National park
The unmistakable long hopping sound of the gibbon
The unmistakable long hopping sound of the gibbon
and their brilliant display of agility and family bond
can captivate a visitor to lawachhera Forest.
It was a foggy morning in the forest even in the beginning of July. I always drive dead slow when enter the forest road that divides Lawachara National park. The way in always fascinates me. The sound of fragmented silence created by the pauses in the continuous buzzing of the cicadas, the drama of shades in lights fall through thousands of tiny gaps of the canopy and the colors of life hidden in the messy dead forest floor takes me to the surreal world of eternal creation. If we ignore some scattered human intervention around the ecological paradigm here could be the same as it was million years ago.
Start a mission: That was the start of a mission for a day, a hard sweaty daylong walk in the hilly terrain in the insect infested jungle which is quite hot and humid at daytime. Unlike the exciting and action packed nature programs we often see on TV, the average scenario of the jungle is often frustratingly monotonous. Hours after hours pass by, seems nothing happens except the continuous photosynthesis in the green around.
Tiredness: But this tiredness and boredom immediately goes away like magic when adrenalin rushes through either when we experience some exciting drama of the life of the wild animal, or when photograph a bird with extra ordinary beauty, or when we see an insect with an unimaginable character, or when just we look at the magnificent array of colors and shades on the petals of a tiny wild flower through our favorite Macro lenses.
