Sundarban Mini-trip

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(01-01-2018, 12:21 AM)Rishi Wrote: What especially struck me was how very quiet it was. @SuSpicious @Pckts @Apollo & whoever have been in safari at India's mainland jungles can confirm how loud it is there. You'll hear birds & monkeys on every other tree, shrieking at the top of their voice & decoding those sounds decide your sighting chances. But not here...
It almost felt like a haunted forest, shrouded in a veil of silence.

Probably this silence is deceptive. It remind me a sentence from century old E.Salgari adventure novel:
"By day, a dismal silence reigns supreme, instilling terror in even the
bravest of souls, but once darkness descends, the air fills with a frightening
cacophony of howls, roars, and hisses that make the blood run cold."
I personally have no scientific explanation about such daytime silence since there are 286 bird species in Sundarban as well as monkeys. But its described since Victorian travellers started to visit the aria. There is a legend that Sundarban was a last stronghold of the Thuggees - a religious sect of assasins, strangulating their victims also described in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Doom".

"The camps basically consists of a watch-tower and a elevated, fenced approach to it."
Why the approach is fenced?

I was on the verge of visiting Sundarbans in 1993 but unfortunately arrived in Calcutta when the monsoon rains were already started...

Happy New Year @Rishi , I guess your next trip is to Jaldapara National Park... Reply