Get Set Go

recently i got a 'lonely planet' book... i remember the days when i used to stand inside the Landmark (book store at Forum Mall) for hours and hours and turning out the pages of lonely planet books and going inside the deepest of those descriptions... i used to feel being in those places... i could see a whole new unseen world in front of me.... i used to travel across the globe though lonely planet...

... whenever i travel i used to look at those foreigner travelers with a lonely planet book in their hand searching for something interesting... i call them 'lonely planeter' ...

now i got a lonely planet of my own... recently i won the second prize in an online photo competition organized by lonely planet... i got a book on my own country India from lonely planet... thanks to Mark who arranges this competition...
... now i have the book, the planner, the guide ... everything is set... everything is ready... it is now time to hit the road again... and 'therefore i travel' ...

intense

this is what i would like call as 'intense look'...
... nandi hills is famous for a typical day out amongst bangaloreans... just 50km off the road... bhogi nandiswara temple is one of the stop on the way to nandi hills...
one certain morning while roaming inside temple i found this man... he was so kind to me and did not mind to be photographed... i always like to find such gems in my memoirs...

insomnia

i will have some guests next week in my home... they are all coming from my home town... a place 2500 km far away from bangalore...a long long journey for 48 hours by train... bangalore- guawahati express...this train runs through westbengal from assam and then takes the east coastal road through out orissa, andrapradesh,tamilnadu and finally reaches Bangalore...last december i went home and traveled by train...while traveling by train i always prefer to travel by sleeper class...but when you go for such a long journey and need to stay for 48 hours in the compartment,a/c compartment will give you a little comfort for your journey... but there is always a disappointment...in this a/c compartment, you can't see much of outside landscapes but the faces of your other co-passengers...

... i remember, it was a truly boring journey for me, last time i traveled... i took some photographs that time... the one i uploaded here is from that journey...the person in the foreground had not slept previous night...he was traveling to assam... he learned that there were some kind of riots in assam by ULFA... some of the bihari people were already evacuated from the land of assam... he was quite worried about it...i saw him talking over his mobile phone every hour...

...on the other hand this little boy was so spontaneous, always doing something very important !!! his mother was tired atlast...

those were the 40 hours of my insomnia...