Located on the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra River, Kaziranga National Park, with its swamps and tall thickets of elephant grass makes it the ideal habitat for the Indian one-horned rhinoceros. Declared a National Park in 1974, the swamplands and flood plains also harbor a wide variety of birds and reptiles. In 1999, the World Wildlife Fund-Tiger Conservation Programme (WWF-TCP) chose the Park for the millennium award for the second time in succession, for being one of the best-managed parks in the country.

At Kaziranga, you can see wild elephant herds roaming or rhinos browsing past you uncaringly. There are over 1,000 rhinos in this reserve. The wild elephant, another exotic animal of the region and often found in herds numbering over 700 and the wild buffalo are other attractions in the reserve.The mouse deer, the hog deer, barking deer, chinkara gazelle, bears, leopards, leopard cat, wild boars and the gaur are to be found here besides a variety of the monkey family.The bird life of Kazirangais typical of the north-eastern foothill of India - the highlight are Pelicans, which breed here. Other birds commonly found include the crested serpent eagle, pallas fishing eagle, grey-headed fishing eagle, swamp partridges, red jungle fowl, Bengal florican, bar headed goose, whistling teal, egrets, herons, black - necked stork, and open billed stork.