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.