Sunderbans Tourism: Hotels, Reviews, Packages, Photos, Maps, Experience, Itinerary

Formed by the union of three mighty rivers 'Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna' the extensive Sundarbans delta covers an area of 38,500 sq km, with a major portion of it spreading into Bangladesh. The Indian part of the delta is home to the Sunderbans National Park, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Made up of 54 small islands, swamps and an intricate network of waterways and canals, this 2,585-sq km park is the world's largest estuarine mangrove forest. Named after the Sundari trees, once found in large quantities here, the park features an extremely diverse array of vegetation and plant life, as well as houses an astounding variety of wildlife. It is, however, primarily renowned as the home of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger more than 200 are believed to reside here today, although the numbers are uncertain as conducting a tiger census is a very tricky task. Foreign tourists require special permits for visiting Sundarbans and should get in touch with the tourism authorities in