Chandaka, Bolangir, Orissa India

Tours to Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary are popular with tourists who plan to visit Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa and its nearby areas. Located in the highlands of Khurdha and Cuttack and that once had covered Bhubaneswar too, the Chandaka forest was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1982 to protect its dwindling population of natural vegetation and elephants.Also known as the City Sanctuary as it traverses the periphery of Orissa's commercial city centers of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack; tours to Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary will stun you with its replenished ecosystem that includes 300 species of plants, 30 species of mammals, 27 species of reptiles and 120 species of birds and many more that are yet to discovered and classified.