Corner with a Full View

because sometimes or many times depending upon how hard you work on it, your dreams do come true. So here I am listing the places, that  I dream of going, and that I have to absolutely go before I leave Earth and enter HEAVEN. i. Makalu Barun Valley: This photographer 's photos of this valley made me loose my head, the first time I came across them. Now the more I know about this place, the more I wanna go. The story in Steve Razetti's website goes like this : MAKALU BARUN "I felt it was the most beautiful valley I had ever seen...As we sheltered under an overhanging rock one of our senior and highly respected Sherpas told us a story. Dawa Tenzing had never been in the Barun valley before, but Sherpa mythology told of its existence. The valley contained an invisible village - a Shangri-La - where the gods lived and holy men came to die. It was a place of great beauty, as we had seen, and people lived there forever. I asked Dawa Tenzing if he hoped some day to end...

I see a vine; tiny white flowers laden in it, that twists around an old arch. This is the entrance to a beautiful house, a house where I do not live. A house which I pass across sometimes in my random jaywalk when I do not know where I want to go or what I am doing here.

Why can some people walk the straight line of life all along, be dutiful, punctual, complete the task on time, always follow the routine (not necessarily the ones that they set) and always follow the rule of life to the dot? And why some people (like me) always are going tangent, despite their sincere interest to walk the straight line (sometimes)? Why is it so hard to do the things that you are supposed to do? And why, once the thing becomes "its not your job", do we have such fascinations to do that very thing?

Girlhood is brief Summer is brief Life is brief....

When you have only two cents left in the world;  buy a bread with one and a lily with another" Chinese proverb It was a long time ago, many years ago, that I had come across this proverb. Then, I was a wide eyed curious teenager ready to believe anything that came my way. This utopian proverb fascinated me so much I copied it down onto my diary.

( Just wanna check out photos?Scroll down to bottom n find my album's link in photobucket) Zigzagging through Nepal-India; alternating between Nepali Rupees and Indian; sweat drenching 90 degree uphill treks; bone chilling icy wind; Chauri Goth as top class hotels; loosing your way in snow clad Rhododendron forest ; loosing sense in snow white beauty of a pristine landscape- experience this all in an offseason visit of Sandakpur in Ilam district during winter!  The colors may not be as spring-vivid or the mountains not as autumn-clear, but you will witness something else entirely. A live size cake of nature complete with gingerbread house, trees with snow icings all over. A different vista of nature, that you will never witness if you do not dare to step out from traditional "right season" tourism. Our journey started from Dharan where an early morning bus took us to Pashupatinagar. You can also fly to Bhadrapur airport, and then drive there. Since it’s a wint...

So I have completely missed the purpose of having created this blog and its turning out to be more impersonal re-runs of my travels..more like a travel log..but what the...as long as I'm writing and actually publishing something. Feels like I am suffering from a writer's block...if i intentionally sit down to write something original...I just sit and do nothing. So recalling my travels are a lot easier. Just writing down where I went and how.