Every so often, I like to go to the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture.: March 2010

I agree with the Italian poet Cesare on what he said on travel--“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

Last month was sort of maddening for me since I had to travel to 5 different states and but it sure was an eye opener ;].

First up it was to the 'Gateway to the South India' , Chennai to attend a marriage, we got to see the second longest beach in the world,Marina Beach [Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro is the longest].
Mode of transport--A bumpy Volvo bus and the return journey via the Mysore express.The auto guys took us for a nice ride ;] the amount we spent on the autoricks were double the cost of the train tickets ;].
I loved Elliot's Beach which is one of the cleanest beaches in the city of Chennai.Ofcourse by the time I was back, i was speaking in fluent Tamil apart from the lines ' Naan oru thadavai sonna nooru thadavai sonna madhiri’ ;]
The roads are horrible.

PS; Pothys is HUGE.

A week later I was in God's own country ,Kerala,did you know that it was selected by the National Geographic Traveller as one of the 50 destinations of a lifetime.

Mode of transport - Toyota Qualis

First stop Guruvayur , the lord Krishna temple. We saw an elephant being transported on a Lorry. The driver had a tough time controlling the vehicle. The roads were awesome but we had to pay a lot of toll charges for using the highways.Sabarimala was divine and it tested our climbing, chanting skills. Ofcourse our patience was tested every minute of the way.

Next up Delhi . I had to attend an exhibition and it was a short trip so I decided to make the most of it.It was a hectic 2 days and our Cab driver tried to outsmart us :) by taking us around the India Gate 7 times. Yep we saw it from 7 different angles and 2 different lights, sunlight and tubelight.

The only thing that I liked was the paratha's and Lassi , yummmmmmy mummmy . The drive to Agra to catch the Taj was like participating in the Amazing Race. In 2 days I had travelled in an aeroplane ( with a squeaky left wing), a Xylo, an Indica, a Sumo, the Metro, a cycle cart and the new vehicle Magic.Unfortunately we did not get to see the front view of the Taj but we did get to see its not so famous side view. It looked B E A utiful.Ofcourse I missed my flight and had to catch another :) which meant that I had to stay for 8 hours at the Indira Gandhi Airport :)

After reaching Bangalore, I was off to the Western Ghats to the small town of Madikeri via Mysore.