Sunderbans National Park: A Wonderful Wildlife Destination

Located on the mouth of the Ganges and jutting into the parts of the neighboring country of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, the Sunderbans are a part of the world's largest delta formed by the mighty rivers -- Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna.

The national park by the same name located in the Sunderbans on the Indian side, the Sunderabans National Park, is the biggest Tiger Reserve and national park in India. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Sunderbans is a pretty vast region covering 4264 square km in India only.

The Sunderbans is also the world's biggest estuarine forest and sliced by hundreds of creeks, besides tributaries. This world-famed wildlife destination is one of the most incredible and alluring tourist places and a natural heaven of the highest order that one may come across anywhere in the world.

Besides the Royal Bengal Tigers for which the national park is much famed for, the Sunderbans is also home to Gangetic dolphin, fishing cat, little porpoise, jungle cat, Indian fox, wild pig, spotted deer, rhesus monkey, and Indian flying fox, apart from pangolin.

Sunderbans is also a bird watchers' paradise. White-bellied sea eagle, Kingfisher, egret … these are just some of the many interesting and colorful species of birds that one may come across here. Numerous rare migratory birds also visit this region in large numbers, especially during the winters.

The Sunderbans National Park is also home to several types of turtles and is much renowned for the widely publicized preservation of the Ridley Sea Turtle. A large species of reptiles are also found in the wilds of the Sunderbans.

The national park is also a haven of sorts for the biggest of the estuarine crocodiles. In fact, there's a unique hatchery and a sanctuary for these crocodiles called Bhagabatpur Crocodile Project located inside the Sunderbans.

However, the USP of the Sunderbans National Park remains the tigers. Presently, the park has nearly 400 Royal Bengal Tigers. These majestic creatures of the wild feel at home inside the Sunderabans and they have pretty well adapted themselves to the saline and aqua surroundings of the forest reserve. Much interestingly, they are rather good at swimming and could be seen swimming with ease in the waters bodies of the Sunderabna.

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