Positioned on the lower end of the Gangetic West Bengal, 22.00° N – 89.00° E is this world’s biggest delta enclosed by mangrove woods and huge salty mud flats. A land of 54 miniature islands, crisscrossed by frequent tributaries of Ganga, this is Sunderbans, the world’s biggest estuarine wooded area. Sunderbans, the place that owes its given name to Sundari trees, also consists of huge

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flora popularity like Genwa, Dhundal, Passur, Garjan and Kankra. One of the most notable traits of this place is the spear like roots of mangrove forests that fasten out on top of the water height.Natural world apart, if you want to experience the spirit of religion then this is the place to be. A situate of Ma Bonobibi (the goddess of the forest) to Shiber Kumir (Lord Shiva’s Crocodile) or from Dakshinaroy (an ogre, the ancestor of all tigers) to Kapil Muni (an incarnation of Vishnu).

The land that is occupied by Royal Bengal Tigers is not far from Kolkata. You can travel around unidentified natural world of Sunderbans that harbour jungle cats, fishing cats, Axis deer, wild boar, Rhesus monkeys, and the biggest estuarine crocodiles in the world. Sunderbans is the reproduction ground of vast miscellany of birds like Heron, Egret, Cormorant, Fishing Eagle, White Bellied Sea Eagle, Seagul, Tern, Kingfisher as well as traveling birds like Whimprel, Black-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Eastern Knot, Curlew, Sandpiper, Golden Plover, Pintail, White-eyed Pochard and also Whistling teal. One can also determine wide multiplicity of water and reptile life forms that include Olive Ridley sea turtle, hardshelled Batgur Terrapin, Pythons, King cobra, Chequered killback, Monitor and lizards counting the Salvator lizards. The Gigantic dolphin, little porpoise, Indian fox, jungle cat, small Indian civet, common grey mongoose, spotted deer, wild pig, Indian flying fox, rhesus monkey and pangolin are some of the inhabitants here.