Namdapha Wildlife Sanctuary

Sharing borders with Myanmar, Namdapha is home to one of the most unusual and most significant wildlife sanctuaries in India. Its vast bio-diversity supports a fabulous range of endangered flora and fauna and avian life. Its altitudinal variation is truly unique, ranging as it does from the sea level of the valley floors, to snow-covered peaks at heights of 4500 m. The climate here ranges from tropical to the extreme cold all year round, in its higher reaches.

This unique sanctuary is the natural habitat of all four great cats. Namdapha is the only natural habitat where you will find present the tiger, the leopard, the clouded leopard and the snow leopard. It is also home to the endangered takin, hoolock gibbon, red panda and capped langur.

The sanctuary has 150 species of trees and has a fabulous wealth of medicinal and ornamental plant life. Much of its immeasurable botanical bounty has not even been surveyed because of its inaccessibility. Amongst its immense range of avian denizens is the great Indian Hornbill, the state bird of Arunachal.

Namdapha is accessible from Dibrugarh via its entry point Miao, 112 km away.

Best time to explore is in winter.

You can stay at picturesque Deban Ghar Bungalow overlooking Noa Dihing River.

Tourist Attractions

Journey to Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh

Getting There

By Air: The nearest point of entry via air is the airport at Dibrugarh, Assam.

By Rail: The rail station is situated at Tinsukia in Assam.

By Road: From Tinusukia or Dibugarh, the journey to Miao, headquarters of the National Park and the Tiger Reserve, has to be done by road, over a distance of 150-km. Then, a forest road stretching over around 28-km gives access to the protected area up to a place called Deban, which has a lovely forest rest house and some other accommodation for the field staff. Beyond this area there is no road as such and all movement inside the reserve has to be on foot through dense forest and steep hill ranges with streams and rivers flowing in between. Miao can be reached by Jeep/Gypsy from Margherita (Assam) and Pasighat.