Nestled high in West Himalaya, India’s Valley of Flowers National Park is renowned for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and outstanding natural beauty. This richly diverse area is also home to rare and endangered animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow leopard, brown bear and blue sheep. The gentle landscape of the Valley of Flowers National Park complements the rugged mountain wilderness of Nanda Devi National Park. Together they encompass a unique transition zone between the mountain ranges of the Zanskar and Great Himalaya, praised by mountaineers and botanists for over a century and in Hindu mythology for much longer.
State of Uttaranchal
N30 43 0.012 E79 40 0.012
Date of Inscription: 1988
Extension: 2005
Criteria: (vii)(x)
Property : 71,783 ha
Buffer zone: 514,286 ha
Ref: 335bis
Source: http://whc.unesco.org
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