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Discover the wilderness of Sundarban forest: Your perfect escape

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sundarban Forest is one of the most scintillating examples of raw nature's beauty and serene landscapes. This wonderland with its extraordinary mangrove ecosystem and rich biodiversity hosts the majestic Royal Bengal Tiger. For all those seeking an escape from the city chaos, a Sundarban Package from Kolkata offers the perfect retreat. Whether one is an ardent wildlife lover or just finds solace in the midst of nature, Sundarban is bound to capture the heart.

The best time to visit Sundarban is from November to February. This cooler season becomes easy for a journey in the forest because of pleasant weather conditions. The lush green, vibrant bird life, and peaceful waters evoke a magical experience. A Sundarban package from Kolkata during these seasons promises a hassle-free trip as everything, from comfortable stays to guided tours into the wild, is made available to customers.

It is a treasure trove of surprises. Winding waterways in Sundarban will provide you with the finest sceneries and natural sounds, so much so that it would remind you of a nature documentary while you spotted crocodiles basking in the sun or get a glimpse of playfully leaping dolphins. The best time to visit Sundarban ensures you see this paradise at its finest point, with clear skies and thriving wildlife adding to its allure.

A Sundarban Package from Kolkata caters to every need of a traveler. Beginning from the bubbly city of Kolkata, the journey goes up to Sundarban in a perfect transition into the wild. It has pickup and drop services along with other cozy accommodations and thrill-seeking safaris. Enjoying the adventure without a care is a thing of fun because it comes all wrapped up with packages for solo travelers, friends, or family.

Plan your visit to Sundarban in the right way and thereby make it even more rewarding. One will perceive that favorable weather is not the only reason to enjoy Sundarban, but several cultural festivals of the region will also be fulfilled. From Bonbibi Utsab to local fairs, it will give a colorful highlight to your journey.

For those who are looking forward to an adventure with relaxation, the Sundarban Forest provides an unbeatable excursion. Upon availing a Sundarban Package from Kolkata makes the journey both convenient as well as enjoyable. With each turn of the boat, you are welcomed by some beautiful scenic views with it promising you something untamed. The expert guides provided with the package help you unveil all the secrets of this magical forest while making it an enriching and safe experience.

Don't wait to see the enchanting beauty of Sundarban. Book your Sundarban Package from Kolkata now and let the charm of this natural wonder leave you spellbound. Remember, the best time to visit Sundarban is just around the corner so make the most of it!

For bookings and inquiries, contact us at: tel:+91 6290403668 Email: junglawala@gmail.com Website: https://tourdesundarbans.com/

Address : 11, Chowringhee Ln, Colootola, New Market Area, Dharmatala, Taltala, Kolkata, West Bengal 700016

Step into the heart of nature. Sundarban is waiting to welcome you!

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15 Amazing Facts About Sundarban Delta in Hindi | सुंदरवन के बारे में 15 रोचक और आश्चर्यजनक तथ्य

सुंदरवन नेशनल पार्क भारत और बा��ग्लादेश के सीमा पर स्थित एक बहुत ही प्रसिद्ध नेशनल पार्क है। 15 Amazing Facts About Sundarban Delta: यह नेशनल पार्क बाघों के लिए जाने जाते हैं। बाघ परियोजना (Project Tiger)के तहत यूनेस्को की विश्व धरोहर स्थल और बाघ संरक्षण के लिए एक प्रसिद्ध स्थान होने के नाते सुंदरवन भारत और बांग्लादेश में डेल्टा के किनारे वन्यजीवों की शानदार झलक पाने के लिए हर बाघ प्रेमी के लिए…

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The Finest Flower of the Mangroves

A young royal Bengal tigress in mangrove bushes.There are perhaps only 200 of these animals in the Sundarbans mangrove forest. According to the last survey, conducted in 2018, there were 114 tigers in the Bangladesh portion of the Sundarbans. The West Bengal forest department’s tiger estimation exercise for 2020-21 put the number of big cats in the region at 96. These Bengals are the only tigers adapted to live in a mangrove habitat.

