats while bicycle tracks are being finalised. One can go trekking too.
But the new activities are beyond the 1,302-sq. km Kazirangaâs core area of 482 sq. km.
âOur priority is conservation with some amount of commercialisation. At the same time, we want domination of the areas added to the tiger serve and better monitoring by way of utilising the fringe areas for tourists,â P. Sivakumar, Field Director, Kaziranga said.
In November, the park authorities launched a boat safari at Bhomoraguri after the addition of 3,053 hectares to the park. The opening of the Bhomoraguri wildlife beat office under the Nagaon Wildlife Division of Kaziranga made this possible.
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