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Published: November 24th 2017
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See differently that ONE sky
Roses are red , sky is blue
Every time I see , a similar u
For example , The sky is blue. is it? I mean is it only blue ?. I have seen so many colors of that one sky .I am quite sure its not same every time. Each one has given me separate feeling , sometimes a kick of energy , sometimes a deep thought , simply different colors with different emotions. And it is spontaneous too. I think that is why, It is very difficult to give an exact word to your thoughts but some times it is easy to express if you capture that thought of the moment , yes….sometimes a photograph works.
Bagan, Myanmar . Bagan was formerly known as 'Pagan' was the capital of the present day Myanmar (earlier known as Burma ). The historic place Bagan is still shinning with more than 10,000 Buddhist pagodas, temples and monasteries in the Myanmar map. All these pagodas , temples were constructed in Bagan between 11th and 13th century .
We reached Yangon on 22nd December 2016. We ,went to Bagan on very next day. Train connection
is available from yangon to Bagan but we took flight option to save time. The reviews I read about the train journey was not great but you can try . I think , trains are great to get mixed with the locals as well as , you can see so many parts of the country in one shot.
The day was 25th December 2016. I remember a heavenly sunrise over thousands of heritage temples at Bagan , Myanmar .Was it only heavenly? . NO. It was something more than that . That particular day , we booked a horse cart in early morning . Probably around 5:30 am we started .Me and my husband ;the horse cart driver and the horse ( mare , it is a female adult horse) . So, we all together started very early morning. The horse name was momo. She was beautifully dressed and very particular about few things. I can remember she stopped on the road , as there was garbage in front of her. Our driver had to clean the road for momo. But , I was happy, this is how momo can keep cleaning the city by the humans.
What
a morning that was . Cool breeze , momo ‘s rhythmic steps , the half moon in the sky with very few stars . Overall ,that was absolutely dreamy . When we reached at our destination , the place was full with tourists . some of them already started focusing their cameras because any time the SUN may visit. But it was a long wait for us. Around 6 : 40 the sun rises that day. Yes I can not forget the heavenly sight.
As on 2016 December , the heritage temples were more than 1000 years old. Standing at one of the top roofs of a temple ,I can visualize , thousands of monks chanting and walking through that magical land . I can imagine , elite families are coming one by one in their decorated horse carts towards the temple area. The color of sky was mixed with leftover moonlight , the very fresh rays of sun , the fog over our heads , the flashes of camera. Hot air balloons started flying over the heritage temples of Bagan .We just can not forget that sight , that heavenly sky in our lifetime .Even our eye lashes
were still for some time.
I define this heavenly sky as a morning sky that make you realize your inner enlightenment
When the nature blends with sky , You will have another side of that same sky. November 2016. My husband got few off days luckily and suddenly . I was just back after my solo trip from Singapore and Indonesia . So we had no plan that time. It was hard to spend such precious holidays in a lazy way .Generally we do not get plenty of time and if we get ,losing like this was just indigestible. So , in a night of mid November we made a trip plan to Guilin China. We had no idea , that it was going to be our best trip so far. I heard so many times , unplanned things are the best. And we experienced the same during our Guilin trip .As we were staying in Hong Kong that time , and having one unused visa entry we made that plan overnight and started late morning. We had idea about route , and it was MTR from Hong Kong to shenzhen (China ) and from shenzhen to Guilin
via bullet train. We had no pre booked tickets , so we bought our tickets from each station for every break journey . And around night 10 , we reached our destination. I can remember very clearly , we got a chilled welcome and we were not completely ready for that. So backpackers , we must have an important item in our checklist , that is checking weather of destination.
During our visit to Guilin , we came to know , bamboo rafting through Li river. So we did. And it was absolutely mesmerizing . The pier is located far from the city. It took around 2 hrs to reach the pier. And journey was about to start. A bright sunny morning . I felt , so strong inside. We shared our bamboo raft with another two tourists from Poland . After greeting each other we started. I bet , You can not take your eyes off from banks , krasts .it seems the nature is just one . the river , the sky , the krasts everything just blended into one . just it is another different shade of that one color blue.
To be continued............
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