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| Photo: Alison Bowen, England |
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We offer personalised tours to the Sunderbans and local villages. With us you can go when you want and need not have to follow the dictates of a large organised tour. We stay in a local hotel, book launches for the times you want and spend time travelling and walking through local villages.
You stay in the comfort of your own room, on land and are not trapped in a compound but are free to wander the local area, exploring as you wish.
You can choose to travel by hire car or local buses and negotiate the length of the tour with us. With us it is a bit of an adventure as part of each journey is on public transport, namely public launch and cycle van.
It is always better to go at times away from the weekends and you need a free week-day in Kolkata to arrange the permit.
Whether you want to visit the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve or just get away from the city and experience the calm and beauty of a Bengali village this is the experience for you. |
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Dear
friends,
Just returned from the Sunderbans...maybe it is easier if I just give you impressions...
Left from our hotel in Kolkata at 8.30AM to travel by hire car to a river port where the main road ends. Then a local auto rickshaw ride with glimpses into village life on the way, a local boat across a wide river and then a cycle van, slow and fascinating trip through beautiful Bengali villages at cycle pace....stayed in a local hotel opposite the Tiger Reserve, comfortable and clean by local standards ...stayed one full day and two nights...three days in all....full day occupied largely by a 4 hour launch trip into the Sunderbans with a short walk into the forest and a watchtower... longer trips are available...most time is spent sitting on the launch under the cover of a cotton cloth gazing out into the forest...we did see a few animals and birds but definitely not a tiger...after lunch we had a nap and then went on a village walk for a couple of hours... really fascinating ..I found this just as interesting as the Sunderbans boat ride....both nights were spent mainly in the hotel reading and talking but the local village bazaar has its interests and we sometimes wandered down to the market centre for a tea or local snack... |
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| Other Options |
| We can make several changes to this outline, one being a budget tour which ditches the car hire and has us travelling down by local train. Another option is aluxury tour which involves booking a boat from the point where the hire car leaves us all the way to the hotel on the island we stay on. This is subject to availability so needs to be booked well ahead. |
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| Sunderbans Impressions |
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