Photograph: Soham Bhattacharyya

Mangrove Photography Awards 2023

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Breathtaking Bangladesh: A Tapestry of Natural Beauty

1. Lush Sundarbans Mangroves: Bangladesh boasts the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, known for its vibrant biodiversity. This UNESCO World Heritage Site teems with unique species, including the elusive Royal Bengal Tiger. Its intricate network of waterways and dense foliage create a mesmerizing labyrinth, while the tranquil riverboat cruises provide an up-close encounter with nature.

2. Serene Riverine Landscape: The country's extensive river system, including the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers, weaves a picturesque tapestry across Bangladesh. These life-giving waterways sculpt fertile floodplains and support diverse ecosystems. As visitors explore the countryside, they encounter lush green fields, charming villages, and serene lakeside vistas that showcase the tranquility of Bangladesh's nature.

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"Tears Of Global Warming"

This picture was taken from Satkhira , Khulna, Bangladesh which is low-lying coastal region nearby word largest mangrove forest " Sundarban". People living in this region, even 2/3 years back they never thought that they will lose their households, agriculture land, school, hospital, mosque etc. Now every 24 hours they submersed with 4/5 feet water twice for 8/9 hours. The island's green belt is almost disappearing and new habitable land infrastructure is being lost to the sea every day due to rise of sea level and climate change caused by increase of global temperature day by day. Photographer: Sharwar Apo

Budapest International Photo Awards 2022

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Sundarban National Park: The Mangrove Majesty | Outdoorkeeda

Sundarban National Park, located in West Bengal, India, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its dense mangrove forests and diverse wildlife. Spanning over 1,330 square kilometers, it is home to the elusive Royal Bengal Tiger, saltwater crocodiles, and a rich variety of bird species. The park's intricate network of waterways and tidal islands create a unique ecosystem, making it a vital conservation area.

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Sundarbans Closed to Visitors for 3 Months to Protect Wildlife Post-Cyclone Remal

In an effort to safeguard the wildlife and biodiversity of the Sundarbans, the Forest Department announced a three-month ban on visitors, effective from Saturday until August 31. This decision follows the significant impact of Cyclone Remal on the region last week. The restriction applies to both tourists and those who enter the forest for livelihood activities. “No one will be allowed to enter…

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Beautiful scenery of Sundarban Delta Forest

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The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent to the border of India's Sundarbans World Heritage site inscribed in 1987. This place is great for wildlife photography.

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Firebolt

The frequency of extreme weather events including lightning strikes is increasing every year in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh.

By Jahid Apu, Bangladesh

Mangrove Photography Awards

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The Sundarbans is a region that covers 3,900 square miles (10,000 square km) of southern Bangladesh and a small section of Eastern India. This region is densely covered by mangrove forests and contains the largest natural reserve for the Bengal tiger. Over the past two centuries, approximately 2,600 square miles (6,700 square km) of the Sundarbans’ land has been developed.

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About the lethal world-altering power of "legal fictions of property" and creation of laws in British imperial attempts to control the monsoon-flooded rivers and deltas of Bengal, described in Debjani Bhattacharyya's work (Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta, 2019). Other scholars have also come to similar conclusions about British treatment of Bengal. It's kind of a nice microcosm not just of British rule in South Asia, but also of imperial attempts to control ecology, communities, and imaginations across the planet.

In deltas, shorelines, seasonally-flooded rivers and riparian wetlands, mangrove forests, etc., there may not be clear distinctions between "land" and "water". The boundaries might change every year, every season, sometimes every day, depending on tide, floods, etc. So, if empires like Britain or the United States are to control such a place, there are two different challenges here. One challenge is, maybe more obviously, material, physical. The other is ontological, imaginative, etc., or what not.

