NATURE BECKONS
Background
Drab ppts, zigzag sales graphs, collection pressure, project deadlines, commuting in the Metro, rising inflation, stock market crashes, an ever increasing collection of junk cable TV channels… Sound familiar?
We don’t have the solution to this nor do we offer a 4-minute nirvana course. We also don’t know the 8 quick steps to salvation.
These are realities of a crazed city and no one can avoid it. Not even us!
Yet, we know certain things; that as you travel 10 km further from Panvel on the Goa highway, the temperature drops suddenly; climbing the Maholi peak early morning leaves you with better lungs and heart; star gazing in the middle of the night atop Harischandraghad can be an unparalleled experience; a coin tossed from the top of Vasota peak at Babukhada can swish right back at you because of the wind pressure rushing up the valley like a hurricane….
That it took 22 years for the Sidhis to build the Janjira fort, the only one which Shivaji could never conquer; Daulatabad fort changed hands between 7 dynasties in its 800 year old history; there could be even more forts yet to be unearthed in Maharashtra; ‘Creole’ is a variation of Portuguese language spoken in the world only by a small community (of less than 400 people) in the fishing village of Koralai near Alibaug, 'Ladakh' is "the coldest desert in the world and also has hightest motorable road in the world, highest saltwater lake in the world, least populated district in India in terms of density and is a land like no other", Bhutan is rated hightest in Asia as 'The Land of Gross National Happiness' ……..
...Welcome to Nature Knights!!
