Forests and it's People
Highlights
* Great Himalayan National Park at Tirthan Valley of Himachal Pradesh * Virgin jungles of East Himalaya – Neora Valley and Namdapha National Parks * Unique floating Islands in Kaibul Lamjao National Park * Living Roots Bridges on East Khasi Hills forests * The riparian woodlands on foothills – Dooars, Corbett and Kaziranga * The desert bush around Kutchh in Gujarat and the Thar in Rajasthan * The forests of Madhya Pradesh famous for Tigers and Leopards * The Sunderbans National Park – the largest mangrove delta in the world * Rainforests of Southern Hills – famous for sandalwoods and elephants
Trip Story
India can proudly boast of its forest treasure –possessing the most diverse forest types in the world. The visitors can see forests just after the tree-line starts on the snowy Himalayas in Kasmir or Garhwal. The greens then spread throughput the foothills of Himalayas called Terai region and get fed by numerous river streams till it traverse the thick deciduous jungles of Central India and reaches the bush-lands of Deccan Plateau. Again the rainforests of Southern India extend their arms to Nilgiris and Western– Eastern hills with a distinct characteristics of flora and fauna. And it is primarily the native communities who are on the frontline of forest conservation – the interdependence between the forest and their people can visually observed by any tourist who travel to the interior parts of Indian forests where the aggression of industrial capital is yet to arrive. The experiential tours can take you to the villages of Bishnois in Rajasthan and the Khasis of Meghalayas. Here the oral histories will tell you their age- old traditions to fight against the poachers or timber- cutters.