I am in India to get away from Canadian winter. In January, I took a two-day trip to Sundarban, a mangrove forest at the mouth of Bay of Bengal, bordering India and Bangladesh and home of Royal Bengal Tiger. Finding a tiger here is tough as there's no entry inside the forest, one has to take a river launch and hope that a tiger happens to cross a river to go from one side of the forest to the other where your launch is. Well, we saw many footprints on the muddy shores but no real thing.

However, I saw a few Rhesus Macaque foraging by a riverbed, during low tide. Apparently, they look for crabs or small fish - something that I didn't know about their adaptation to the landscape - there are hardly any fruiting trees in the forest. One was standing guard in case any tiger sneaked up from the nearby forest.

Sundabnan, India

This romeo is bleeding

But you can't see his blood

It's nothing but some feelings

That this old dog kicked up

It's been raining since you left me

Now I'm drowning in the flood

You see I've always been a fighter

But without you I give up

Now I can't sing a love song

Like the way it's meant to be

Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore

But baby, that's just me

If you told me to cry for you

I could

If you told me to die for you

I would

Take a look at my face

There's no price I won't pay

To say these words to you

Well, there ain't no luck

In these loaded dice

But baby if you give me just one more try

We can pack up our old dreams

And our old lives

We'll find a place where the sun still shines

Sundarban

When a honey comb is located torches are made from dry palm leaves to smoke the bees out. For most of the year they work as fishermen but during the honey season they brave the giant Asian honey bees and Royal Bengal tigers and venture deep into the forest.

Sundarban, Bangladesh

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Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest in the world

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This is a photo of a place near the Sundarbans. The Sundarbans is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which is in between some parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal (India).

Taxi

Life in Sundarbans

সূর্যদয়ে তুমি, সূর্যাস্তেও তুমি

ও আমার বাংলাদেশ,

প্রিয় জন্মভূমি।।

তোর এই আঙিনায়

ধরে রাখিস আমায়

চিরতরে।।

In the south western part of Bangladesh, in the district of greater Khulna, lies the Sundarbans, "the beautiful forest." It is a virgin forest which until recently owed nothing to human endeavour and yet nature has laid it out with as much care as a planned pleasure ground. For miles and miles, the lofty treetops form an unbroken canopy, while nearer the ground, works of high and ebb-tide marked on the soil and tree trunks and the many varieties of the natural mangrove forest have much to offer to an inquisitive visitor.

Here land and water meet in many novel fashions. Wild life presents many a spectacle. No wonder, you may come across a Royal Bengal Tiger swimming across the streams or the crocodiles basking on the river banks. With the approach of the evening herds of deer make for the darking gladeswhere boisterous monkeys shower Keora leaves from above for sumptuous meal for the former. For the botanist, the lover of nature, the poet and the painter this land provides a variety of wonders for which they all crave.

Sundarban is the natural habitat of the world’s Royal Bengal Tiger and spotted Deer.Deer is very common in the Soundarbans. It is one of the most beautiful dear in the world. They like to live in flock. In a flock there are 10-25 deer live together. Mostly they live in grassy forest. The main enemy of them is Royal Bangle tiger, which is only found in the Sundarban.

Sundarbans, enshrouded in the early morning haze.

The Sundarban is the largest mangrove forest in the world. The name Sundarban can be translated as "beautiful forest".

The forest lies in the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal. It became a UNESCO world heritage in 1997.

Wildllife thrive in this unique and delicately balanced ecosystem and it is home to large numbers of mammals, birds and fish. It is also one of the largest haunts of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger.