Hog Deer at Kaziranga National Park

Kaziranga National Park, straddling the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River in Assam, offers a mosaic of tall elephant grass meadows, swampy lagoons and dense tropical forest well suited to the secretive Hog Deer. This UNESCO World Heritage Site provides the kind of dense cover these low-slung deer favour, rewarding patient photographers who scan the meadow edges for a glimpse of one slipping through the grass. Travelling with our Wildlife of Kaziranga National Park holiday in March gives you the chance to work this terrain properly, timing your visit to the park's most accessible season. Bring a lens with reach, as the tall grasses mean sightings can be brief and partially obscured.