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Jan 22nd, 2007, 00:31
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| Maha Guru Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Vancouver
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| First Sunderbans river cruise to start from Jan First Sunderbans river cruise to start from Jan Bs Reporter / Kolkata January 18, 2007 The first-ever river cruise on the largest surviving mangrove forest in the world, Sunderbans, is likely to start from the third week of January. The cruise would start from Kolkata and go up to Dhamakhali in Sunderbans, a distance of close to 200 kilometres.Vivada Inland Waterways (VIWL), the operator of the Sunderban river cruises, is also planning to start upstream cruise to Allahabad and Patna from Kolkata later this year. http://www.business-standard.com/lif...eft=4&leftnm=5 |
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Jan 22nd, 2007, 01:14
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| Member  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: South of England.
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| ?????????????????? I'm confused, I thought there had been Sunderbans river tours for a few years, I'm sure I remember reading about someone's trip. There is a (established) tour company been offering river tours for a couple of years (Is it Patels?). I'll have to have a look at some of my old info. |
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Jan 22nd, 2007, 08:31
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| bang a whore? Bangalore Dammit!  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bangalore
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| which reminds me of the Discovery channel story on the Tigers of the Sunderbans. Interviewing the forest guards, one of the chaps who patrolled on the boats said (paraphrasing) We are all playing cards and drinking on the watch when the man eater swam up and grabbed one of them by swimming upto the boat. It all happened in a flash, he said. Dude, after seeing Jaws, anything over 1 feet of water, you're shark bait; so no entering the water. now these tigers simply grab you whereever you are. no boats now. Makes me want to cry. 
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Jan 22nd, 2007, 09:59
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 | Or, one can pick up a copy of The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh's outstanding novel about the region, which entails lots of traveling around by bost there.
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Jan 22nd, 2007, 11:33
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| The company I was thinking about (post 2) is Coromandel, but I can't find anything on their website. I'll attempt to tidy up my room today and hopefully find their brochure. |
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Jan 22nd, 2007, 11:37
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| Infidel Sufi  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx
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| quoting from the link "the total package will be of three days and two nights. We are charging Rs 15,000-20,000 per person for the package," she said. The operator is targeting inbound tourists from the UK, USA and other European countries." expensive, i think.
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Jan 22nd, 2007, 15:01
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| Photography enthusiast  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bangalore
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| Cruise from WB Tourism Some Sunderban cruises are already operating since long, though they do not start from Kolkata. The Cruise from WB state tourism starts from Sajnekhali, connecting bus from Kolkata are part of the package. Some of my friends recently boarded this cruise and overall feedback is very good. Check out this link. http://www.wbtourism.com/wildlife/su...ise.htm#cruise Sunderban river cruises has been discussed recently in our forums, you can try this post for few more links. Cruise in the Sunderbans |
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