jungle camps...!!!

I recently that is like the end of December got to experience a Jungle camp at Delawadi near Bhopal. That doesn't mean I went hunting for tigers but the very ambiance there the birds singing, monkeys making those noises, the some kind of unidentifiable sounds were noteworthy. I have always been a girl who was attracted to nature and solace. So I really enjoyed. I went there with My mum dad and his school friends. So technically I was the only kid there, If you agree calling me a kid.




It started with a ride In my favorite scorpio , on a highway, through a village and then amongst the forest and mountains. The best part of the place was how it was developed into a camp. I really loved those old huge trees around, and those semi rotten net like leaves. I got to see a well. And going into the forest, the noise your shoes make on stepping over on leaves. And they even had shown me an old banyan tree, and described how that that also grown old.

Monkeys and there whole small and happy family traversing across the trees. Guess what It did remind me of Edward and twilight, not that I am comparing Edward with monkey just the whole jungle thing. N the best part No network No phone calls., what peace.
Well the trip was small but sitting and chit chatting, listening to elderly experiences, seeing 55 year olds behaving like kids, where one even tried to climb a tree. Forgetting everything and enjoying whats in and around. The pics say a lot, so I'll shut my mouth and end my post here. But will say a must have experience.

Chukkk chukk rail gaadi...

Weird tittle naa....but it says...what I am writing about. 4 yrs in hostel..n so many train journeys. Its like it has become an integral part of life. 4 years and countless journeys and every time something special and at times weird also. Good and bad all type of encounters but all end as an experience. Will just include some evident ones...

My 1st experience of traveling alone. The first time I was going home after coming here in Noida. Wow it felt great. How much I had missed home in that span of 20 days. I had a bunch of friends and a crazy seniour. Our train was delayed and reached at 11 at night at nzm. Humid filled travel, thrist, but it alll went unnoticed with that excitement of going home. N when finally I saw mum dad...n that smile on their face. After that many times...same 700 kms route from Nizzamudin to Bhopal. Many trains and many people.
But before it get too engrossed in telling my own experiences It would like to say something for IRCTC and Indian railways. Its undoubtedly worlds largest and most convenient. It is actually connecting people happily and at very low sum. Lalu jii...and now Mumta jii smile on that..:)
Yaa coming back to me. You know I have even played guitar, sorry just listened, couldn't play because of my long nails. And also chit chatted all night. It once happened when I was travelling with my childhood friend and we chatted the whole night, slept at 3. I was in the middle berth and the person on lower was planning to throw me off the berth in the morning, Uncles..huhhh...
You the best part is when you are at the station and you see Bhopal express, waiting for you. And you know the journey has begun. N yaa getting down at some station and sipping into "Chaii" and kurkure. The chills that you feel traveling in the sleeper, the rain drops that touch your face and leave a smile. The night outside and specially the moon that enlightens the chambal ranges, the morning sunshine that mesmerizes you by its beauty complied with nature. N the feeling of finally reaching home and seeing your loved ones at the station. But you know its totally the other way when you return back. Specially in the first two years of college. Then you see no moon...no nature. All you feel is some kind of heaviness that you have to go back. At times tears also roll down. Now you are happy and sad both ways. But then 2 years from today.

And yes my blog is incomplete without mentioning "n" no of times I have traveled with waiting, shared berth with a friend, sat the whole 12 hours, and yes faced a train accident, minor one, still accident is an accident. N people specially guys that I have flirted with or who have flirted with me, because you just need some entertainment. I have grown up I now travel with a confirm AC ticket but trust me the fun of traveling is in sleeper class and when its like inoculated with people. U see India, many people many experiences.