From Kaziranga to Bhutan: crossing without a “COW walk”
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Jon Hall
nice Mac – I crossed from Bhutan into India back in 2008. There was a general strike in India that day and so roads were blocked and potentially troublesome … I remember walking over the border, not showing my passport to anyone, then getting into a car and joining a convoy of 50 vehicles led by the Indian army. Definitely no COW walk!
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Jon Hall
I was travelling in the opposite direction. The Indians were striking. Here’s my report https://www.mammalwatching.com/2008/12/23/assam-2008/
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Evan
That’s great you got such great tiger views at Kaziranga! When I went in January 2023 it seemed like they were only spotted at all about once every 10 safaris, and we came up empty-handed (though I was indeed told that March would be better due to grass conditions).
My most memorable border crossing is also from this region, and surprisingly framed India as the more orderly country. This was leaving Bangladesh in the direction of Kolkata. The bus arrived an hour early for the Bangladeshi border office’s morning opening, the bus staff took everyone’s passports, and we all queued up in a line snaking back and forth between a series of portable barriers. Someone eventually showed up to return our passports to us by shouting each person’s name over the crowd and handing them out. Once the office opened, a stampede began of people jumping the barriers to cut the queue. Some locals (“Welcome to Bangladesh!”) ended up having to help me counter-cut ahead due to my heavy backpack and lack of gymnastics practice. Once we got through to the other side to enter India, the Indians were having none of it, having replaced the waist-height queue barriers with three-meter-tall anti-climbing walls.
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Tina Greenawalt
Looks like I was a little over a week behind you on a similar itinerary, but we did Manas NP in India instead of Kaziranga and then crossed into Bhutan.