Ranthambore National Park is located in Sawai Madhopur at the junction of the Aravalli and Vindhya hill range, which is the part of Rajasthan state. Because of its location, this is one of the finest places to explore wildlife and especially tiger safari. However, the park covers an area of Approximately 400 sq Km and it was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1957 and became the protection of “Project Tiger” in 1974 and it has got status of a National Park in 1981.
In addition, the National Park and Tiger Reserve was once the private game reserve for the royal family of Jaipur. It is located 155 km from Jaipur. The park is diverse topography with a mix of rolling hills and crags, meadows, lakes and rivulets. The conclusion, the park offers some of the finest opportunities for sighting the magnificent tiger, Apart from the tiger, other wildlife in the park includes sloth bear, leopard, jackal, fox, hyena, Indian wolf, sambar deer, blue bull antelope or nilgai, rhesus macaque, langur and an incredible variety of birds. The 10th century Ranthambore fort dominates the landscape of this dry-deciduous forest.