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I guess I went through a writers block the last month or so. I thought I’d mention this before I disappear this weekend.

I’m heading out on a 3 week vacation to Namdapha tiger reserve in Arunachal Pradesh. Namdapha has been my dream for many years and after months of planning, the trip is finally happening. Namdapha is the only place in the world which supports 4 big cat species – Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and the Clouded Leopard. Also on the trip are some of the amazing scientists from NCF.

The plan is to start from Miao and trek the next 12 days to a small village named Gandhigram. Gandigram is called the ‘last village in India’ and is cut-off from rest of the world with thick forests all around. Neither India nor Burma claim this town and hence the tribals in this village are left by themselves. Most of them hunt wild animals and have been hunting extensively in this National park.

The one way trek is about 120 KM long and mostly I’ll have to walk all the way back, which will make the whole thing a 240 KM walk. If time permits, we might swing by Kaziranga on the way back. Will keep a detailed log of the trip and hopefully will post it all as soon as I get back.

In other news, I finally managed to update my photo gallery and put some new photographs up.

9 Comments

  1. Anonymous · November 14, 2007 Reply

    Fantastic pics….keep up the good work!

    ~C

  2. wild_guy · November 15, 2007 Reply

    240 kms Trek! in the thick forests? Wow! Thatz thrilling!
    All the best and i hope you spot all the 4 big cats and entertain us with some amazing pics as you always do.

    Cheers!
    -Krish

  3. jace · November 15, 2007 Reply

    Let me know if you need the disk. I’ll need a few hours notice to take out my existing data.

  4. admin · November 15, 2007 Reply

    Thanks a ton man. Will let you know by end of the day.

  5. shivakumar_l · November 15, 2007 Reply

    Have a nice trip/trek dude – hope you get to see the clouded leopard / snow leopard during the trek. 240kms sounds pretty long 🙂 Catch you back at chrismast/newyear bash.

  6. Anonymous · November 16, 2007 Reply

    All the best

    Have fun during the trek. 240kms sounds long enough, but should be good fun. And I hope you are able to click some very good pictures as always.
    -Ramki.

  7. Anonymous · November 16, 2007 Reply

    Great pics…
    Will wait till you’re back with big cat pics from Namdapha reserve 🙂

    -Sandeep

  8. rahul_gurjar · November 16, 2007 Reply

    great photos

    Kalyan – always nice to see your new photos. have fun in arunachal. hope you get to see and snap some of those carnivores.

    -rahul

  9. ashbirder · November 17, 2007 Reply

    saw the new photographs. loved the plant pics !

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