Andamans Diary – A dash to Havelock Island
Jennifer Nandi makes a quick dash to Havelock Island to peer into a world of colourful fish named after parrots and butterflies Introduced in November 2009, the Makruzz is a hovercraft. It leaves at 7.30…
Category: Travelogues
How far can those itchy feet take us? In this section, you can thumb through travel series, trip reports and more from Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and the Americas.
We haven’t been to Antarctica yet, but the day’s not far.
Andamans Diary – Mount Harriet National Park
Antibiotic-addled Jennifer Nandi is awestruck by the avian diversity at Mount Harriet National Park Excitement keeps us on high alert as we leave the hotel at 5.30 am to take a ferry across the bay to visit…
Andamans Diary – Leaving for Chiriya Tapu (Birds Island)
Jennifer Nandi’s Andaman dream almost crash-lands before it takes off again, wobbly but steady As a child, I remember a photograph of my father being garlanded by an elephant on the Andaman Islands where he…
In the Flat Forest, Abode of the Frogmouths
Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, also known as Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary, is located between the branches of the Periyar River in Ernakulam district of Kerala. The great birdman Salim Ali had surveyed Thattekad in 1930 and…
Sundarbans Diary – Oh Calcutta!
Jennifer Nandi bids goodbye to the Sundarbans and acclimates to civilisation as she traipses the streets of crowded Kolkata The famous bridge over the Hooghly River in Kolkata January 12 – Leaving for Kolkata During…
Sundarbans Diary – In celebration of alert laziness
On the last leg of her sojourn in the Indian Sundarbans in West Bengal, Jennifer Nandi enjoys an off-day that turns out quite rewarding Jan 11, 2010 Our definition of a pleasant morning – few tourists! We…
Sundarbans Diary – The Enormous Estuarine Crocodile
Cruising through the backwaters of the Sundarbans in India, Jennifer Nandi marvels at the estuarine crocodile, even as her thoughts turn to the conflict between these fascinating reptiles and the ecosystem’s human inhabitants Estuarine crocodile…
Entering the Indian Sundarbans
With the Sundarbans of Bangladesh behind her, Jennifer Nandi explores the Sundarbans of West Bengal, India. Political boundaries, she finds, are not the only dividing line between the two nations. Beginning her journey at Kolkata, she…
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, 2010 We come away from…
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 Sundarbans travelogue in Bangladesh, Jennifer…
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 is Shivling (near Gangotri). Photo:…
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.