Indroda Nature park is situated in the famous indroda village in sector number 9 in Gandhinagar – Gujarat.
Indroda Nature Park is best place to visit for kids near Ahmadabad and also known as the famous dinosaur fossil park. This park is a part of sarita udyan. We can find animals like deer, hare, porcupine, wild boar and many kinds of animals and reptiles hear in this park.
For the tourist it is a place of attraction because of these animals and reptiles. Many tourists visit this place indroda nature park during the whole year. Indroda Nature Park is really a very famous place for the deer park and dinosaur park. Jurasik park of india is the second name of this dinosaur park.
It is the world’s second largest hatchery place for disanaur’s eggs. The different and typical kinds of dinosaur models are kept here for the tourist to see. The models are of titanosaurus, stegosaurus, and many other species.
This park was founded by the geological survey of india. It is known by the G.S.I. Now a days it is managed and governed by the Gujarat ecological education and research foundation (GEER).
Indroda Nature Park is spread overend area of about 400 hectares in Gandhinagar. The park is divided into two parts. This parks is situated on the banks of the river “Sabarmati”.
The western Part is known as indroda nature park while the eastern part of the river sabarmati is known as the wilderness park. The indroda nature park is open for the public from tuesday to sunday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.
There is also a zoo at indroda nature park. There we can see the animals like leopard, spotted deer, sambar, blue bull, blackbuck, chinkara, jackale, four-horned antelope, crocodile, porcupine and 180 types of birds.
There are 42 species of birds in this aviary. The park has about 65 types of birds which build their nests in the wilderness of the part. There is one section for the snakes too. It is called the snake kpark. There are number of venomous and non-venomous snakes here.
The skeleton of the sea mammals are also found here. There are two skeletons of the blue whales. One of the two is the dolphin while the other one is dugong.
The detail interpretation as been given for the visitors’ knowledge. The fossils of a large number of the see animals have also been displayed here in this park for the visitors to see.
The botanical garden in indroda nature park
The botanical garden at indroda nature park has an arboretum with 300 tree species from different agro-climatic zones. There is a green house with a number of plants. They are kept under the controlled humid conditions.
There is a cactil house which has two hundred species of cactil and medicinal plant garden. There are two hundred species of cactil and medicinal plants in this garden. Moreover there are 250 medicinal plants species.
Yet the botanical garden is under development in future the herb shrub and climber are to be collected and planted. All these plants will be grown in the extended part of the botanical garden.
Lastly casting a glance at the indroda nature park, it would be worthy that it is a good place for the visitor and the nature lover that variety of species of the birds and animals are kept here in this park.
How to get there
By road: Gujarat has one of the better developed road networks in India. Ahmedabad is well connected with all major cities and towns by road. Prominent bus stops are located at Gitamandir near Kalupur Railway Station and Paldi. Regular bus services are available by Gujarat state transport buses and private operators to all the major destinations of the state.
By rail: The main railway station is located in Kalupur area. This station falls under the prominent national railway circuit and is connected to all major cities of India. If you are on the western side of the Sabarmati river, then you can go to the Gandhigram station near Ashram road to buy your railway tickets easily.
By air: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel airport at Ahmedabad is an international airport with direct flights to usa, uk singapore, dubai and other international hubs. Numerous domestic flights are also operational from here.
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