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About Keoladeo
National Park
The Bagh is a heritage hotel set in 12 acres two hundred
year-old garden in Bharatpur Rajasthan, it is located just
four hours away from major destinations such as Delhi,
Jaipur and Gwalior. The Bagh offers visitors an
opportunity to experience quiet luxury near Keoladeo Ghana
National Park, one of the most famous bird sanctuaries in
the world.
The hotel's fourteen rooms are located in three different
residential complexes. A restaurant, banquet hall, coffee
shop, library and a gym, all situated in a verdant
orchard, allow guests to enjoy solitude and companionship
in restful indoor and outdoor spaces.
The Bagh is a heritage hotel set in 12 acres two hundred
year-old garden in Bharatpur Rajasthan, it is located just
four hours away from major destinations such as Delhi,
Jaipur and Gwalior. The Bagh offers visitors an
opportunity to experience quiet luxury near Keoladeo Ghana
National Park, one of the most famous bird sanctuaries in
the world. The hotel's fourteen rooms are located in three
different residential complexes. A restaurant, banquet
hall, coffee shop, library and a gym, all situated in a
verdant orchard, allow guests to enjoy solitude and
companionship in restful indoor and outdoor spaces.
Each of the Bagh's fourteen rooms is unique. Spacious
bathrooms, luxurious fabrics, fine furnishings and the
amenities of modern technology let the weary traveler
retreat and recoup after a day of sightseeing and bird
watching. Gulmohar, the main restaurant, specializes in
the wonderful vegetarian cuisine of the Braj region. An
ayurvedic massage or a lazy swim at the fully - equipped
gym can further soothe and exhilarate the body and the
mind.
About Keoladeo
National Park
Just 176 km. from Delhi is a very special wilderness - the
Keoladeo Ghana National Park, one of the finest water-bird
sanctuaries in the world. The 28.73 sq. km. lake and
wetland was artificially created by the Maharaja of
Bharatpur in the 19th century. By building small dykes and
dams and diverting water from an irrigation canal, he
converted this low lying area into a fine wild fowl
shooting preserve.
In a few years, the new wetland surrounded by marginal
forests was able to support thousands of water birds.
Commonly referred to as Bharatpur, the Park is a delight
for bird watchers. Over 300 species of birds are found
here and raised paths, camouflaged by babul trees and
undergrowth make viewing easy. A quiet ride by boat in the
early hours of the morning is also an unforgettable
experience.
There are mixed heronries on the half submerged babul
trees and the cacophony is unbelievable as painted storks,
open bills, spoon bills, egrets, cormorants, white ibis
and multitudes of others, tend their young. Jacanas with
their iridescent colors and elegant tail feathers and
purple moorhen can be seen delicately treading over the
floating vegetation. While harriers and fishing eagles
circle overhead in search of prey, the pied kingfisher
hovers dramatically over the water in a flurry of wings.
There are varieties of storks and cranes and the local
sarus crane is elegant in a livery of grey and red. Every
year Bharatpur waits with coated breath for the arrival of
the Siberian cranes.
There are only two wintering places for this rare species
-one in Iran and the other Bharatpur and these beautiful
birds with their distinctive red beaks and facial patches,
fly over 6400 km from their summer retreats in Siberia, to
get to them. In 1996, there was great jubilation as a
couple of Siberian cranes with a young one made an
appearance in Bharatpur after a lapse of three years.
The forests around the lake at Bharatpur harbor the
sambar, chital, nilgai, jackal, hyena, fox, mongoose and
porcupine. Occasionally, a fishing cat can be seen
scooping its prey also commonly seen sunning themselves
along edge of the paths or at Python Point.
General Information:
Best Time to Visit: Throughout the Year.
Nearest Town: Bharatpur (2 km)
How to Get Here:
Air : Agra (50 km)
Rail : Bharatpur (2 km) .
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