This morning transfer 3-hours from Kolkata, travelling through rural countryside to the jetty at Gothkhali and arriving around midday.
From here you will be transferred 2-hours by small boat through the mangroves to your lodge in the Sundarbans Delta. Along the way you can observe local farming, paddy husking, honey picking and fishing which are the major occupation of the local people. We also stop at one of earliest settlements in the Sundarbans - the house of Sir Daniel Hamilton, a Scottish businessman who made Bengal his second home and initiated the first co-operative movement in India,
Sundarbans National Park is the world's largest mangrove forest and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering an area of over 10,000 sq km over half of which is located in neighbouring Bangladesh. Here the mighty Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers converge with the Meghna, Padma and Hooghly Rivers, before flowing into the Bay of Bengal. It is a maze of over 100 small islands (on the Indian side alone) and serene canals, where swamp tigers roam free and where the landscape is transformed by tide twice each day.
In the afternoon enjoy a relaxing wildlife boat ride through these creeks and dense mangroves, before returning to your lodge at sunset. In the evening experience traditional Adibasi tribal dancing around a campfire.