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Assam Wildlife Highlights

Kaziranga National Park · Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary
Duration
8 Days · 7 Nights
The route
Kaziranga National Park · Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary
Style
Rhino, gibbons & birds
Best season
Nov–Apr · dry season
The route

7 nights, 2 stops — rhino, gibbons & birds.

From Kaziranga to Hoollongapar, the route is built around Assam’s floodplains, forests and their wildlife.

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What you're tracking

What you'll see

One-horned rhino
Kaziranga's headline.
Wild buffalo
On the floodplain.
Asian elephant
In big herds.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Jorhat → Kaziranga

Into Kaziranga

First light on the water.

Drive in from Jorhat and head out on a first jeep safari in the floodplain grassland.

02Kaziranga

Rhino grassland

Quiet hours, full lists.

Jeep safaris in the Brahmaputra grassland, with one-horned rhino, wild buffalo and the chance of tiger.

03Kaziranga

Rhino grassland

The dawn chorus.

Working the grassland and beels for rhino, elephant and the great congregations of birds.

04Kaziranga

Rhino grassland

Patience and a long lens.

Jeep safaris in the Brahmaputra grassland, with one-horned rhino, wild buffalo and the chance of tiger.

05Kaziranga → Hoollongapar

On to Hoollongapar

Eyes up, ears open.

Transfer to Hoollongapar and settle in, with an afternoon outing to get your bearings.

06Hoollongapar

Gibbons at dawn

First light on the water.

Dawn walks in the forest for the hoolock gibbon — India's only ape — and a rich primate community.

07Hoollongapar

Gibbons at dawn

Quiet hours, full lists.

Listening for the gibbons' dawn duets and tracking them through the canopy, with macaques and langurs alongside.

08Hoollongapar → onward

Departure

A last morning, then the road home.

A final morning in onward — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.

When to travel

The season changes what you see.

Nov – Apr

Dry season

The floodplain is accessible and wildlife concentrated — the core months.

Nov – Feb

Cool and rich

Comfortable, with the best birding alongside the rhino.

Wildlife you may see
Rhinos

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Field notes, now and then.

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