Back to being a teenager
In precisely 2 days time i will go back to being a teenager. No wondering where i will be having my next meal. No laundry to do myself. No haggling with the maid to get menial jobs done. No status reports to the manager. All i have to go is sit in a room, watch tv, keep coming up with gourmet requests and bask in my parents affection. Absolute bliss if you ask me! Obviously somethings will have to be sacrificed for the same like booze and late night roundezvous for a few days,but what the heck, that aint too big a price to pay for a holiday in the real sense of the word.By the way, for the uninitiated, it means that i will be going home. And home is in Delhi. And Delhi is *the* city to be in during the Diwali season. Its almost as if you can sense it in the atmosphere, that the festival is approaching. And to add to it my parents and i have also planned a nice vacation to this place called Binsar which is a located in the foothills of the Himalayas in the Kumaon region of Uttaranchal. Its an idyllic vacation spot with no tourists to speak off, only a well preserved nature park to boast off, which houses quite a few leopards, panthers and is supposed to be a bird watchers haven. I will be staying in one of those bhoot-bangla type government guest house with only the chowkidar to keep us company and regale us with his stories. This place apparently has no direct electricity connection and subsists only on a generator which is switched off at 7pm everyday. The rest house is located on the edge of a lake which is the only watering hole in miles, so hopefully i should be able to see quite a bit of wildlife. Also the Himalayas will be just an arm's distance away so i hope to keep my camera quite busy. Going with my parents means that i will be pretty much left on my own which is a wonderful thing if you're in the midst of such natural beauty. Man i can hardly wait to get on my jet plane!!
Current Music : Atreyu - Bleeding Mascara
PS. If you want more info on Binsar, try this link
http://travels.ndtv.com/xtopspot.asp?topspot=Binsar&id=21
Outlook Traveller had a very nice article on places to stay in while you're in the Kumaon region of Uttranchal which is here . Makes for a very nice read.
posted by Nitish @ 2:32 AM
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