Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Neighbourhood


Yearning for natural beauty, some wild life, and enjoying nature, we plan a long trip with its inevitable planning, bookings, transport, companions and so on. And then there are times when, unable to travel due to exigencies of life, we open our mind and senses to our immediate surrounding to find it all right there, around our homes. I've often used this free and readily available option to capture a few precious moments and take my mind off all worldly stress. This thread is for posting a few such moments that saw flowers, birds, and nature in general.

Vishakhapatnam: A beauty by the sea













Been a long time since my last post, largely due to lack of any new photos and trips. Then came a chance to visit Vishakhapatnam in circumstances that won't ordinarily be conducive to any leisure photography, but true to character I carried my camera; just in case! And I was rewarded by some fabulous views from air as well as on ground.
En route, the Hyderabad airport was a beautiful sight as well as great place to while away a few hours waiting for the connecting flight. God bless the much delayed but finally achieved modernisation of a few of our airports.
Vishakhapatnam, on the eastern coast of India, is a city nestled between rolling hills and the Bay of Bengal. It's a huge natural port, one of the busiest in India, has a steel plant, naval dockyard, naval base and to my astonishment, a series of good quality hospitals activley engaged in domestic medical tourism with patients coming from a radius of nearly five hundred kilometres from different states. There is a long marine drive where locals throng in large numbers in the evening, a beautiful hill top park and a host of sights to see within an hour's drive.

Hope to visit it again, at leisure, in cooler months.