Getting There
The Kirthar National Park is situated in the Kirthar Mountains in Jamshoro District in Sindh, Pakistan. 92 km away from Karachi via Karachi – Hyderabad Motorway.
What to Expect
Kirthar is an area of outstanding beauty and cultural heritage which provides important habitat for a variety of mammals, birds and reptiles characteristic of the arid subtropics.
There are now over 5,000 wild goat, about 1,250 urials and less than 150 chinkara in the park, and the further 400 wild goat and 70 urial in the game reserve. And its comprises Persian leopards, striped hyenas, Indian wolves, ratels, urials, chinkara gazelles and rare Sind wild goats. Blacknuck antelopes are kept in enclosures for a reintroduction project at Kirthar National Park.
History
It is the first National Park from Pakistan to be included in the 1975 United Nation’s list of National Parks around the world. Approximately one third of the park lies in the north of Karachi district and two thirds in the south-west of Dadu district.
Facilities Available
There are two tourists centers in the park managed by Sindh Wildlife Management Board,namely “KHAR” and “KARCHAT”. The centres offer cottage and dormitory accommodation and guides are available. There are some 671 km of unmettaled roads within the park, most of which are negotiable only four-wheel drive vehicle.
