Red Panda Expedition at Singalila National Park 

Tripoto
6th Nov 2016
Photo of Red Panda Expedition at Singalila National Park  1/1 by Upamanyu Roy (Jai)
Day 1
Photo of Siliguri, West Bengal, India by Upamanyu Roy (Jai)
Day 2
Photo of Singalila National Park, Singalila Forest, West Bengal, India by Upamanyu Roy (Jai)
Day 3

The trip starts from City of Siliguri, Situated at Northern part of east Indian of West Bengal.

Participants from various destinations meets here at New Jalpaiguri Railway Station or Bagdogra airport or at Tenzing Norgay Bus terminus.

From Siliguri the team on a hired cab will reach at a Place call Maneybhanjan,the entry point of Singalila National Park from the southern part.

Photo of Tumling, Nepal by Upamanyu Roy (Jai)
Photo of Tumling, Nepal by Upamanyu Roy (Jai)
Photo of Tumling, Nepal by Upamanyu Roy (Jai)
Day 4

At ManeyBhanjan the team will obtain entry permit and our naturalist will meet us here.We will be on Old Land Rover and will reach a place call Tumling a tiny hamlet at Eastern Himalayas. In Tumling we will stay at a Home stay or our own tent. Tumling is one of our base camp for Red Panda Search.

Photo of Gauribas, Central Development Region, Nepal by Upamanyu Roy (Jai)
Day 5

For the next 4/5 Days the team search for Red Pandas at forests nearby Gauribas and Tumling. Apart from Red Pandas the team will do birding ,search for other cat species such as leopard cat and will do some landscape photography at Sandakphu for one day. The team will trek intensively inside the valleys and will change its base camp according to the need.

On Day 7 the team will finish its Search operation and will be back to Maneybhanjan again for return journey.

Image courtesy - Darjeeling tourism,East-Himalayas,Tripoto.