Balais notes

Mr Sumit Batabyal, Director of a travel firm, Wandervogel and a good friend always nagged me that that I should visit Ndutu in Tanzania at least once to enjoy real African wild life beyond Mass Migration. He always highlighted that in February each year, thousands upon thousands of wildebeest and zebras migrated to Ndutu mainly to calve thousands of foals. And taking full advantage of this opportunity, all the predators from lions, cheetahs, hyenas, leopards, foxes and even large birds like vultures and eagles, lie in wait in close proximity so that they can feast on the hapless foals or their parents at the first opportunity. And the opportunities are many and come often. Needing no further coaxing, in mid-February, 2016, six of us comprising my friend of nearly 60 years Mr Udayan Das Gupta, his lovely wife Sharmila, my nephew-in-law, Dr Pranab Ghosh, and Mr Gautam Sen and Mrs Anjana Sen who are good friends of Udayan made it to the Kilimanjaro airport on 16 February 2016. There we w...

Mr Sumit Batabyal, Director of a travel firm, Wandervogel and a good friend always nagged me that that I should visit Ndutu in Tanzania at least once to enjoy real African wild life beyond Mass Migration. He always highlighted that in February each year, thousands upon thousands of wildebeest and zebras migrated to Ndutu mainly to calve thousands of foals. And taking full advantage of this opportunity, all the predators from lions, cheetahs, hyenas, leopards, foxes and even large birds like vultures and eagles, lie in wait in close proximity so that they can feast on the hapless foals or their parents at the first opportunity. And the opportunities are many and come often. Needing no further coaxing, in mid-February, 2016, six of us comprising my friend of nearly 60 years Mr Udayan Das Gupta, his lovely wife Sharmila, my nephew-in-law, Dr Pranab Ghosh, and Mr Gautam Sen and Mrs Anjana Sen who are good friends of Udayan made it to the Kilimanjaro airport on 16 February 2016. There we w...

 Mr Sumit Batabyal, Director of a travel firm, Wandervogel and a good friend always nagged me that that I should visit Ndutu in Tanzania at least once to enjoy real African wild life beyond Mass Migration. He always highlighted that in February each year, thousands upon thousands of wildebeest and zebras migrated to Ndutu mainly to calve thousands of foals. And taking full advantage of this opportunity, all the predators from lions, cheetahs, hyenas, leopards, foxes and even large birds like vultures and eagles, lie in wait in close proximity so that they can feast on the hapless foals or their parents at the first opportunity. And the opportunities are many and come often. Needing no further coaxing, in mid-February, 2016, six of us comprising my friend of nearly 60 years Mr Udayan Das Gupta, his lovely wife Sharmila, my nephew-in-law, Dr Pranab Ghosh, and Mr Gautam Sen and Mrs Anjana Sen who are good friends of Udayan made it to the Kilimanjaro airport on 16 February 2016. There ...