(Last Updated on : 18/10/2010) The western India has got many
national parks with in its territories. Amongst them Sanjay
Gandhi national Park deserves special mentioning. The Sanjay
Gandhi National Park is a green oasis surrounded by wide-ranging
artificial landscapes. It takes hardly ten minutes to run away
from the maze of inhabited Mumbai into this perfect wilderness,
The Sanjay Gandhi national Park is juxtaposed between the
fringes of the western and the eastern region. Thus this park
draws close to what is considered to be the outer spur of the
Western Ghats. Elevation lays out from near sea level at Bassein
Creek, where the Ulhas River extends to connect the sea, to
nearly 500 m. Most of the park lies south of the creek. The
Sanjay Gandhi national Park has ideal topographical deviation.
There are two extensive reservoirs of Tulsi and Vihar and traces
of marshes, scrubs, and also a mangrove creek that make the
Sanjay Gandhi National Park, quite enriched. It will not be an
exaggeration of the fact that t