India's
vast geographical diversity provides huge scope for the adventure tourist
by providing a remarkable experience for all those who fancy the wild and
want to see how man and nature have flourished together. While you
rediscover yourself from the spell of age-old monasteries and temples, the
Himalayan peaks and slopes, with its dense tropical forests providing
diverse fauna and flora, and the 3000 km long coastline promises the most
exciting of sports and adventure imaginable
The sheer thrill of rafting along roaring waters of great rivers, hang
gliding over deep mountain gorges and climbing serrated glaciers or
mountain summits is to be experienced to be believed.
And, mind you, these thrills and these serenity forms just a small part of
the exhilaration and excitement for the fast growing area, which is
increasingly being recognized as adventure tourism.
India is also home to many wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, which
are the natural habitat of many animals and rare species. It has the
second largest wildlife base in the world. In India you can find tropical
wet evergreen jungles of the Ghats in the Indian Peninsula to the alpine
forests of the Himalayas. Areas like the Deccan Peninsula, the Indian
coasts, the Western Ghats, the Gangetic plain, the Northeastern Region and
the Trans Himalayan region form the main wildlife zones in India. The
climate and vegetation of these areas, range from the tropical to the
temperate, and is home to tigers, snow leopards, elephants, antelopes,
deer, bears, jackals, hyena, wild buffalo, etc.
India's exotic wildlife reserves are home to the largest number of tigers
and one-horned rhinoceros in the world, as well as the almost extinct
Asiatic Lion, and a large percentage of the total Asian elephant
population.
