Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary

This is my surprise today for Laurent and Sarah. We had a small problem to find the place since that I didn’t allowed both of them to look at the map and finally we reached there, to the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary. It isn’t far from Delhi and it is nice to have a walk on Saturday or Sunday morning. We are happy to find this place which is not far from Delhi. I would recommend this Bird Sanctuary to all of friend who is living in Delhi to go and have a look. It is worth it.

About Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary.

Sultanpur Bird Sancturay is located in Gurgaon district of Haryana, about 50 km from Delhi and 15 km fom Gurgaon and the Gurgaon Farukh Nagar Road. This park is best visited in winters, when a large number of migratory birds come here. In the old map and district gazetteer of Gurgaon district, this area is shown as marshy land having a ‘salt pan’ where water accumulates during rains and dries our during summer. A number of organisms like crustaceans, fish and insects thrive during floods which attract a number of birds to this area. Its sanctuary potential was first identified by an enthusiastic bird watcher, Mr. Peter Jackson. He convinced Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, of the need for giving protection to this area keeping in view it’s importance and potential, the area covering 359 acres was declared a bird sanctuary in 1971 and was upgraded to the status of National Park in 1991 by Haryana Government.

Big Kiss from NDH/Gros becs de NDH

Incident at the airport.

We were at the Indira Gandhi International Airport last night, waiting for Stephanie and Oliver: the friends that we have met in Abuja, Nigeria. I was watching at the people on arrival hall and realized that among them, a lot of senior citizen from Europe. They have chosen this country (India) for their vacation. They looked tired after a long journey and at that moment, they had to wait for their luggage. The airport is smaller then what they thought: I had the same in my head when the first time, I arrived in New Delhi. The airport itself, isn’t really pleasant for one country who considered itself as a develop nation.

I look up on the ceiling; there I saw a lot of electric cable hanging around and I look down on the floor; some mark of the “panne” on it. I asked myself; when they will have a world class airport like what they said all the time while there is still a lot of thing has to be done starting from the mentality of the people.

I turned to the immigration counters and still there was no sign of Stephanie and Oliver. I look around the place, look at the people. After a while, I saw Laurent moving forward to the escalator to welcome our friends and at the same this one immigration officer asked me step back. I found that so ridiculous because Laurent and me are from the same Embassy and both of us having the same authorization batch. It was clear for me that was only about our skin color. Laurent is a white man and he is allowed to do what he wants while for me as an Asian there is a line I have to follow. Neither what I felt that time was the racisms are very much alive and it wasn’t the first time anyway nor the last. As long as I’m living in this country, I know that I will face this discrimination. The

It is hard to be in the place where you feel that you are not belong to and it is hard to face all these thing in your everyday life, and that you can’t integrate with the local people. I use to tell all of my friends and family who would like to come and visit us here and at the same to visit this magnificent pays about what they will face here: about how rude they can be, how arrogant they are most of the time, about their hygiene or most of the time about my opinion of this country. I do regret to tell the people about what is really happening here and I don’t like at all to do that but I think it is also can help other who wish to spend their time here for the next vacation. India is a very nice country which offered variety of culture and religion. From north to south, east to west: India is shown its different color of life.

Big kiss from NDH/Gros becs de NDH

Un petit souvenir avec Madame La Presidente

Well, luckily it is a long weekend here in India after receiving Mrs President and for us, I mean everyone at the Embassy feels tired after this visit. These three days is really to stay at home and take a rest. But for sure there will be some more event in the coming weeks.
The locals are celebrating the festival of light and I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone whose celebrate this festival:

Best wishes on Diwali and New Year

On this auspicious occasion of lights. May each moment shine with peace and prosperity and leave behind wonderful memories, that assure happy days ahead.

Big Kiss from Ndh/Gros becs de Ndh

1st day of Mrs President visit to India

Mrs. Micheline Calmy-Rey - The President of Swiss Confederation.

These are parts of the program of her on her 1st day visit here in Delhi. On this afternoon, she and her delegation of 12 persons will make a trip to Hyderabad and will spend the night there.

Voici la partie du programme officiel de la premiere journee de la presidente de la confederation a New Delhi. Cette apres midi, Madame Calmy-Rey et sa delegation vont faire un voyage a Hyderabad et vont passer une nuit dans cette ville.


The Swiss flag made of flower was a wife of the ambassador creation. I guessed that she watch the Hindi movie that is why she knows how to roll on the grass ;-) or perhaps she take the courses with the Bollywood stars during their shooting in Switzerland....hihihi.

Le drapeau suisse fait avec des fleurs est la creation de la femme de notre ambassadeur. Je pense que Madame Calmy-Rey a bien regarde les films de Bollywood c'est pour cela et comme cela qu'elle a appris a faire des roulade dans l'herbe ;-) ou peut etre qu'elle a fait des cours lors de tournage de films indien dans nos alpes......hihihi.


Laurent had created something that I thought that it might not working at all and I have tried it. It is a wooden box with a small door and from that door the water should fall on the tree that Mrs President planted. It is such a small creation that made everybody smile:-). Anyone need this box for personal use, need to ask the right of the copyright.....hihihihi.

I hope my story from Delhi will beat all the journalist that has turned up at the embassy today.

Laurent a cree quelque chose que je ne pensait pas que ca fonctionnerait et j'ai quand meme pu l'essaye. C'est une boite en bois avec une petite porte qui s'ouvre apres avoir coupe un ruban et l'eau qui se trouve dans le reservoir coule au pied de l'arbre que Madame Calmy-Rey a plante. C'est juste une petite creation mais avec ca tout le monde a pu rire :-). Si quelqu'un a besoin de cette invention, il doit demander l'accord de Laurent pour le coptright......hihihi.

J'espere que cette histoire de Delhi arrivera plus vite que celles des journalistes present aujourd'hui a l'ambassade.

Big kiss from NDH/Gros becs de NDH