Jambughoda wild life sanctuary, only leopard rore nothing else

Jambughoda is not a well-known and famous wild life sanctuary, as per local peoples of that zone, no wild life will be visible in day time, and still I had visited the place during monsoon with a least hope. The sanctuary is 200km from Ahmedabad and easy to travel through road, we drive through Ahmedabad Vadodara express highway, get the halol exit, and then drive through Vadodara hallol highway, take halol bypass to reach jambughoda, reach destination with the halp of GPS easily.

Oriental white eye

Jambughoda forest

white browed fontel

 little cormorant

 

Gujarat forest department is running two forest guest house in jambughada where a/c room 1500Rs and non AC room 500 Rs, namely dhanpari and kada. Dhanpari is well maintained having food facility, kada is near kada dam 1.5 km inside forest without food facility, for food you should come back to dhanpari,

Near kada dam another beautiful guest house with splendid view of kada dam also having watch tower facility is available for forest officers only, not for common people.  

 kada dam

red wattled lapwing                                 

 

pied kingfisher

From the eco-tourism gate about 1km vehicle is allowed, we reach the place early morning, entry fees was 400Rs, and we took a guide for 200Rs, there is no safari inside, we do a nature walk through the dance forest of teak, bamboo, mahuda, we did climb the hill though huge slippery rocks, and come down to the kada dam, our guide show us leopard pug mark, bears den, many birds but alas no animal was seen. We was roaming near the kada dam for photography, suddenly we hard leopard roar, it was thrilling we wait for another hour at that place, hard the roar second time but did not fortunate enough to see the big cat, But I must admit the forest was magnificent, greenery all around, it gives an extraordinary view of surrounding kada dam, so once you plan for a visit don’t expect animals only enjoy greenery.

Asian Paradise flycatcher