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Tiger Country
A tiger basks in a sunbeam in Kanha. No more than 6,000 remain in the wild.
 
TRAVELER Magazine Tiger Country
It seeems right out of Kipling. In two preeminent national parks—Royal Chitwan, in Nepal, and Kanha, in India—visitors ride elephants to view wildlife.

The star attraction is the biggest, most powerful cat on earth: the tiger. Once common, the Bengal tiger and the wilderness community that sustained it—axis deer, wild pigs, giant wild oxen—have now been reduced to scattered refuges. Royal Chitwan Park, below the Himalayan foothills, and Kanha, a few hundred miles south, are two of the best refuges, preserving forest and meadows critical to the survival of the tiger.

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