Life is indeed a Miracle.

Borra Caves, near Vizag

This is now turning into a photo blog, I guess. Had been to Vizag for one my colleague's marriage and had gone on a tour of the nearby tourist spots-Borra caves, which was my first real cave (fictional ones being a lot in three investigators/tom sawyer-huck finn from my childhood). It turned out to be a bit of an anticlimax - the cave smelled of bat droppings, and was stuffy and sweaty. There was a lot of water dripping about and there were quite a few spectacular stalactites and stalacmites. This view was definitely worth the sweaty two hours which we spent inside the caves.

There was a Shiva temple, deep inside and high up in the cave. The experience of walking up(rather down) a spindly staircase on thin air was a bit unnerving. The caves did provide a lot of opportunities for me try my low light photography - what I really missed was a tripod(was always running around trying to find props for the camera). Andhra Toursim has definitely done a good job in illuminating the interiors, but it does look a bit unnatural at places.

Some bit of info about the opening you are seeing: the caves were discovered accidentally by a tribal cowherd when one of his cows fell down the opening into the cave. The British, who had been busy building a railroad on top of the cave, investigated the case of the missing cow, surveyed and documented the caves. The actual railroad is still in use above the caves.I would be scared to go on it -its so hollow inside and still things are all fine...Life is indeed a Miracle.

One from my collection

A Rose in our garden

This is one of my first Macro Experiments..which came out pretty decent(I hope).

Feeling like...

'Feel Like God' - goes the tagline. Even though I had decided long before seeing the ad, the ad did make me feel good. Yes - all ye faithful readers of blog, I am the owner of a Bajaj Avenger, my first Motorbike, and a cruiser. All gleaming chrome and contrasting black, the vehicle would be my steed for quite some time, I believe.

None of the people I know, believed me when I said that I am going to buy Avenger. Not even my parents, my colleagues and my friends. It finally happened today and I have ridden close to 70 km on the first day.

The bike feels solid and stable. It does attract some attention when going on the road, but alas! only from men.. When going on the road, a guy riding a HeroHonda splendor slows up to me (you see, for the first 1000 km, you are advised to ride the bike at 40-45 kmph, and me being the safety guy, was 'cruising' along and 39.66 kmph) and asks, 'Kitna mileage deta hai bhai?'. I replied that I am coming back just after the taking the vehicle and I am yet to test its mileage. Then the guys goes on and I am joined by a couple on a Fiero and the guy asks about the on road price which I faithfully answer. The funniest thing was when the priest at the temple (around 18-19 years of age), asks me about the technical specs of the bike before doing the pooja for the bike.

Will post a picture of it soon...meanwhile feast your eyes on the website at: Avenger(warning: heavy flash loaded website - for the lean browsers checkout Hindu - Having some photos and a nice review.)