Where I eavesdropped on the dew drops!
I heard the dew drops falling in the jungle! For the first time in my life, I was at a place where there was pin drop silence. So much so that I could hear the dew drops collected on the leaves falling on the forest floor. The dried leaves littered the forest and the falling dew drops sounded like rain in slow motion.
тЖС Our hired car picked us from this railway station and dropped us in the jungle тЖС
тЖС This bridge connects your innermost desire to silence & silence in golden. тЖС
тЖС We are in the land of the Tiger and other big cats. тЖС
тЖС For the next 3 nights and 4 days, we stayed in this double storyed cottage. The top floor was connected to the terrace with the canopy of trees arching over it. тЖС
Owlets hooted from the branches of these trees and a leopard had killed a giant squirrel just outside the fence of our complex.
тЖУ Flora & fauna тЖУ
Nature of the core forest:
тЖС Sipna river тЖС
тЖС The jeep safari тЖС
тЖС The land of the tiger is full of bamboo, teak and wild tulsi. тЖС
тЖС The blue gulbaxi flowers and the orange lantana flowers were in bloom. тЖС
тЖС Though the water was only ankle deep and half of the riverbed was dry, the moss and the algae in the slow moving water had made the round stones and pebbles quite slippery. тЖС
тЖС The beautiful forest floor. тЖС
тЖС We followed our faithful companion in the forest. тЖС
тЖС Food was simple and delicious. Not spicy, not oily. We enjoyed the meals. тЖС
тЖС These were our trekking routes in the jungle. тЖС
Route: 12.12.2024 Mumbai - train - Amravati - hired car - Melghat - hired car - Amravati - train - Mumbai 17.12.2024.
Expenses (INR per head in a group of 4 in TTMM):
Train - 3AC - between Mumbai & Amravati = 2104/-. Hired car - Non-AC Maruti Desire between Amravati railway station & Semadoh Melghat Tiger Reserve = 2000/-. Stay in A-type cottage = 2138/-. Rickshaw between Amravati railway station & Domino's Pizza = 58/-. Meals = 1742/-. 1 Jeep Safari = 983/-. 5 guided jungle treks = 900/-. Total = ~9925/-.
тЖС & we were here in MELGHAT TIGER RESERVE, Semadoh, Amravati from 13.12.2024 to 16.12.2024. тЖС
Read about my experience of Melghat in 2012 below:
JUNGLEBOOK: four days in November 2012. A train & a bus ride of more than 600 kms from Mumbai transported us into the raw jungle. Where the
