"Oww...are...we...there...owww...yet When your sentences come out like this, you know you are truly offroading. I was in Nagaland for a wildlife feature. And this was an unplanned offroading outing. You see, we had expected roads where there were none. Lets jog back to how I got here...
For a wildlife enthusiast like me, the discovery of an erstwhile extinct in the wild turtle species was big news. It was also the reason I was on my way to the Wozhu Tsophow wetlands near Akuk village in Wokha. In search of the freshwater, black, soft-shell turtle, our team took the well-known route to what is now the only existing natural habitat of these turtles Dimapur-Kohima-Wokha-Akuk. And then, the rains came. But what harm could a little precipitation do, right Not much to good roads, but when the entire route has disintegrated into a bed of rocks, a downpour can be catastrophic. Optimistic headlines about Northeast tourism have been a regularity of late. So I was very surprised to find such abysmal connectivity between two prominent districts, Kohima and Wokha.
