A Day in Paradise...
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Off to Bharatpur ...
A three-days break
( ... starting tomorrow )
to Keoladeo National Park
Bharatpur ...
Half a day each of
travel time
From Delhi ...
and two-days stay in
the Forest Rest House ...
The FRH at KNP
Shanti Kutir ( Peace-cottage )
has
quite a history ...
It was used as
the Hunting Lodge by
the Rulers of Bharatpur
in Princely India ...
In 1938, as was the
annual convention
then ...
the erstwhile
Hindu King of the
state invited the then
British Viceroy of India
Lord Linlithgo ... for
a Duck shoot ... and
the Lord eliminated
4273 water-fowls
in one shoot alone ...
Out go compassion
Peace and equanimity
... Buddha and Jesus
... in come
Passion ( nay Lust )
... Shot-guns
and gun-shots ...
... there is a
stone in the
park to remind one of
the event ...
... In what is mentioned
as the best Bird-area in
the World ...
by
none other than
Sir Peter Scott
( Link :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keoladeo_National_Park )
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Quite a happening
... It was
I'll be breathless
To match that ..
Even with a
Fast modern camera ...
....
What a relief ...
... Though
We are
Celebrating
Christmas
Soon ...
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Birds seen here are :
1.Bar-headed Goose
2.Great Egret
3.Great Cormorant
4.Grey Heron
5.Eurasian Spoonbill
6.Anhinga ( On right-edge
of the Island ... )
23.12.2013
