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IndianSamouraihttp://www.indiandacoit.com/about.htmlAssamese break!tag:www.indiandacoit.com,2011-04-26:33096942011-04-26T08:30:00+02:002011-04-26T08:30:00+02:00 2 years ago I went for work to Guwahati, in Assam. I had strictly no idea...
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">2 years ago I went for work to Guwahati, in Assam. I had strictly no idea where Assam was but since there was work there, why not go?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I realised fast enough that I was far, far away from Mumbai. No internet (except in private houses) even with the datacard, constant electricity cut-offs. An incredible number of insects. I was there for work remember, so all this was quite unexpected!! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Then I saw on a map where I was and I thought that it was the first time and the last time...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.indiansamourai.com/media/00/00/1896611036.JPG" target="_blank"><img id="media-3003004" style="margin: 0.7em 0px;" title="" src="http://www.indiansamourai.com/media/00/00/1026302397.JPG" alt="Inde,Assam,Kaziranga,parc naturel,rhinocéros,nature" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Till the moment my distributor said 2 magic words. Rhinoceros and Brahmaputra. Done, one day I'll go back to Assam...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It took me two years but I did it!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">No need to say, Assam is a difficult place to reach but maybe it is part of what makes it so unique. Probably the most beautiful place I have seen in India!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">About </span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">5 hours by plane to reach Guwahati then 6 hours by car to get to the natural park of Kaziranga. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the place with the most number of uni-corn rhinoceros in the world. And Indians did a fantastic job: there were only a dozen rhinos left 50 years ago and now there are more than 2,000!!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And they are so confident they won't be disturbed that they don't mind the elephants (carrying the tourists), nor domesticated cows - a good companion to chew grasse...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">2,000 is even a greater number when you know that gestation lasts 15 months for a rhino and that they reproduce only once in 8 years (they have to wait for the baby to be grown-up and independant before starting again!).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It is SO peaceful there. Just needed to tell one (Indian) family jabbering on an elephant to please be silent. They got so surprised!! Maybe no one told them that on a wildlife safari it is better to remain quiet?? Minor incident anyway... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Photos speak for themselves...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><table style="width: 194px;"><tbody><tr><td style="background: url('https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif') no-repeat left 50%; height: 194px;" align="middle"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/113722806080137265434/KazirangaAssamApril2011?feat=embedwebsite"><img style="margin: 1px 0px 0px 4px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_D7vFtaxcObY/TbbIEx4TvaE/AAAAAAAAARo/o8N3mUuvHMI/s160-c/KazirangaAssamApril2011.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold; color: #4d4d4d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://picasaweb.google.com/113722806080137265434/KazirangaAssamApril2011?feat=embedwebsite">Kaziranga, Assam - April 2011</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p>
IndianSamouraihttp://www.indiandacoit.com/about.htmlIndia outside India - Part 2tag:www.indiandacoit.com,2011-03-01:31158722011-03-01T08:13:00+01:002011-03-01T08:13:00+01:00 And then, Nepal!! The first day, in Kathmandu, under heavy...
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And then, Nepal!!</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The first day, in Kathmandu, under heavy rain, I felt like in India.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And then, I realised people were quite different. The Indian doctor accompanying it understood different as “backward” (seriously!). But I meant it like more “relaxed”, more comfortable with tourists. Well that is just how I felt after 4 days!</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyways, the reserve we visited, the Chitwan, is really different from any reserve I visited in India.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">“At the foot of the Himalayas, Chitwan is one of the few remaining undisturbed vestiges of the 'Terai' region, which formerly extended over the foothills of India and Nepal. It has a particularly rich flora and fauna. One of the last populations of single-horned Asiatic rhinoceros lives in the park, which is also one of the last refuges of the Bengal tiger.” </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366;">(dixit Unesco)</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The only “vehicles” you meet there are elephants… A royal peace!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, the vegetation prevents you from spotting tigers but what a peace…</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/00/00/1780926659.jpg" target="_blank"><img id="media-2904748" style="margin: 0.7em 0;" src="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/00/00/4004448430.jpg" alt="Nepal1.jpg" /></a></p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/00/01/4089753282.jpg" target="_blank"><img id="media-2904750" style="margin: 0.7em 0;" src="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/00/01/2836361854.jpg" alt="Nepal2.jpg" /></a></p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/02/00/843739394.jpg" target="_blank"><img id="media-2904752" style="margin: 0.7em 0;" src="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/02/00/2490325966.jpg" alt="Nepal3.jpg" /></a></p></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/02/02/460416129.jpg" target="_blank"><img id="media-2904753" style="margin: 0.7em 0;" src="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/02/02/642746334.jpg" alt="Nepal4.jpg" /></a></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #003366; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><p style="text-align: center;"><img id="media-2904755" style="margin: 0.7em 0;" src="http://www.indiandacoit.com/media/00/02/456109678.jpg" alt="Nepal5.jpg" /></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>