How thick is thick?

You would naturally think that how thick is thick, if I keep repeating that Kanha is a thick jungle. Of course words would always be short of explaining you the density of this forest to the hilt. But what if I say there are areas where the ground has not seen sun light in quite some time. Would that give you some idea?

Indeed there are several such areas in Kanha. You don’t even get to go to most of them. We were lucky to pass through probably one or two of that kind. And January is of course winter time. The morning safari that would commence at six in the morning almost killed me due to frozen blood. Awlrity, I am exaggerating. But for a boy who lived all his life in Mumbai, roaming around in an open jeep when the temperature was some one or two degrees centigrade and chilly winds were in the face, Kanha was as cold as Antarctica!

And the funny part is when the sun rises you feel blessed while you actually get the sun. Like you would get if you are on the sunny road as seen in the picture. But you reach the turn where again those thick layers of Sal trees don’t let the sunlight reach the ground, the cold gets worse.