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Trip to Sunderban
The Educational trip to Sundarban on 14th April has been successfully completed. There were a total of hundred students accompanied by three teachers. A State Transport Bus was hired to take us to a place called Dhaniakhali and back. At Dhaniakhali we boarded a ferry that showed us around the creeks and mangrove forests of the great ecological site.
The learning experience from the trip was not much, though there was a lot of fun and entertainment. The selection of the time of the trip was ill suited.
Most of the wild animals were deep inside the jungles and could not be sited.
It being the time of the Bengali New Year, there was a lot of crowd and this frightened even the crocodiles away. Usually one gets to sight the crocodiles most easily. Thus I don't think we really learned very much.
We met a lot of local people and interacted with them. We asked them about the animals and their habitat. The people we met were really helpful.
We had to do a lot of running around at Dhaniakhali. None of us were aware of the place. Booking a ferry, negotiating the charges, arranging lunch was really hectic. I wish we hadn't had to do so many things.
On the whole the trip was good value! We love the experience. Since I had just finished reading Amitabh Ghosh's The Hungry Tide' the previous week, I found the trip even more interesting.
I hope we learn from our experiences and in the next trip we implement the things we have learned.
