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Hopping across 2 Jungle Lodge Resorts over a weekend: A short road trip

5th March 2025, 09:06 by Deepankar Sadekar

There are 2 JLR properties not too far from our house, so we decided to visit these 2 places.

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This one is a very short trip done over the weekend mainly for 2 reasons. One, I was itching to use my camera and click some birds and second we wanted to see how our cats would react if we were not around.

Over last year or so we had 4 kittens walk into our home and we ended up adopting them. After the first one came home, we were away from home for 4 days in early 2024. When we returned home the kitten was sick and it took almost a weeklong medication for it to come back to good health. This incident created some hesitation every time we wanted to plan a trip. Now we have 4 cats, oldest one is almost 1.5 years old and youngest being 4 months old. But now we have a neighbour who also has a cat, this gave us some comfort and we planned this short trip asking our neighbour to keep an eye on our cats.

There are 2 JLR properties not too far from our house, so we decided to visit these 2 places. This also gave me an opportunity take those cameras out of cold storage and put them to some use.

We left home on Friday morning (14/02/2025) around 10:00 AM and our destination was JLR - Aanejari Butterfly Camp which is about 120 KMs away. We reached there in couple of hours after stopping for a coffee at Pakashala, Kumbashi on the way. Last 1 Km is unpaved road, but it should not be any challenge to most cars.

This property is located on the banks of Souparnika river and is home to 5 different kinds of Kingfishers. So if you are lucky you may get to spot them all.

I spent my afternoon looking for these birds on the riverbank. There were a lot of monkeys there and also a lesser fish eagle because of which birds stayed away and all I got to see was a Cormorant and a Darter.