Sajnekhali Entrance

We were required to show our passports (had to have gotten permission ahead of time) for entry. Sort of a combination zoo, refuge, entrance to the Reserve, we were able to want\der around and look at the ponds for the various animals--they were wild, we were the ones fenced in, for the most part. The monkeys wandered wherever they wanted (hold onto your hats), the deer came up from the forest, etc.

Panikhali and the Sunderbans

February 3rd 2008
Wow, this was a very long day! As one of our group commented as we ate dinner, we traveled longer today than we did to get from Dulles to London! None of it anywhere near so comfortably but much more interestingly. I almost entitled this "And VDOT thinks they have something to worry about" but didn't know how many folks would get that inference. We started off as near to 7 a.m. as we cou ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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