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Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 October 2014

Sundarban: A great place to visit-1

Royal Bengal Tiger-Sundarban


Sundarban means the Beautiful Forest.


Sundarban is a great attraction place of West Bengal which is one of the provinces of India. This is very adventurous place in India. This is the place of the great Royal Bengal Tiger. Sundarban is famous for three things; one is Mangrove Trees, second is Sundari Trees and third is Royal Bengal Tiger.

Sundarban is an inland on Bay of Bengal which is distributed in two parts, the major part of this forest is under the Indian Territory and remaining part is in adjacent country Bangladesh. From this point of view, Royal Bengal Tigers have common corridor for two countries. They don’t need passport to move within these two countries. I am joking. Sundarban is covered by canals and these canals are connected with the estuary of Bay of Bengal that is very nearby of this forest.
Other than Royal Bengal Tiger, there is very dangerous type of crocodiles. These two types of animals are very clever in nature and both of them are man eater. Some time, tigers are use to across the canals and reach to the nearest villages for their food. Generally tigers reach at the villages with the target of domestic animals of the villagers and they do it very cleverly; but when villagers try to protect their domestic animals, then tigers attack the villagers. Crocodiles are mostly eat fishes of the canals and dead animals which thrown to the canals by the villagers. Some time, they also eat those villagers who get into the water of canals for fishing.

There are different types of dangerous animals also exist in Sundarban area. Though they are generally eat withered flash which was left by the tigers. But they are very harmful for human, as they get chance they can attack people also.

Various types of birds also exist in Sundarban. This is also another attraction of Sundarban. Apart from that, in winter season, various types of guest birds use to come here from various part of the world. They generally stay at Sundarban for two-three months and during this time they hatch and take birth of new kids of them.

The natural beauty of Sundarban is very unique especially canals part. There is a common water transport called ‘Vutvuti’. Such name comes due to the sound of such vessel and this sound comes from the engine of the vessel. It has different size, small, medium, big and the fare of this boat is also different according to the size. If anyone wants to enjoy the beauty of the both side of the inlets properly, he has to book one separate vutvuti and pass through the inlets of Sundarban. The beauties of inlets are increased to a maximum number in full moon day. We are lucky that we had got chance to visit Sundarban in a full moon day. Throughout the night we stayed in such medium vutvuti and floated in most of the inlets of canals and watched the soundless atmosphere of both sides of the Sundarban. Our experience was very amazing.

In next blog I will try to write our tour plan and other information who to conduct an adventurous tour to Sundarban. 

Friday, 7 March 2014

Nearby Places of Kolkata-I


Sundari Trees
Royal Bengal Tiger
Sundarban: The Sundarban is the largest mangrove forest in the world. This forest is world heritage forest declared by the UNESCO and most of which portion is under the jurisdiction of the Bangladesh country and less part is in India. The Sundarban National Park is mainly Royal Bengal Tiger reserve Park. The entire forest is covered with dense mangrove trees.The name Sundarban is Bengali name and its English translation is beautiful forest. Sundar=beautiful and ban=forest.This sundar (beautiful) has come from the name of Sundari trees. This kind of trees is huge in numbers.

According to history, this area was traced to 200 and 300 AD. In earlier place was under control of pirates of different places. In 1860's, this forest was again tracked down the East India Company and in 1875 the large portion of mangrove forest declared reserve forest as per the Forest preservation Act 1865. In the year 1911, It was come to the notice that this forest has not been neither had been tracked nor had been census. The area liked 165 miles or 266 Km added with this forest as it was raised from water.

Sundarban is a water-logged jungle. Here other than Bengal Tiger, lots of wild beasts are flourished. This forest is lies in the channel of Bay of Bengal and confluence of three rivers like Padma , Brahmaputra and Meghna across of southern Bangladesh. This mangrove trees are the main protector of this forest. This forest is covered ten thousand square kilometers, out of which six thousand square kilometer is in Bangladesh. This salt-tolerant mangrove forest is connected to waterways of every corner and boat is only the vehicle.

Other than Royal Bengal Tiger, there are also various types of birds, spotted deer, crocodiles and also various types of snake. Mangroves of Sundarban are not only protecting the forest area, but also protecting the nearest villages from cyclones.

There are many ways to reach to Sundarbans . From Diamondharbour to Kakdwip and Namkhana . Boats are available from Gangadharpur . Sonakhali Tourist Lodge is best places to stay. For more detail, www.helptourism.com; recently, permit is required for foreign nationals.

Only for enjoying the beauty of Sundarban without adventure, then West Bengal Government package tour of two-three nights. For enjoying adventure, then local bhutbhuti (Motorboat) can be hired and stay whole night in the canals of dense forest. This is only to watch Royal Bengal Tigers that came to the river banks to drink water. From Calcutta, Motor-Lunch can be taken from Calcutta directly and strait to Sundanban. Best time to visit Sundarban is November - March of every year.
Kingfisher Bird
Largetooth Swafish