Photo Blog: Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai
25 photos that depict the understated beauty of the urban wildlife sanctuary. The Sanjay Gandhi National Park - also called as Borivali National Park - is to us city-dwellers the calm in the midst of chaos. Popularly termed as the 'green lungs of Mumbai', this wildlife sanctuary is the second largest forest reserve in the world to exist within the boundaries of a city, the first being Central Park in NYC, USA. This forest area of SGNP is so vast that it stretches all the way from Borivali in suburban Mumbai right upto Thane district (a neighbouring city.) The national park also houses the exquisite Kanheri caves on its premises. These caves were a Buddhist learning centre and pilgrimage site built by Buddhist monks between the 9th and 1st centuries BCE. What I have come to realise is that while most of the times we crave a holiday break in far-off places, we often end up overlooking gorgeous spots that are right there in our very own hometown at an easily accessible d...