Living in the moment
How beautiful the oceans and seas make our planet look from above. The first time I had flown over the Bay of Bengal which is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, I was stunned to look down at the cool blue expanse dotted with islands. Here’s a tiny video clip of what I saw…
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Tea, Chai, Cha – Happy International Tea Day! Chai – a special beverage that (almost) every Indian is fond of. Black tea, white tea, red tea, green tea, chamomile, jasmine, matcha, are just some of the varieties of teas popular around the world.
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There’s something beautiful about dainty things, like the delicate and lovely wildflowers. Freedom, peace, beauty and a riot of colours.
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Waking up at 3am to start for Gurudongmar lake, traveling on the bad roads and braving the cold is totally worth the effort.
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The passages/gaps or cave-like structures around the towering limestone walls in the Phang Nga bay are called ‘hongs’ (meaning ‘rooms’ in Thai) and are best explored on kayaks and glass-bottom boats.
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A little poem on why should we travel
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Travel pictures from Majuli – the river island on Brahmaputra in Assam.
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Celebrating the International Mountain Day by learning and updating myself with a bit more about them. This year’s theme for the Mountain Day is Mountain Biodiversity. If you too are interested to know/learn more, check this piece on UN page
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Though at first I thought of walking from Harshil to Mukhba village – the winter abode of Ganga ji from the shrine at Gangotri, I didn’t. The tiny village of Mukhba is about 3ish km from Harshil – the charming Himalayan valley by the banks of Bhagirathi.
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The clouds tired of raining, drift leisurely across the mountains, into the sky
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Let’s sit on a hilltop Gaze down at the blue lake
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”― Albert Camus Such pretty season autumn is, too bad that we don’t experience it as much here in India except for the Himalayan regions up north. I remember traveling to those places (Ah! the good old days when we could travel to our heart’s content!)…
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