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Garumara
Jungle Camp is located at Chalsa (West
Bengal, India). The
camp is a few minutes drive from Garumara National Park (Home
to One-horned rhinos) and Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and
fabled by numerous rivers, streams and picturesque tea
gardens.While the
Garumara National Park located on the bank of rivers Murti and Raidak has vegetation of riverine grasslands interspersed with savannah woodlands, Chapramari is more of woodland with very tall trees and thick canopy cover
Camp
is part of eco-tourism initiative to revive what at one point
was a hub of eastern India’s largest timber industry. It has
now transformed a dead industry and to an extent brought back
economic sustenance for the locals of the nearby village -
Mangalbari.
This
camp is spread over 70 acres with a supporting forecast patch
and small tea garden. It is a drive of five to ten minutes to
the forests from the camp. The forests are a home to a variety
of flora and fauna. The rhino, elephant, Indian Bison reign
these protected areas. Rivers, hill drives, interesting
villages, folk culture and old temples are truly a real time
experience here.
Care
has been taken to develop the infrastructure of the camp to
suit the needs of the tourists. All the abandoned staff
quarters have been renovated into 26 double room cottages.
Facilities such as restaurant and a “good food kitchen”
have been set up. The landscape, has a bio-garden that
supplies to the kitchen while the rugged terrain enclosed by a
lofty sal forest serves as a natural boundary. The area offers
one of the best locations for natural history study and bird
watching apart from viewing big animals. Another wildlife
sanctuary, Chapramari, is also located nearby.
Dooars
is the gateway to the hills of Nepal and Bhutan and northeast India
lies in the Himalayan foothills has great natural beauty and is home to some of the most varied flora and fauna.
It
is an ideal
destination for nature lovers who desire to learn, appreciate
and explore the bounties of nature.
Chalsa is best accessed via Kolkata
(Howrah)-New Jalpaiguri
(71 kms) by Train or Bagdogra (78 kms). It is also accessed
alongwith Darjeeling (110 kms) in a East
India Itinerary covering Sikkim.
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