part of my journal

hi
i went to duars a few days ago. i enjoyed the trip vry much. here is a part of my journal. hope u like it ...

28th May, 2005

Departed from sealdah station at 1:40 pm. Name of train – tista torsa.

29th May, 2005

8:40 am – we reached Koch bihar station. 8:45am we started our journey by two tata sumos. We arrived at kumkum aunty’s sister’s house. We cooled down ourselves here. Great house. It was like an ac. Then we resumed our journey to jayanti. We reached a bungalow called abokash in the duars jungle. It had a great garden with bright blooming flowers. We went to an almost dry river to bathe. It had many noories and pathars which pricked our foot as we walked on them. It had very little water and so we sat in it. After half an hour or so we returned to abokash. It had very dirty bathrooms. In the first floor it had a huge beehive. It had a wooden staircase. Others who shared the rooms with us were a variety of insects. We used to scream our heart out whenever a big buzzing one approached us. Abokash had no electricity. The lanterns were our only source of light. We ate our lunch at almost 5pm. Buroda and I went for stroll. A leech attacked me. I was their first prey. I found it before it did anything. Then buroda told us ghost stories upto 8pm. At night I slept with bunkudi, ashimamami, purnimapishi. I had a sound sleep.

30th May, 2005

In the morning, we woke up at 6pm. Having a superb breakfast (ruti and alur torkari) we started towards a lake. We travelled through dense forests. The scenic beauty simply startled us. Then at a place we had to stop from where we began our trekking. Dwijeshmama was attacked by a leech. I was shocked to see the way it sucked blood. After climbing a steep way through the jungle we reached a lake. We saw two tortoises drinking water. We took photos of them. Then I tilakmama, tushi, bandi (bandhuli), Tia, putu, hirumama, went upwards. I took a photo from the top. Then I, tilakmama, abhijitmama, tushi, and bandi came downwards by ‘chorabatoras’ while others went by cars. After walking almost for 2km we reached the main road. But we couldn’t find the cars nor the way towards to our bungalow. We waited for some minutes and then continued our journey by the way I guessed. After walkinf another half an hour we saw the cars coming behind us. We had almost made it to the bungalow when the sumos found us!! I expected many scolding since we had made them anxious for us. But they did not.