Visit Rajasthan and The North
The Little Rann of Kutch is a featureless expanse of flat land - the sea bed, mostly a saline wilderness dotted with islands known as beyts where coarse grasses, acacia and scrub spring up in the monsoon.
Under threat from salt extraction works, a Wild Ass Sanctuary was created here in the in 1973 to protect the world's last home of the Asiatic wild ass. Chestnut coloured and with a dark strip down their backs, lone stallions and small groups of mares can often be seen in the early morning or late afternoons.