We were a group of 8 college friends in our 70's. We took a chance to go and do a Jeep safari at kaziranga and we were lucky that even in May Jeep safari were on ,however elephant safari was was closed. It was a pleasant experience. Rough patches of roads for our age group.
excellent staff accommodation food. overnite stay is must as elephant and jeep rides are early morning. fabtastic forest officer he helps everyone. nearby local prog in evening is must watch
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Kaziranga national park is a well maintained heritage site. The journey to park was enjoyable with enough sign boards on both sides of road and speed monitors installed. Lot of focus on animals safety. We missed elephant Safari due to unavailability of elephants due to peak season. We did jeep sajari instead. This is undoubtedly the biggest , cleanest wild life park I had seen so far. There were so many water bodies for animals , lush greenery around. I could sense the comfort habitants would be in being here. A must visit !!
Set in a serene location, there are safaris at different times of the day. We chose the morning Jeep safari as the elephant safari was unavailable due to over booking. Comes close to 2.30 hours and was a great experience. Could spot quite a few animals. The hotels where you stay usually have tie ups that pick up and drop you there.
Avoid this overpriced, perversely restricted joke of a national park, especially if you are a birder.
First entry well after dawn - much reduced bird and animal activity.
Safari jeep drives are only 2 hours each (though the park is open in the morning from 7.30 to 12 noon).
Not enough time to stop and look at most mammals, let alone birds - even though there weren't many of either (mostly distant).
And little time was spent with even the closest and largest fauna. Hurried viewing with not enough time to appreciate and enjoy behaviour.
My main target was Finn's Weaver (unsurprisingly not seen) - we spent maybe 20 minutes max stopping and watching in suitable areas . Not that the non-english speaking driver made it clear whether or when or not we were actually at areas with previous sightings.
This was after leaving 80% of the birds I saw unidentified since I refrained from asking to stop for them in order to spend more time looking for the weaver.
Previous reports I had read online of doing relatively cheap safaris by sharing the cost of a jeep by joining a group were misleading or outdated.
With two other people it still cost c.$AU 50 for the 2 hour safari - and compulsory fees (entry, road, camera,etc) set a floor on the cost.
If each safari was cheap then maybe everything else could be tolerated.
I visited the central range - maybe the other ranges are better.
