Balkarsir, I am also passionate about Flora of Chakrata, may not be at par with you. But this part of Western Himalayas has fascinated me from 2009 and onwards. I look forward to join you in March `13.
More discussion over the phone :) -- Regards Rajesh Sachdev http://project-matheran.webs.com https://www.facebook.com/leopardguy On 20 May 2012 09:01, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All > We reached back home on night of 18 May after an another successful visit > to Chakrata region. For the information of members I wish to share some > important things. > Chakrata is situated in Uttarakhand State in Dehradoon District. This > region is considered as a paradise of botanists due to many regions. This > place is still far away from general tourists and completely out of bound > for foreigners. Hotel facilities are still highly underdeveloped in the > area as only 3-4 hotels are there. Even forest rest houses are situated in > remote area and with lack of basic facilities like electricity, poor toilet > and bath facilities, non availability of water etc. So natural vegetation > is still intact and very very less plastic pollution. there are no much > places to visit for general tourist. Besides all this this is the best > place for nature loers. Budher is famous for beautiful butterflies. In this > dry season also we could saw 2-3 dozens type of beautiful butterflies. This > time we could saw many precious medicinal plants in budher and deovan area > naturally like Podophyllum hexandrum (in fruiting stage), Taxus baccata, > Polygonatum multiflorum (in flowering), Polygonatum verticillatum (in > flowering) etc. More than two dozens of trees were also seen in flowering > stage. This time we interacted with many locals there and after many > discussions we reached on the conclusion that Chakrata region must be > visited in the month of Feb/March (End of Feb to first week of March) then > in Mid of July to end of July then in september and also in November. > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
