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Wednesday 30 January 2013

Visit one of the most heritage touriest spot



Sundarban look like a balanced forest when it gets partially submerged by highly saline water during the high tide. Within a few hours, the low tide makes the water to recede back to the Bay of Bengal exposing the clay beds of mudflat to the air. Tidal amplitude and fluctuations of Sundarbans is around 7 meter.


The Sundarban is the true wonder of nature and largest continuous block of Mangrove Forest in the World. Sundarban is the home of some endangered species like Royal Bengal Tiger, Estuarine Crocodile, Spotted Dear, Wild Boar, Olive Ridley Turtle, and Gangetic Dolphin etc. Indian Sundarban consists of 102 deltaic islands which is a part Gangetic Delta, the world's largest delta. Sundarban is spread over 9630 sq KM. in southern part of West Bengal and hosts extremely rich diversity of aquatic and terrestrial flora and fauna. It is also thought that it could have been derived from Sundari, a tree that is abundant in the forest. The official name of this amazing forest is Sunderban National Park. Sundarban is located around 85 KM away from Kolkata.

Sundarban National Park is coming up to be one of the most popular tourist destinations in India for last few years.Tourism infrastructures have been developed enough. Forest department has made some arrangements to expose its majestic beauty to the tourists. The department has made some Watch Towers, a several feet high and around 500 meter long platform in dense forest from where tourists would get a spectacular view of Sundarban with its wild lives.The Most exciting part of Sundarban tour is Sundarban Safari- A jeep or an elephant back cannot be opted rather you will have a country motor boat or launch for jungle safari here in sundarban. It is very thrilling to sail through narrow creeks and canals of sundarban. You might have some wonderful images in your camera like Tiger swimming, Crocodiles lying on mudflat along with Sundarban's scenic beauty and great diversity of its flora and fauna. Views from watch towers in sundarban are really amazing.

1. Sunderban National Park, declared by GOI in the year 1984
2. Natural World Heritage Site, recognized by UNESCO in the year 1987
3. Biosphere Reserve, declared by GOI 1989. In 2001 Sundarban got included in global network of biosphere reserves.

Little Important Information which mentioned below:
1. Sundarban is a collection of tiny islands. Some are covered with mangroves and some for human habitation.
2. There is no electricity supply from mainland of west Bengal where hotels and resorts are located. Generators and solar system are used for power supply.
Climate of sundarban from October to March are best for Sundarban Tour. Monsoons are also spectacular in sundarban.

Monday 21 January 2013

One day journey of Sundarban Travel



The name Sundarban is very popular among the people of West Bengal and not only that the place is itself popular among the other forests of this universe.  Sundarban is being interpreted in Bengali, it means beautiful jungle. We have come to know from the books of geography that due to the existence of numerous sundori trees the forest is named as Sundarban. Sundarban Tour and travel will help in every possible to excavate the land in a perfect way so that you can quench your thirst to harness the beauty of the entire place.

To know it more closely it can be said that it is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove. It belongs to a widespread area, approximately 10,000sq.km.But most of the parts are included in Bangladesh. Sundarban is popularly known places among West Bengal tourism. Every year, in fact every month lots of tourists visit Sundarban to satisfy their urge to see the Royal Bengal tigers, various species of faunas like various birds, snakes, sharks, crocodiles etc. There are various species in here which are rare like Mudskipper, Bully Fish Owl, Masked Finfoot, Ruddy Kingfisher etc. It will make us proud to know that Sundarban is also enlisted by the finalists in the New Seven Wonders of Nature. Sundarban Tour and travel all you can get here is the idea to rule in a prime factor which will give you biggest doubt in the whole scene.

Sundarban mangrove is the only largest home of the Royal Bengal tigers. According to the 2004 census, in Sundarban there are 58 species of mammals, 55 species of reptiles and 248 birds species. It has also been inscribed as a UNESCO world heritage in 1997. And from the other geographical sources it has been known that Sundarban is the part of the largest delta formed by the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna. But it should be mentioned that Sundarban has played a great role as a protective barrier in and around Khulna and Mongla. Places which are mentionable in Sundarban are Piyali, it is the gateway of Sundarban and it is being developed as tourist complex. The other places are Sajnekhali where the bird sanctuary is situated and Bhagbatpur where the crocodile project lies. It is the breeding farm of the crocodiles. Sundarban Tour and travel will allow you to make sure that you are gaining the best in it.

Though lots of tourists visit Sundarban but they are kept in a boundary of protection as Sundarban is beautiful on one hand but dangerous and wild on the other hand. There are man-eater tigers, harmful snakes, lifetaker sharks and pirates as well. Animals and humans are daily struggling for their lives. So the security belt for the visitors is also very tightly scheduled there. You will get to understand the entire required analyst which will help you to gain confidence in every possible factor. Sundarban Tour and travel will help you to get these things in your mind to personify the perfection in every way.

A Story of a wildlife Centuary



The Sundarbans National Park is the biggest on its own hunk of tidal halophytic mangrove forest on the earth. The "Sundarban" can be exactly translated as "gorgeous jungle" or "gorgeous forest"; in the Bengali "Sundar" means beautiful and "ban" means forest or one can say "jungle"also. The name sunderban may have been taken from the tree Sundari which are found here a lot. On the other hand, it has been proposed that the name "Samudraban" is a corruption   or Chandra-bandhe (name of a primitive tribe). But the normally expected vision is the one connected with trees "Sundari".

With the exception of the Royal Bengal Tiger; Wild Boar, Fox, Forest Cats, Fishing Cats, Macaques, Flying Fox, Pangolin, Common Grey Mongoose and Chitals are also found in large quantity in the forest. The peacock soft-shelled turtle, water monitor, yellow monitor, Indian flap-shelled turtle, Indian python and the Bengal tiger, river terrapin are some the variety of resident

The forest gives a unique flora and fauna with a rich wildlife environment. It was habitat of about 500 Bengal tigers in the year 2004, one of the leading on its own tiger's population. About 100 - 250 people are killed every year in tiger attacks here. Nevertheless, , there has been no any serious report of tiger attacks since 2004,due to various measures taken for safety.

The wildlife management authority is presently restrictedfauna from poaching and designation of some areas as wildlife sanctuaries where taking out of forest produce is not allowed and the wildlife face few disturbances. Of these the tiger and dolphin are targeted group for planning wildlife for tourism enlargement.

It is found at the feet of the holy river "Ganga" and is spread across areas West Bengal in India and Bangaladesh, India, forming the towards the border of the delta. The seasonal flood of Sundarbans quagmire forests from the mangrove forests. The forest spread 10,000 km2 in which near about 6,000km are in Bangladesh. UNESCO announced it as a world heritage site in 1997; these are singly listed as the Sundarbans and Sundarbans National Park, respectively in the UNESCO world heritage list. It is vast network of tidal waterways, small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests. The area is also known for the Royal Bengal Tiger, as well as snakes, , crocodiles spotted deer and numerous fauna with variety of birds. It is projected that there are 500Bengal tigers and approximately 30,000 spotted deer in the area now a day. It was selected a Ramsar site on 21st of May 1992. The rich soils of the delta have been subject matter to intensive use for many decades, and the ecoregion has been by and large transformed to demanding crop growing, with few enclaves of forest left behind. Rests of the forests, jointly with the Sundarbans.