NAMDHAPA NATIONAL PARK
NAMDHAPA NATIONAL PARK Deriving its name from the meandering Nao Dihing River that flows through the Park, the unblemished virgin beauty of the Namdhapa National Park with the sound of the rapids and murmuring winds, interrupted by the gleeful hooting of the Hoolok Gibbons, is captivating. Time, in this little Shangri-La, comes to a standstill. Sandwiched between Myanmar on its eastern and southern boundaries with the Patkai Mountain Range and the eastern end of the Himalayan foothills, the Park spreads over an area of 1850sq kms of rugged terrain between an altitude bracket of 200 feet to 4500 feet and is home to an exotic variety of tropical and alpine flora and fauna. Namdhapa is a botanists’ dream. The enchanting and wild diversity of the floral species of the Park comprehensively forms a multi-storied structure. The lower reaches of the Park represents tropical wet evergreen forests, the middle tier represents mixed deciduous forests, while the upper strata...