page_title: Tourism in Kaziranga National Park
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Tourism in Kaziranga National Park / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: Welcome notice to all visitors through Kaziranga. These two Xorais adorn the bridge near Kohora range on the approach Kaziranga National Park from the west to the east along the national highway from en:Koliabor to en:Jorhat. Photo taken using a Canon Powershot A 520
context_page_description: Kaziranga National Park is an Indian national park and an UNESCO World Heritage Site situated in the Golaghat and Nagaon district of Assam, India. It is a tourist destination and conservation area particularly notable as a refuge for the endangered Indian one-horned rhinoceros, hosting the largest population of wild Indian one-horned Rhinoceros in the world. The park contains significant stock of three other large herbivores — the Asian Elephant, the Asiatic Water Buffalo and the eastern subspecies of the Swamp Deer. Kaziranga also has the highest density of tiger in the world and is declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006. Kaziranga is recognized as an Important Bird Area by Birdlife International for conservation of avifaunal species.
context_section_description: The main gate for Kaziranga, at Kohora is on the National Highway 37 (NH 37). Assam State Transport Corporation and private buses stop here on their way to and from Guwahati, Tezpur and Upper Assam. Taxi Services also available from Guwahati to Kaziranga National Park and other places in Assam. The park is a 4-hour drive from Guwahati (217 kilometres (135 mi)) on the NH-37 and 1.5 hrs from Nagaon (97 kilometres (60 mi)). Both these cities are well connected to the park by buses and taxies. Furkating (75 kilometres (47 mi) away) is the nearest railway station, other important stations are Nagaon, Jorhat and Guwahati (GHY) stations. The nearest airports are Jorhat Airport  (97 kilometres (60 mi) away),  Tezpur Airport at Salonibari (approx 100 kilometres (62 mi) away) and Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati (approx. 217 kilometres (135 mi) away). The nearest town from the park is Bokakhat (23 kilometres (14 mi) away) and the nearest cities are Nagaon, Tezpur and Guwahati.
caption: "Xorai" welcome to Kaziranga
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