Established in 1936 as India’s first national park, Corbett is famous for its wide variety of wildlife and its beautiful location in the foothills of the Himalaya by the Ramganga River. The wildlife safaris, and the Himalayan adventure tours of Corbett offer interesting and exploratory sightseeing tours of india. With the inclusion of the Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary to the west, Corbett has grown from 520 to 1318 sq km. It may seem incongruous for a national park to be named after a famous British hunter (Jim Corbett is best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Kumaon and was greatly revered by local people for shooting tigers that had developed a liking for human flesh), but he was instrumental in setting up the reserve and eventually shot more wildlife with his camera than with his gun.

The project Tiger program was inaugurated at Corbett National Park in 1973, and there are now 23 tiger reserves across India. More commonly seen wildlife include wild elephants, langur monkeys (black face, long tail), rhesus macaques, peacocks, and several types of deer including chital (spotted deer), sambar, hog deer and barking deer. There are also mugger crocodiles, odd-looking gharials (thin-snouted, fish-eating crocodiles often spotted from High Bank), monitor lizards, wild boars and jackals. Leopards (referred to as panthers in India) are occasionally seen. Corbett is also a bird-watcher’s paradise, and since the creation of the Ramganga Reservoir on the Ramganga River, large numbers of waterfowl have been attracted here. The best time of year for sightings is from mid-December to the end of March.