Sariska Tiger Reserve
Another interesting feature in Sariska is Pandupol, a natural arch carved in limestone by the action of water, several hundred feet above the ground. An exquisite waterfall forms here during monsoon. There is a legend that the Pandavas spent a portion of the period of their exile here.
A dramatic change takes place in the complexion of the forest from lush green in the monsoons to a coppery color in the winter and finally to ash gray in the summer. During March/April, fiery orange blooms of leafless pallas and the ash grey of dhok give the jungle a mosaic like quality.
Here too, the tiger is at the top of the food-chain pyramid, but sightings of this magnificent beast are not so common. Among the herbivores Sariska is home to the chowsingha, a unique, exclusively Indian species and the world's only creature where the buck has two pairs of horns. There are hordes and hordes
