just wandering on the hills..

another view of the valley behind his house. the place with rolling grasslands is a haven for campers. i couldn't think of a more perfect place to set up a camp...

we explored neel kumar's backyard in the evening. we were so glad that neel kumar's kids and their cousins showed us how they spend their holidays here. they run down to the stream to take a dip... have hot akki rotis for breakfast, climb hills all day, pluck wild gooseberries, herd the cattle back to the shed in the evening... i was so happy they shared a day of theirs with me...

this is what it looked like when i lay down under the cool trees at shaale mane. we proceeded to neel kumar's house after a while.

shaale mane, our first day's destination. we reached here at around mid afternoon. although we did go to dabbe gowdru's house we hadn't come planned to get down to the dabbe falls. i had a nice chat with the dabbe gowdru's son. dabbe gowdru is no more by the way. it was almost a month since he had passed away.

a picture after a long long time. i wasn't in the right frame of mind to do any of this.
ok, this one was shot on my last trek to the kanoor fort. i wanted to start posting pics from the start to the end of the trek. so this one was the very first sight of green landscape that captivated my friend and i. Shyam was on his very first trek; he said he wanted to do one these treks before he finishes his intership and gets back to his home town in andhra . so we started as only the two of us trodding this beautiful land...

am leaving for kanoor again. will be very similar to last september... i deeply hope that i reach one particular place that remains in my memory. its the jungle path that merged with the flowing stream, it was nothing short of a pure blissful experience.

budangiri

Jamalabad

sun and straw, jamalabad