A weekend break at Pobitara Wildlife

Submitted by admin on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 22:30

Life has become really hectic these days. The whole week just passes by with work, stress, tension and the weekend comes. One hardly realizes how or where have all the weekdays gone! Well for most of us at work that’s the story. So when I get an opportunity to get away from all the hustle and bustle even for a day, I never let it go unavailed. That’s the very reason I jumped and said yes when some my friends suggested a one night outing at Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary.

So on a Saturday morning in the month of February we started for Pobitara. It took only 1 and half hour to reach Pobitara from Guwahati. There is a place called Chamata on the way to Jagiroad from where a diversion goes all the way up to Pobitara wildlife sanctuary. The road is motorable. There is a signboard of the only resort near the sanctuary: Kunki’s Resort. So prior booking during weekend is absolutely necessary during season. Thanks to my friend Azam, an animal and wildlife enthusiast, we managed to do that conveniently.

About Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary

Pobitara Wildlife sanctuary, situated in Morigaon district merely about 52 km from Guwahati boasts of the highest concentration of Great Indian One-horned Rhinoceros. In fact with a density of five rhinos every square km, it is higher than that in Kaziranga National Park. Besides rhinoceros, the other animals are Asiatic buffalo, leopard, wild bear, large and small Indian civet cat, etc. Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is also home to more than 2000 migratory birds and various reptiles. A python park was under construction during the month of February. Moreover 80 species of butterflies, over 16 species of aquatic plants and 41 species of fish share their space in the Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary.

Covering an area of 38.81 square km, Pobitara was declared a Reserve Forest in 1971 and officially was promoted to the status of a Wild Life Sanctuary in 1987.

The Forest Department has facilities of Jeep safaris and Elephant safaris inside the park. Elephant safari is absolutely on first come first serve basis. Immediately after checking into the resort, we went to the Forest Office and booked us for the evening elephant safari. There were others as well. Since a few days were still left in the

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Hi Mayuri, whilst waiting for

Permalink Submitted by Sammy Minocher (not verified) on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 20:36

Hi Mayuri, whilst waiting for the first sign of -October to March - snow,(Toronto had a dash of it yesterday). it struck me that it would have been really nice if you had added a few photos too. but, I am content with whatever has come my way. - Thank you, Mayuri

The PDF edition contains

Permalink Submitted by admin (not verified) on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 22:56

The PDF edition contains images: http://www.posoowa.org/download/october2008.pdf

The trip thro' the

Permalink Submitted by a medhi (not verified) on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 13:35

The trip thro' the roade-route of Guwahati > Sonapur > Pobitora/ Mayong > Chandrapur > AmsangRF > Narengi > Guwahati is really enjoying. The whole route has tremendous eco-friendly atmosphere alongwith learnable traditional cultures of ethnic tribal villages of this small zone just near to concrete jungles of Guwahati. Thanks for nicely highhighting the zone. This type of articles in such a standard publishing forum will enhance tourism importance to the zone. Keep it up...