just to chronicle in the past one week i have,
* travelled across almost all the hill resorts in and around tamil nadu.
* lazed around in peper farms at a kilometer above sea level.
* went boating on a lake that was 'just' sixty feet deep.
* went white water rafting at hogenakal.
* went trekking on a half feet wide path that descended for 3 Kms at an almost 90 degree gradient without any climbing gear and with bare feet.
* went crawling into a cave 60 feet deep that would have either let a monkey walk through or a human crawl through in all fours again with a bare foot.
* had bathe in a virgin water fall that fell from a height of 300 feet along with a couple of deers and one very inquisitive snake.
* in the second part of the week starting friday i returned checked mails and then turned all devotional and went to a place near pondy.
* my week ended boating in marshlands full of herons, oysters, and snake living in an ever growing cluster of burgeoning mangroves.
Just realized that throughout this week i have travelled over 3000 kms. Of which atleast 600 were in ghat roads. I have been through atleast 70 hairpin bends and innumerable spirals. I have driven through atleast 400 kms of seaside roads and in the entirety the only thing that strikes my mind is this anecdote :
I was on top of one of the many pristine peaks of the sevarayan range about 2 kms above ground level. I was all elated with the "i am on top of the whole world" feeling. Just then i saw above me a pariah kite gliding and lazily diving in nonchalance.
there are somethings that are always above you. no matter how high a mountain you scale you will always realize that nature still ends up remaining a tad bit higher than your maximum reach. that moment of solemnity can seldom be matched to any thing else.
OR MAY BE IT CAN BE :
TRY THIS.
P.S This was a long and nice post ...but bleddy scribefire screwed up again and resulted in this abridged version.
Technorati Tags: yercaud, yelagiri, hogenakal, pody, boating, trekking, lying
* travelled across almost all the hill resorts in and around tamil nadu.
* lazed around in peper farms at a kilometer above sea level.
* went boating on a lake that was 'just' sixty feet deep.
* went white water rafting at hogenakal.
* went trekking on a half feet wide path that descended for 3 Kms at an almost 90 degree gradient without any climbing gear and with bare feet.
* went crawling into a cave 60 feet deep that would have either let a monkey walk through or a human crawl through in all fours again with a bare foot.
* had bathe in a virgin water fall that fell from a height of 300 feet along with a couple of deers and one very inquisitive snake.
* in the second part of the week starting friday i returned checked mails and then turned all devotional and went to a place near pondy.
* my week ended boating in marshlands full of herons, oysters, and snake living in an ever growing cluster of burgeoning mangroves.
Just realized that throughout this week i have travelled over 3000 kms. Of which atleast 600 were in ghat roads. I have been through atleast 70 hairpin bends and innumerable spirals. I have driven through atleast 400 kms of seaside roads and in the entirety the only thing that strikes my mind is this anecdote :
I was on top of one of the many pristine peaks of the sevarayan range about 2 kms above ground level. I was all elated with the "i am on top of the whole world" feeling. Just then i saw above me a pariah kite gliding and lazily diving in nonchalance.
there are somethings that are always above you. no matter how high a mountain you scale you will always realize that nature still ends up remaining a tad bit higher than your maximum reach. that moment of solemnity can seldom be matched to any thing else.
OR MAY BE IT CAN BE :
TRY THIS.
P.S This was a long and nice post ...but bleddy scribefire screwed up again and resulted in this abridged version.
Technorati Tags: yercaud, yelagiri, hogenakal, pody, boating, trekking, lying