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Where the Wild
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|April 2017
Sejal Mehta loves the wild in India. This is her pick of national parks you must visit – some of them are delightfully unusual…
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OVER the last decade, I’ve travelled extensively in India’s wild spaces, from the Himalayan National Park with its alpine vegetation in the north, to the wet rainforests of Agumbe in the south. The remarkable thing about India’s natural landscape is its diverse ecosystems, all in one place: rainforests, scrublands, river sanctuaries, islands, deserts... I’ve started to see these places not as destinations, but as homes, with their own history and stories of survival. It’s downright impossible to pick which places you should travel to. This piece, then, is just a place to begin. Start with these and go on to explore the tremendous ecosystems that this country hosts.
THE CENTRAL INDIAN TRIO IN MADHYA PRADESH
Go for: Jeep safaris, big cats, birding
This is the heart of tiger country. Madhya Pradesh hosts three of the most popular names in wildlife tourism: Pench, Kanha, Bandhavgarh, sitting side by side. They’re on this list together so you can put more than one on your itinerary. The landscape is similar across these forests. Sal and teak trees dominate the central Indian landscape and much of Kipling’s
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