Wildlife Weekends in Sultanpur

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After the R-Day parade ends, you’ll have one day more before the new week. In the second part of our occasional Wildlife Weekends series, we recommend a day trip to Sultanpur National Park.

You’ll hear whirring and chirping as you take the park’s brick-paved path to the lake. There you’ll spot at least 250 kinds of birds going about their business – paddling, foraging, or just taking off across the water to alight on the other side. You can’t join them in the water: no boating, no swimming!

Take two hours to walk around the perimeter, and feast your eyes on the splendid sights – shovellers (spot them as they keep their heads in the water when they search for food), green-headed mallards, long-legged storks, big and small cormorants, herons, egrets, geese, lapwings, resident through the year.

But the real VIPs are the migratory guests from Central Europe and Asia. You see flashes of pink-and-orange as the rosy pelicans turn to face you. And if you are lucky, you will spot the gorgeous Siberian cranes, wheeling wingspan-to-wingspan, across the sky.

Sultanpur National Park, 50 kms from New Delhi, 15 kms from Gurgaon. The easiest way to get there is by road, and takes about an hour-and-a half from any central point in New Delhi.

Click here for our first Wildlife Weekend in Ranthambore.