We rose and were served a good breakfast prepared by our
guide and a helper, since Bader had left and there was no one else who knew how
to prepare Western eggs. After some
bird-watching right around our cottage, seeing numerous Kingfishers catching
fish and chasing each other out of their territories, we drove to
a traditional
mask-maker at a local Sutra or monastery.
Then we went on to traditional home-based pottery makers, who use native clay and large open kilns to prepare thousands of pots for sale throughout the region.
Proceeding to our next ferry, we found it was large, had perhaps over a hundred and fifty passengers and 30 motorcycles, and they loaded our car last, so we waited in the heat for half an hour or so. The trip took an hour and a half going against the stream and then we unloaded the car at Nimatighat, and the driver had to gun his engine to get up the steep hill off the ferry.
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| Inner Sanctum of Sutra |
Then we went on to traditional home-based pottery makers, who use native clay and large open kilns to prepare thousands of pots for sale throughout the region.
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| Making pots for curd |
Proceeding to our next ferry, we found it was large, had perhaps over a hundred and fifty passengers and 30 motorcycles, and they loaded our car last, so we waited in the heat for half an hour or so. The trip took an hour and a half going against the stream and then we unloaded the car at Nimatighat, and the driver had to gun his engine to get up the steep hill off the ferry.
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| One of the many people keeping an eye on us |
We had lunch at a hotel 20 kilometers on in Jorhat, and had
another request for someone to join our car, this time Bader, the manager of
the homestay where we had been the night before. Again we declined on safety and space
reasons, but this seems to be a common practice since locals are used to having
10 people or so in one of these vehicles.
A couple of hours more and we reached our hotel in Kazaranga, which was set up as about 8 modern bungalows separated from the reception/dining building by a garden, and had an overhead fan and hot water heater, as well as real sheets on the bed. We took advantage of this latter factor to have our silk cocoon sleep sacks, which had been used continuously for several weeks and were getting very ripe, laundered. We set up a bird-watching jeep safari to the park for the next morning at 7:15, had dinner, charged our computers, downloaded a few pictures from our camera, and went to bed.
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| What do you mean no room in your car? Safety? |
A couple of hours more and we reached our hotel in Kazaranga, which was set up as about 8 modern bungalows separated from the reception/dining building by a garden, and had an overhead fan and hot water heater, as well as real sheets on the bed. We took advantage of this latter factor to have our silk cocoon sleep sacks, which had been used continuously for several weeks and were getting very ripe, laundered. We set up a bird-watching jeep safari to the park for the next morning at 7:15, had dinner, charged our computers, downloaded a few pictures from our camera, and went to bed.
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| The usual overflowing ferry~ |
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