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Once you land in Gauhati your journey to the exotic begins. Gauhati is very well connected from any corner of India by flights or train. You may wish to spend that day in Gauhati. There are plenty of places where one can stay. There is a decent and clean place for everyone and every pocket. In the evening while being in Gauhati one must also do the great Brahmaputra cruise. ( My next blog will be about the same.). We came into Gauhati a little after 2PM. Next day early morning we started our journey to the Kaziranga ranges. The Kaziranga ranges are in the north of Gauhati and the journey by road takes approximately 5 hours. One can also take the train from Gauhati and the nearest railway station to Kaziranga are Furkating on the east, which is 80 km away. Furkating is connected by trains from Guwahati. A metre gauge railway track earlier laid by Assam Bengal Railway from Chittagong to Lumding was extended to Tinsukia on the Dibru-Sadiya line in 1903...

The moment one hears of Mumbai, they picture this metropolis as a concrete jungle. To a certain extent, they are not wrong as it is a concrete jungle indeed. Having said that there are certain biodiversity platforms which also make Mumbai a unique place in itself. SUNRISE AT THE BHANDUP PUMPING STATION AT 0630 hrs..... Many have heard and read about the Borivili National Park, which is considered as the lungs of Mumbai and National Geographic Channel did a feature on it sometimes back. Wildlife like the leopards is at the pinnacle of the food chain in this national park. Not many though know about another biodiversity National Park, of the ministry of forests, Maharashtra Government, in the suburbs of Mumbai and that is the BHANDUP PUMPING STATION NATIONAL PARK. When I heard about it I was little sceptical, because the Bhandup Pumping Station is actually a sewage treatment plant and all the dirty waters from the Mumbai metropolis is treated here. Its a huge wastewater ...