Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary

Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary

Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary (IGNP), Wildlife Sanctuary is very well known as an Anamalai Wildlife Sanctuary. Here, Anai means the Elephant and Malai means the mountain, obviously one can find plenty of elephants in an area. Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary is located in Coimbatore of Tamil Nadu state. Moreover, Indira Gandhi National Park is named after the Late Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi. This wild life sanctuary is spread over an area of near about 108 sq. km. This National Wild life sanctuary is the part of the Nilgiri Biosphere reserve.

Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary is easily accessible, since it is one of the major destinations for tourists coming down for a South India tour. The nearest airport to Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary is Coimbatore, which is situated at a distance of near about 75 kms. The nearest Railway station to Indira Gandhi Sanctuary is Pollachi, which is situated at a distance of near about 35 kms. However, roadways very well connect National sanctuary. Well, Pollachi is quite a large town, which is very well connected to all the major cities of Tamil Nadu state via buses.

One of the most important tourist zones in the Indira Gandhi National Park is the Top Slip. Top Slip is located at an altitude of 350 meters to 2400 meters above means sea level. This zone in the wildlife sanctuary is rich in flora and fauna. The hills are covered with dense forest, grasslands, plateaus, and valleys. This wildlife sanctuary receives an annual rainfall of near about 500 m to 5000 mm.

The vegetation of the Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary includes the mixed deciduous variety with the abundant of evergreen as well as semi evergreen forests. Some parts of the wildlife sanctuary have semi evergreen and wet temperature vegetation.

Indira Gandhi national Sanctuary is also very rich in variety of fauna. Here, one can find animals such as Civet Cat, Elephants, Nilgiris Tahr, Sambar, Pangolin, Barking Deer, Mouse, Spotted Deer, Tigers, Panthers, Sloth Boar and Wild Boar. In addition, wildlife sanctuary also offers the splendid sight of rare wildlife animals such as Bonnet macaque, Lion Tailed Macaque, Niligiris Langur, Grizzled Giant squirrel, Malabar Giant Squirrel, common Langur and many more. Reptile found in the Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary includes toads, Leaping frogs, torrent frogs, tree frogs, pythons, cobras, kraits, vipers, grass snakes, forest cane turtles, travancore tortoises, flapshells, star tortoises, chameleons, flying lizards, forest calotes and many more.

Moreover, Indira Gandhi national Sanctuary also is a habitat for five hundred species of birds which includes migratory as well as resident birds. Some of the species of birds found in the Indira Gandhi National Park includes Rose Ringed Parakeet, Rufus Wood Pecker, Black Eagle, Great Indian Malabar pied horn bill, Fairy Blue Bird, Green Malkhoha, Black headed Oriole, Paradise Flycatcher, Whistling Thrust, Emerald Dove, Green Pigeon, Tickell's Flower Pecker, Cormorants, Quails, Hornbills, Orioles, storks, eagles, owls, wynad laughing thrush, racket tailed drongo and many more.

One must visit Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary. It is one of the largest national sanctuaries of India. It is sure that you will have blast while on your trip to Indira Gandhi National Sanctuary!