Sundarbans diary – Leaving Bangladesh
In the fifth and final episode of her travelogue, Jennifer Nandi comes away admiring the simplicity of Bangladesh country life A village pond with a mugger/ marsh crocodile JANUARY 7,…
Category: Travelogues
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Bangladesh Sundarbans – At the Tiger’s Dining Table
Despite the many natural treasures they harbour, the Sundarbans are most famous — and notorious — for the creature that dominates the food chain. In the fourth episode of her…
Beautiful Forest – Adrift in the Sundarbans
In the third episode of her Bangladesh travelogue, Jennifer Nandi enters the sinuous spiderweb of the Sundarbans, where the sluggish rivers are reluctant to lose their freedom to the sea
Heading for Bangladesh’s Sundarbans
Everybody speaks about the Sundarbans as if they belong in India. En route to Jessore we endured fog delays and an interminable wait. #travel
Slowly down Bangladesh’s Shitalakhya River
Jennifer Nandi recounts her travels along the Shitalakhya River in Bangladesh in this first of a multi-part blog series on exploring the intriguing mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, by boat!
Chaukhamba, the four-pronged mountain of Garhwal
I was drawn to the massif gleaming in the horizon as it towered over the lesser ranges in the foreground Chaukhamba (right) from Bedni Bugyal. The peak next to it…
Encounter – The Mighty Chaukhamba
At 7,138 m, the Chaukhamba massif is huge and cold. The permanent layer of snow on it influences local weather and explains the shroud of clouds around it.
In the arms of Shiva – a trek to Tungnath
Our destination is Tungnath, the third Kedar, and my purpose is religious only in a pagan sense. To walk the wild Himalayas, breathe their bounteous air, encounter their wildlife, their trees and wildflowers, rivers and springs, and to be at the mercy of their elements is pilgrimage enough for us.
California dreaming with gulls and squirrels
At a viewpoint on the California coast, we stopped for a bite, and got more than we could chew.
Iruppu-Brahmagiri on foot
Birdsong brings comfort to tired trekkers ascending to the heights of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats