Sundarbans 1-5 October 2014
Sundarbans is a majestic place that I feel one must visit at least once in their life time. It is very different from all the jungles I have visited till now. Two major differences were that it was not accessible by jeep but rather by boat and that the tide level mattered more than the light. The tide in a six hour period varies by almost two meters. We landed in Kolkata airport to find a queue of 50 people waiting for prepaid cabs in the airport , after a thirty minute wait we decided to try our luck outside. After three failed attempts to hail a cab we finally managed to get a cab. It took us an hour and a half to reach our hotel as we had to travel through the jam packed roads of Kolkata. On our way to the hotel we saw many different sights. 2 October 2014 A group of 14 including three guides set of from Kolkata airport in a Force Tempo traveller at 9 o'clock and in three hours we reached the Godkhali Port. There we got onto a boat and spent the entire day cruis