Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
 The Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is a Project Tiger Reserve and situated beautifully amid the high hills of the Bhutan Himalayas. The sanctuary is in the far eastern state of Assam and about 176km from Guwahati. Stretching its limit to as far as over 2,837 sq km, the park is a gigantic and comparatively well-preserved region of low-lying sal forests and grasslands. Kokrajhar and Barpeta districts host the core area of the sanctuary while the faraway areas go as wide as to cover the nearby forest reserve divisions of North Kamrup, Kachugaon and Haltugaon.
Declared the `World Heritage in Danger’ site in 1985, it’s the lone tiger reserve in Assam and a famous site for the rare golden langur and the red panda. The sanctuary maintains its high status and features among the best-kept national Indian parks, and hosts second-largest tiger population. Elephants, rhinos, swamp deer, gaur, golden cat, pangolin and fishing cat are few other delights at the sanctuary.
More than 450 species of birds are found here and pied hornbill and the Bengal florican easily steal the show and attract many. To see the vast verity of animals and plants, the months of October to April are ideal to be in the Manas Wildlife Sanctuary. It’s also suggested to visitors to not come to the park during the monsoons (June to September) to avoid lots of problems and flood.
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