All heavens are
on earth. This could be first and foremost gratitude for anybody to
feel that we are living on this incredibly beautiful planet, where
every place is unmatched to other. Everything is so amazing that can astonish
you in every single moment of your life. I love traveling not just because this
is cool to say but because I am a curious guy. I always want something new.
When I go to new places interact with new people and see new things it makes me
feel content. That's what exactly happened probably a week ago.
My New Job offers
me to travel different cities. I have been shuttling between 5 cities of Madhya
Pradesh and Chattishgarh. These are Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Satna and Raipur.
I never knew that these cities have so much to explore. I interacted with few of
my friends and must mention their name Parvez, Radhika and Gaurav about these
cities. Everybody said naturally these places are very beautiful. Parvez
asked me to keep one day unoccupied so that both of us could explore Jabalpur.
Believe me, I never expected so much. It was on 23rd march 2013 best
day in this year so far. We were at Madan Mahal and we had to explore two
different and amazing places one was World Famous "Balance Rock" and
second "Narmada River" at Bhedaghat.
In
the morning woke up at around 11:30 and had tea along with Parvez and his
friend Kaushik at a tapri. Frankly speaking I did not brush my
teeth neither taken shower I had left with Parvez. When I saw this Balance rock
I could not believe in my eyes and astonished I thought, there must be some
trick involved. But when I climbed up when touched it saw it then realized that
how amazing this Balance Rock is. I had never seen something as amazing as like
this before. Some people gave their scientific thought on this that it could be
because of "center of gravity or mass." whatever the reason could be
but I liked to so much. It was very unusual and different. I must say.
We came back and had our lunch and got ready for "Bhedaghat". I
am not sure how to explain the beauty of this divine river Narmada.
"Bhedaghat" is basically range of small hills and Narmada flows in
between these hills. This place witnessed few shooting of Bollywood movies, and
most popular one is Ashoka. They emphasize saying this is where Karina Kapoor performed her dance. It is so divine and peaceful. Then we went to "Nauka
Vihar". and enjoyed a ride on boat. There was a host in the boat who
did not let the travelers get bored. He was genuinely very interested to make
us laugh a make us have a great time in the boat. Hospitality in most of the
places is been done in order to have more business but this was really genuine
and obviously he was not doing it to make some tips.
We started from Nauka vihar and went up to "Bandar Kundani". "Bander
Kundani" It is nothing but two very high vertical hills and
Narmada flows in between. This used to be so close that Monkeys could jump from
one hill to another. But now the water flow of the river has collapsed the some
part of the hill and it widen up. These all boats are traditional boats with
two guys driving it manually with “chappu”. I admire that and
good to see there are no machines otherwise this place would have lost its
intrinsic beauty. Motor Boats would have polluted the noise, air and water
too. Nauka Vihar is closed from 15th June till 15th Oct, due
to monsoon.
And the image is
of a craft man nourishing our heritage and also earning his livelihood.