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The material or physical challenge is:

How does the empire tax or administer properties if the property changes seasonally depending on rivers, floods, precipitation, etc.? How does the empire "manage" local social/financial conditions if there isn't clear recognition of a stable title, landlord, authority figure? Where is the solid property boundary that can facilitate ownership transfer, zoning, revenue collection, etc.? How does the empire force people into industrial or plantation labor if the empire can't use the threat of home-loss or job-loss to coerce local people? How does the empire install development projects or extractive industries, like roads, bridges, monoculture/plantation fields, etc., if the land and water are always in motion, fluid, changing?

The ontological challenge is:

Part of the empire's power comes from its ability to conquer the imagination, to capture the future, to insist that there is no other way, there are no other options. Empire is inevitable. And the empire insists that borders are "real", definite, strict. But how can you believe the empire's claims about strict boundaries, about the inevitability of their future, when you can clearly see an alternative, when you are living in an ecosystem where land and water are in a kind of dance, influencing each other, fluid, impermanent?

And the empire doesn't appreciate physical, material challenges. But the empire especially doesn't want any ontological challenges. If you can identify other ways of being, alternative lives, other futures, you undermine the empire's claim to inevitability and inspire others to live otherwise. In a way, a river or a delta or an estuary, they are a provocation; as if they were alive, agents themselves, these environments are a direct challenge to empire's claims.

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A summary of this imperial conundrum, from Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl:

'[T]his tropical coastal ecology is a site of continual refiguration: neither sea nor land, neither river nor sea, bearing neither salty nor fresh water […]. The Sundarbans covers an area of 10,000 square kilometers of intertidal zones between parts of southwestern Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India. The largest mangrove forest in the world […]. As a landscape, the Sundarbans is marked by unfixity, since its intertidal nature places it between appearance and disappearance – with islands being submerged overnight. […] [T]heir porous quality does not allow for clear border-making. [...] [W]e are met with the trembling instability of borders. [...] [H]ere the coastline becomes indiscernible as a single entity. The legal vexations of such amphibious and obtuse terrain become pronounced in sea-rights cases, wherein border-making becomes the necessity of tenure.' ["Sensing Grounds: Mangroves, Unauthentic Belonging, Extra-Territoriality." e-flux Journal Issue #45. May 2013.]

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So, those "legal vexations", "wherein border-making becomes the necessity of tenure [ownership]"? That's what Bhattacharyya discusses, how laws become "technologies of property" in Bengal.

Basically, Bhattacharyya describes "the legal processes through which the mobility of the landscape was accommodated into the architecture of ownership" (p. 77); "drying a tidal landscape was as much an infrastructural project as it was an ontological endeavor in producing a dry culture with colonial law as its handmaiden" (p. 83)' "the materiality of the paper" functioned as "a legitimizing object of modern property" (p. 100); the British/US/imperial imagination of rivers were "characterized by a cartographic-mindedness that captures and fixes the spatial mobility. The colonial journey is one of reterritorialization that involves mapping, measuring and fixing" (p. 122).

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In the tags of my post, I mentioned that the "legal engineering to conquer rivers in Bengal" is also the focus of two other scholars who examine the relationships with water, the creation of private property, and the power of colonial law-making in Bengal:

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Rohan Ignatious D'Souza.

D'Souza authored Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (1803-1946), which provides nice coverage from the East India Company, through the Mutiny and nineteenth-century expansion of finance and plantations, into modernist development of the twentieth century.

And I think Lahiri-Dutt sums up this whole situation nicely:

