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Tea Research Association Jorhat
After Wild Mahseer it was time for another 4 or 5 hour car ride before our flight off to Kolkata but this time our flight left from Jorhat in Assam. While on route we passed a National Game park and saw herds of elephants and smatterings of Indian Rhinos scattered through out.
Our pictures were not great as we took them from a speeding car. We were behind schedule and had a meeting to ...
Wedding Recovering, Wedding Preps & Wedding Party
... have to be done for the wedding. Most importantly is the decision on the wedding venue ground. Once decided we all work hard to turn the little jungle area into a flat walk able piece of land. The beautiful thing of Eastern culture and community life is that people really help each other out here. A group of guys from the youth society is doing a lot, working almost every day. The women society gathers to decide on the cooking ...
Stammen in Aranuchal Pradesh
... om de knapheid van hun vrouwen die dan ook vaak door de Nishi geroofd werden. Om dit te voorkomen namen ze een radicale maatregel. De vrouwen kregen vanaf hun puberteit tatoeages op hun gezicht en pluggen in hun neus om ze daarmee minder aantrekkelijk te maken. Deze gewoonte begint pas de laatste jaren in
onbruik te raken.
We reizen verder langs de machtige Bramaputra rivier en bezoeken in de 10 dagen dat we hier zijn diverse dorpen ...
Exploring Assam
With just a light day pack, I left on a five day tour of Assam. My first stop was Tezpur, which would have been disappointing if the Brahmaputura River didn't run through it. Similar to my arrival in Guwahati, I had problems finding a hotel room in Tezpur. There were plenty of hotels, but they were mostly full, even though it looked dead quiet and it was the low season. There were also a ...
Namdapha, an encounter with the Mother forest...
... Horn-bill and it felt like the jungle was slowly accepting our
intrusion.Next morning, i woke up to birds chirping and a
thousand other noises that i had never heard before: the music of nature
i note. Amongst them was the loud voice of the Hoolock Gibbon (India's
only ape). It occurs to me that Namdapha is sacred for it is truly one
of the last remaining great wildernesses. The biodiversity is
mind-boggling, so many mammals, 500 species ...