1983 India: Kaziranga Forest (11/28-29/1983)

Monday, November 28, 1983

Currency exchange receipt from Park Hotel

Flew from Calcutta to Jorhat. Then it was a taxi (?) the 96 km/60 miles to Kaziranga Forest.
A special permit was required to enter Assam, and there were cautions against going there because of political problems. But I wanted to see the Indian rhinos that are protected in the Kaziranga Forest.

View from the Kaziranga Forest Lodge

Kaziranga Forest Lodge room

Kaziranga Forest Lodge

Kaziranga Forest Lodge driveway

Coffee plant

Ficus elastica/Indian Rubber Tree scored to collect sap

Rubber tree plantation

Trees in neat rows

Rubber tree collection point

Elephant Temple with a feast below 

Farm

Farm fields

Rubber smokehouse with sheets drying

Tea plantation

Assam is a major tea growing region, and has its own native tea species: Camellia sinensis var. assamica.

Assam tea bushes

Bougainvillea

Musa sp/Banana tree

Girl sweeping the dirt road

Euphorbia pulcherrima/Poinsettia

Tuesday, November 29, 1983

Currency exchange receipt from Kaziranga Forest Lodge

An early morning excursion, on the backs of elephants to be safe from the dangerous Rhinoceros unicornis/Indian Rhino. It was very foggy.

Rhinoceros unicornis/Indian Rhino

Bubalus arnee/Asiatic Wild Water Buffalo

Family unit?

The best and safest way to travel through
the marshy area of tall grasses and see wildlife

Cattle egrets on a rhino

Rucervus duvaucelii/Swamp deer, locally called Barasingha

Swamp deer

Swamp deer in the swamp

Elephant and driver

The flight from Jorhat to Calcutta was so late that I had to sit in the airport all day and missed being able to see anything in Calcutta. Styaed at the Hotel Airport Ashoka in Calcutta.

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