Guide to Rajaji National Park Tiger Safari Zones
Guide to Rajaji National Park Tiger Safari Zones If you're booking tiger safari in Rishikesh for the first time, the sheer number of choices can throw you off before you've even packed your bags. Chilla, Motichur, Ranipur, Jhilmil Jheel, Mohand, five zones, five different experiences, and almost nobody explains upfront how different they actually are. Rajaji National Park sits between the Shivalik hills and the Ganga plains, spread across nearly 820 square kilometres in the Haridwar, Dehradun, and Pauri Garhwal districts of Uttarakhand. It became a tiger reserve in 2015, and it now holds one of the largest wild elephant populations in North India. Tigers and leopards share the same forest, and more than 400 bird species have been recorded here, which keeps birders coming back year after year. What makes Rajaji genuinely interesting is the terrain shift within a single park. One zone gives you dense sal forest, another opens into riverside grassland, a third climbs into rock...