An Amazing Trip to Kaziranga: Part 1
WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD! I had first visited Kaziranga National Park as a child way back in the mid-80s. At that time, we used to live in Manas Wildlife Sanctuary. For us sisters, Kaziranga was a rival jungle. We were the Manas girls -nothing could beat Manas. Perhaps this attitude of ours prevented us from enjoying the beauty of Kaziranga and its memories remain vague and uneventful. With time and age, I have come to appreciate every single vista of greenery, our present selves being trapped in concrete jungles. Hence, when the time came for the husband and me to visit our respective home towns in Assam, we decided to grab the opportunity and stay a night in Kaziranga, breaking the tedious 500 km journey from Guwahati to Tinsukia via NH-37. For the record, Kaziranga is a World Heritage Site and hosts two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned Rhinoceroses, attracting hordes of tourists every year. Still, we had not expected the scale of commercialism that to...