Muktheshwar – A Place with a View
All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other. Only the…
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Glimpse of Himalayas 1 — Trip to Shoja in Himachal Pradesh
“Finally, when we reached our destination it was pitch dark, cold and the only sound that we heard were the incessant bark of village dogs”
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Deep-winter Trek to Mt. Kedarkantha
From far, we might resemble a black sinuous snake creeping on the white snows of Mt. Kedarkantha. A few meters from the peak, the sun breaks out of the Gangothri ranges painting the climbers face with morning light. Exhaustion and fear gives way to relief and when you sit down on the slabs of rocks that form the summit there’s even elation. We have done it! We have scaled a peak!
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A Small Slice of Athens
The view of Athens from here is quite splendid. An immediate circle of red-tiled roofs gives way to more modern structures spread all around. Mt. Lycabettus sticks out of this jumble glowing under a slant of sunlight that has lanced through a cloudy sky.
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