Hi,
My last trip to india, in the dry season, really impressed me, so I wanted to see it again during the monsoon.
With some help of a german herpetologist and after lots of mails we planed the tour.
After a long flight and stay-over at the delhi airport we reached the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station.
As we thought the weather was really wet, hours of heavy rain with short breaks. The station is in the montains, so it was a bit cold and couldn't warm up because of the cloudy sky. But still, lots of interesting animals around us, so we were fine
Just for our cameras the conditions were quite bad, so I just took my small Nikon Coolpix out in the rain, but it was better in the next days...
The people there were really kind, helpful and always ready to go for a walk through the area...
first snake crossing our way, juvenile checkered keelback, Xenochrophis piscator
Nephila sp.
Little later, during a heavy rainstorm we found a malabar pit viper in the foyer of the station. A beautiful, big female, she stayed there for one or to days...
Right next to our house, big indian rat snake Ptyas mucosa
flooded meadow, with many rocks to flip at the forest edge
(sorry for the hands on the pictures, but it was impossible to get a picture on the ground...)
Ramphotyphlops braminus
Lygosoma guentheri
one more malabar pit viper on the side of a river (with the small camera again )
It was the first short stop on our journey, after 3 days we moved a few kilometers further to the Kalinga Center for Rainforest Ecology, where we spent the most time of the trip.
regards