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Sundar
Chital Tourist Lodge, Sunderbans
About
Sunderbans National Park
Sundar Chital Tourist Lodge, situated near to the mangrove
wild hub land of Sundarbans at Sajnekhali, is the
beautiful government run tourist lodge of Sundar Chital.
For reservations contact - West Bengal Tourist Development
Corporation.
Accommodation Facilities :
A 60 bed lodging provision available in the tourist lodge.
Other Services :
Watercraft to:
Nimkhana, Bhagabatpur, Lothian & Holiday Islands
Water Launches available at Sonekhali and Namkhana.
Tourist Launches on hire are available from the Tourist
Bureau.
All three meals a day
All entrance fee & permit charges.
To & fro transfer services from Kolkatta and back.
The stay can be increased on pro-rata basis.
Leisure Activites : 1/2/3 day
Tours to STR & Tiger Projects.
Cruise through the mangroves by a special dedicated motor
boat.
Accompanied by a nature guide on the cruise.
About Sunderbans
National Park
Sunderbans, the world’s
largest delta and mangrove swamp, is formed by the merging
of three rivers- the Ganga, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna-
and has a 2,585 sq km wildlife sanctuary that extends into
Bangladesh. The Wildlife Sanctuary, which is the world’s
largest estuarine sanctuary, has some of India’s most
interesting wildlife, and is worth a visit.
Spreading over a series of densely forested islands and
saline water channels, Sunderbans is home to spotted deer,
wild pigs, monkeys, herons, kingfishers, white bellied
eagles and almost 270 Royal Bengal tigers.
The tigers of Sunderbans are known to be mostly man
eaters- mainly because of the lack of other suitable prey
in the area- and the entire estuary has become, over the
past decades, a place where you have to be on the alert
all the time. Hunters, honey-collectors and fishermen from
the neighbouring areas wander through the sanctuary
throughout the year, and there are an average of 40
maulings a year. This is an improvement on past figures,
however, as the forest department has introduced a number
of measures- including masks and electric dummies to scare
off maneaters. According to local folk culture, it is
still believed that Bonbibi, the goddess of the forest,
protects the villagers on their hazardous missions. A
possé of armed policemen accompanies all visitors who
venture into these 'beautiful forests’.
Sunderbans’ other creatures include estuarine terrapins,
Olive Ridley turtles, estuarine crocodiles, Ganges
dolphins, water monitors and a wide variety of birds, fish
and crustaceans. Also part of Sunderbans is the Sajnekhali
Bird Sanctuary. Besides a heronry, the Sajnekhali
Visitors’ Centre has a crocodile enclosure, a shark pond,
a turtle hatchery and a Mangrove Interpretation Centre.
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