We came out at a village named Kakreji.Last view of Little Rann
We finally settled on a boat for 200 for one hour,fair enough.But few mins after the boat started from the dock.The boat rower started to show his true colors
He started telling us.The 200 rs ride only cover few parts of the Sanctuary,where there are very less birds.If you give me 1500 Rs i will show you the part of Sanctuary where most of the birds resides.What !!..This ain't fair.While he was telling all this bullshit,Ankit was after flamingos .Rower said,it Flamingo ride will still cost you 1000 rs.Grrr,We bargained...bargained and bargained.Finally we all agreed in 200 Rs.
Cheers
Biru
We moved towards Dhrangadhra,then Surendra Nagar and made it to Nal Sarovar by 05 PM.We quickly parked our bike and went to check out the rates for boat ride.The lake seemed beautiful from a distance,and too my surprise there were lot many birds around.
The place was quite empty,no tourist crowd at all.I can only see the 20-30 boat owners waiting for customers.Just when we went to them to get the price details.Everyone around surrounded us and started pulling us to board into their boat.Some said 2000...some said 100.Such difference 'Kuch to Jhol He'.Everyone was shouting around,it was total chaos.As Ankit was asking me 'Biru,What to do..which boat to board'...everyone other boat owner started calling me 'Bidu/Biru hamari boat me aao,full ghumaynege'.
We finally settled on a boat for 200 for one hour,fair enough.But few mins after the boat started from the dock.The boat rower started to show his true colors
He started telling us.The 200 rs ride only cover few parts of the Sanctuary,where there are very less birds.If you give me 1500 Rs i will show you the part of Sanctuary where most of the birds resides.What !!..This ain't fair.While he was telling all this bullshit,Ankit was after flamingos .Rower said,it Flamingo ride will still cost you 1000 rs.Grrr,We bargained...bargained and bargained.Finally we all agreed in 200 Rs.
The so called guide cum boat Rower told us that there are about 300 species of birds in here. The lake is of 182 sq km with 360 islands (WTF !!) to see the pelicans, flemingos, various species of ducks, white cranes, herons, evomets, long-beaked curlews and other birds. At the evening time, it was a great pleasure watching those birds from boats. No Wonder Nal Sarovar Sanctuary is one of the most Eminent sanctuaries in India.
Cheers
Biru
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