South India

If you have read my previous post then you know about my trip to the Andaman. But that wasn’t the end of our trip. We were now headed to the beautiful Mysore. Landing in Bangalore had brought a strange relief to me – my mobile and internet connection.

Next day early morning we started off for Mysore and by the afternoon were standing in the beautiful garden of the Mysore Palace. The architecture was stunning here.

 

We still had a long time to pass after visiting the palace so we made our way to a zoo.   loved the giraffe! it was really so tall…

Now it was time for us to go to the Brindavan Garden.  The garden was adorned  not just with beautiful flowers but with beautiful fountains too. Even before I had hardly taken in so much  the evening fountain show started…

 

After enjoying the warm ocean and splendor of human architecture, we headed for the cool Nilgiri Hills. It was almost a five hour journey before we reached Ooty

Ooty, a hill station situated at an altitude of 7,350ft, is a marvelous place with almost everything one would like to see. It is said that Ooty is famous for its lake but I would rather praise it for its gardens and tea gardens. Beautiful they are.

 

Some gardens there were really lonely

We had a great window view of the toy trains and the hills too

The Beautiful Andaman

Now it must be almost two years… or maybe three years back when I took a break from my monotonous life to chill out in the beaches of Goa. What actually captured my mind was the extra green surroundings and the mad sea. It was beautiful to see the dark sea hit the rocks with all force while feeling the rain. It was nature at its best I thought. The roaring seas, lush green surroundings and a small beautiful waterfall – things can’t get better. (check my post “a rainy paradox”).

Little had I known that the best was yet to come in my life. Last month we took another break from our lives. I was skeptical about the trip as I did not really think it was worth travelling so far just to visit a small group of islands at the juncture of Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean. But my father was adamant about visiting the island territory so we packed our bags.

The nearly isolated island fascinated me almost instantly. The pristine sea beaches and serene greenery must have been a replica of the paradise itself. Each island had its own charm and was different from the other.

Viper island was wild

 

 

while Havelock was beautiful and untouched

 

and  the picturesque Chidiya Tapu at Port Blair was serene and specially more charming during the sunset time.

 

And yes I forgot to mention, it was also my first journey in a cruise! The 57km journey from Port Blair to Havelock was a memorable one.

 

 

 

It was nice… take a further look into some pictures taken from the ship when we halted very shortly in some Neil Island

 

Well if you are a shopaholic you might not find this post very interesting. Due to less population you won’t get many decent shops but you do get good coral material there

 

However we did have connectivity problems. We were completely cut off from the world without mobile connection but that is another story .