Kirthar National Park is the habitat of rare species that include the Sind Ibex, Chin Kara, Gazelles, Leopards, Wildsheep, and other animals. The best season to visit is from October to February. However, it is the greenest in August during the monsoons. Five furnished rest houses with cooking facilities and running water are situated on the edge of a wide valley in the center of the park at Karchat. They are bookable through the Sind Wildlife Management Board, which also hires out tents to those who wish to camp. Some food is available if ordered well in advance, but it is better to take your own food, drink and bedding.
The rolling valleys and rugged lines of the Kirthar hills
form a natural haven for urial sheep, ibex and chinkara gazelle. Jungle
cats, desert cats and even the occasional leopard or desert wolf also prowl
the park, but you would be extremely lucky to see them. Pangolin (scaly
anteaters), porcupines and monitor lizards are in vast numbers.
Other attractions in the park are the 18th century Chaukundi style tombs at Taung and pre-historic archaeological remains at Koh Tarash. The enormous Rani Kot Fort is also within the park, two hours by jeep from Karchat. Rani Kot is about four hours from Karachi via the Super and the Indus Highways.
Wildlife:
Mammals in the park include Asiatic leopard, Stripped Hyena,
Desert Wolf, Indian Fox, Sind Wild Goat (Ibex), Urial (Gad), Honey Badger,
Indian Pangolin, Caracal, Jungle cat, Jackal, Chinkara Gazelle, Black Buck
(Reintroduced), Hedgehog, Porcupine, Mongoose, Cairo Spiny mouse and the
Rock Mouse. Birds may include; Lammegier vulture (Winter Migrant), Bonnelli's
eagle, Griffon vulture, Egyptian vulture, Close-Barred sandgrouse, Houbara
bustard, Grey partridge, See partridge, Stone Curlew, Finche larks, Hoopoe,
shrikes and Wheatears.
Reptiles found in the park are The Rock python, Sind cobra, Russell's viper, Sawscaled viper, Sind krait, Royal rat snake, Tortoises, Monitor lizard, Sind Crocodile (possibly extinct) and different species of lizard and chameleon. The Kirthar Park is undoubtedly, amongst the best maintained recreation parks of Pakistan.