Tawi Wildlife Sanctuary

Tawi Wildlife Sanctuary covers 35.75 square kilometres of hills, cliffs, open grassland, streams and natural lakes about 101 km from Aizawl, at altitudes between 400 and 1,300 metres. Its tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forests include cane, bamboo, Michelia champaca, Duabanga, Schima, Terminalia and Gmelina arborea.

Mammals recorded here include the jungle cat, serow, hoolock gibbon, rhesus macaque, tiger, leopard, sambar and barking deer, while Kalij pheasants, jungle fowl, partridges and hill mynas are among the birds. Visitors can stay at a forest inspection hut at the Hualtu Range headquarters, which has two rooms with four beds.