Murti
We have done with our Chilapata safari. Now we are heading to Murti. We have said goodbye to our Chilapata guide. Its a winter evening. Hasanur is driving fast. Old Hindi songs are getting played on the music system. We all are singing with it on familiar lines. Specially Argha is not stopping singing at all. He is enjoying the trip. We all are enjoying the trip.
Its a moonlit night. Otherwise it would be dark everywhere. There are some lights wherever markets or human habitations are present. Probably we are now taking a shortcut. This path is going through a dry river bed. The journey seems a bit long to me.
Road map from Chilapata to Murti
( I left the scale in geometry box long time back )
The place Murti is situated at the bank of river Murti. This place is located close to the Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Gorumara National Park. We are currently going through the forest. Its dark inside. Hasanur has stopped the car on a small bridge. He is telling that elephants avoid bridges. So we have stopped on the bridge. All lights are turned off. We are sitting inside the car and all the windows are opened. We all are enjoying the beauty of jungle in the night. And we are enjoying it silently.
Now we have crossed the jungle and moving on a bridge. The river Murti is flowing under the bridge making a nice sound. Our destination for tonight is on the other side of the river. I am feeling tired after this long car journey.
We have reached at Resort Murti. We have booked a cottage here. I went with Soumya on a weekend to book all the accomodations from Kolkata. We first went to the office of West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Limited (WBFDC). There we could not get booking in the WBFDC cottages. All the WBFDC accommodations to our desired destinations were already booked. We were thinking about what to do. Then one employee of WBFDC informed us about a private travel agency who can make arrangements for our accommodation. We then walked for some time and reached at that travel agency. From there we have done the bookings.
At Murti, the resort we are staying is not far from the river Murti. The resort is spacious and nice. It seems newly built. The cottage we are staying is very big. The room has two big sized double beds. In between there is comfortable sitting arrangements with a nice center table. The bathroom is also very big. The floor and walls all are white and looks clean. We are very happy to see our accommodation.
There is a badminton court in front of our cottage. Soumendu is playing badminton there with some other tourists who are staying in the same resort. The rest of us are relaxing inside the room. We have ordered two plates of Egg Pakora and it has just reached. There are eight peaces of pakora in every plate. We are total four people. So there are four peaces per head. Its a winter evening and the pakora is hot. So no point of waiting to turn them cold. I am sharing a plate with Argha and we are having equal number of peaces. Soumya is goint to share his plate equally with Soumendu. But since Soumendu is playing badminton, Soumya is hitting a ton with the pakoras. And ultimately just one peace is left for Soumendu.
Now Soumendu has returned after playing badminton. He has attempted to catch fish from the badminton court. Thanks to his Woodland shoes. Now we all are sitting inside the room and having chats. Soumendu is eating that single peace of egg pakora after making a very soft complaint.
Next part: Murti - Part 2
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