Best and Affordable Tour Package for Gir National Park Gir National Park, popularly known as Sasan Gir, is a Gujarati wildlife refuge. It is essentially a forest with a total size of 545 square miles, of which 100 square miles is designated as a national park and the remaining 445 square miles is designated as a wildlife sanctuary. The Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forest ecosystem includes this wildlife sanctuary. During the nineteenth century, Indian kings used to invite British colonists on hunting excursions for Asiatic lions. As a result, barely a dozen Asiatic lions remained in the Gir forest, one of the Nawab of Junagarh's special hunting territories. At the moment, Gir forest is the only place in the world where Asiatic lions may be found. It is critical to emphasize that lions are protected here in order to save the supported species from extinction.