'Traveling through Bengal in the eighteenth century, […] [travelers] saw a highly sophisticated water-based economy – the blessing of rivers […]. Bengal’s essential character as a fluid landscape was changed during the colonial times through legal interventions that were aimed at stabilizing lands and waters, at creating permanent boundaries between them, [...] in a land of shifting river courses, inundated irrigation, and river-based life. Such a separation of land and water was made possible not just by physical constructions but first and foremost by engineering a legal framework. […] BADA, which stands for the Bengal Alluvion and Diluvion Act, a law passed by the colonial British rulers in 1825 […]. Nature here represents a borderless world, or at best one in which borders are not fixed lines on the ground demarcating a territory, but are negotiated spaces or zones. Such “[...] spaces” comprise “not [only] lines of separation but zones of interaction…transformation, transgression, and possibility” […]. Current boundaries of land and water are as much products of history as nature and the colonial rule of Bengal played a key role in changing the ideas and valuations of both. […] [R]ivers do not always flow along a certain route […]. The laws that the colonial British brought to Bengal, however, were founded upon the thinking of land as being fixed in place. […] To entrench the system, the Permanent Settlement of 1793 created zamindars (or landlords) “in perpetuity” – meaning for good. The system was aimed at reducing the complexities of revenue collection due to erratically shifting lands and unpredictable harvests in a monsoon-dependent area […]. From a riverine community, within a hundred years, Bengal was transformed into a land-based community.' ["Commodified Land, Dangerous Water: Colonial Perceptions of Riverine Bengal." RCC Perspectives, no. 3. 2014.]

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Part of why I appreciate Bhattacharyya's take on it is that she focuses on what was lost, not just in terms of physical landscape, material accessibility, etc., but also what was lost culturally, emotionally. Stories, traditions, ways of being. This is why Bhattacharyya describes this process of British rule in Bengal "a history of forgetting". She says: "And because we forget, it is harder for us to imagine alternatives".

Basically, British legal maneuvers to strictly define borders between land and water in Bengal, achieved several things: Yes, faced with frequent seasonal/annual changes of where shorelines and islands, etc., were located, part of the benefit of this legal defining and clarification of solid land was allowing the empire to map and administer stable segments of property for purposes of taxes, records, and development projects (roads, bridges, canals, etc.). This "permanence" of property then allowed for the opening of the door to financialization, so that investors in London or Calcutta could participate in financial speculation on the real estate market.

Another benefit was the installation of "private" property and strengthening the power of landlords, enforcing a social hierarchy, detaching poorer people from land access, resulting in conditions of indebtedness. Of course, the precarity of debt and lack of access to land then essentially forced poorer people into wage labour, factory work, plantations.

After all, Britain needed laborers to staff its expanding and notorious Assamese tea plantations. And the empire did this repeatedly elsewhere, too: Alienated people by using legal frameworks to force them into debt or homelessness, and then using those alienated people to work in terrible industrial conditions, often far away from their homes. Just as earlier nineteenth-century metropolitan London staffed its factories with indebted and impoverished people from elsewhere in England, Britain staffed its Assameses tea plantations with poor people from central India, and Britain staffed its plantations and infrastructure projects in Malaya with "coolies" and convicts from Bombay.

Outside of these material consequences, there is also the insidious lasting devastation of alienation itself. Emotionally. Loss of stories, songs, traditions, relationships, etc. The river, the delta, the ecosystem that you know and love, is not accessible to you. And so the empire's definitions and traditions are made resolute, the only possible future. There is no alternative.

But the river says otherwise.

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"The Sundarbans forest is in the eastern deltas of the Bay of Bengal. Freshwater swamps meet the mangrove forests that edge the sea in a complex tangle of waterways and mudflats. It is home to the Bengal Tiger, as well as many other mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. Bonbibi is called the Lady of the Forest, and is protectress of the Sundarbans. She is venerated by both Hindus and Muslims who live within the environs of her forests in eastern India and Bangladesh, and she is the guardian of all the plants and creatures in her domain. She can be protector to those who perform the proper rituals of respect before they set out in a perilous excursion into her terrain. Her lands are treacherous and shaped by the ebb and flow of sea, by weather, and by the cycles of life and death, growth and decay, and filled with predators that are stronger and quicker than humans. Living within her boundaries is to accept those dangers as well as to flourish in the fertile bounty and resources. It is a contrast of the inhospitable yet rich, and an acknowledgment of humankind’s small place within that uncertain wilderness." Lady of the Mangroves ~ from the "Protectors" series by Stephanie Law ~ @spmlaw ~ quote from Modern Eden Gallery