A 3-day Kaziranga National Park safari in Assam (India) involving wildlife watching (rhinos, elephants, wild buffalo, a rare golden tiger, otters, reptiles), and superb birding. Golden tiger After a rewarding trip to Manas National Park , we drove nearly 8 hours to reach Kaziranga National Park. Near the park, we spotted a rhinoceros by the roadside, grazing, unaffected by the passing traffic. Despite this being my third visit, I found Kaziranga different. The park continues

A birdwatching trip in the India–Bhutan border, featuring Mandarin duck, elephants, rhinoceros, and rich grassland birdlife, especially the Bengal florican. Asian elephants Imagine standing in a forest where the wilderness stretches across two countries, yet nothing in the landscape demarcates a border. Manas National Park, in Assam, India, merges seamlessly into Bhutan’s Royal Manas National Park, together forming one of Asia’s most remarkable transboundary wilderness landsc

More than a thousand years ago, ideas, faith, and temple traditions sailed across the Bay of Bengal from southern India to Southeast Asia. Specifically, historians have written about the connections between southern India and the ancient Champa Kingdom of Vietnam. The Cham kings built temples at My Son (pronounced mee-sun ) in Vietnam to worship the god Shiva, similar to the ones in Tamil Nadu and other parts of southern India. Early Champa inscriptions were in Sanskrit, writ