Nature at its Best

Have you ever faced a situation when you just want to make the most of the time u have at hand knowing its not going to last too long. Your stuck in a time frame where your want to live life to its best, is much like a dream of past events and that magic ball that gives you an insight to a fantasy world future. But when you wake up kaboom it that load of stereotypes of being a girl, those responsibilities, deadlines and routine life your just squished under. Like that doesn’t serve as enough of walls to claustrophobe you, your suppressed under company and dingy mood swings of those around you. You suffocate and just want to break through into the mountains or some scenic beauty living life far from the hustle and bustle enjoying life in the simplest way it can be.

So I let off and true to my impulsive nature travel with those of my kind who enjoy such break troughs. We headed to Chikmaglur about 6hours from Bangalore and I was awe struck right from the beginning! Traveling through mountains to our tree house at the Hoskonde estate about 1000 feet above sea level amidst trees and wildlife with a breathtaking view of the world in its primitive form of pure and innocent scenic beauty "nature at its best".

We lived in a tree house (built around I guess an oak tree) out of bamboo and thatched leaves for the roof, not those sophisticated ones driven by art and technology but those naturally simple the way its meant to be yet providing amenities of today. It wasn’t just a break but I actually educated myself while we went on a plantation walk into acres of the estate forest.

A moment I truly enjoyed and have captured in my mind is that when we were down at a lake surrounded on all sides by mountains that held a dense forest, drenched in rain that cooled the place. I stood there in the rain amidst sweet smelling fragrance of wet earth looking at the fishes in the lake, the vibrant and colorful birds flying by, the dark clouds that covered the mountain peaks and a silence that still echoed the sounds of nature. How peaceful that experience seemed to be. It was like one of those times u feel your mind body and soul are finally in tune with one another and the only thought that strikes your mind is how free you are.

But I must admit the scarily fun experience of a true adventure was when we were stuck in a tree house surrounded by acres of forest and wildlife with no signs of civilization. Up in the mountains in pitch darkness while nature showing us its harsh side of roaring thunder and lightening and a downpour of heavy monstrous rain that seeped though the thatched roof – all this without food, electricity and a temperature that froze us.

Its amazing how I was taken aback by how simple and beautiful surroundings can be and how naive we are to it, just rushing our energies in materialistic things, manipulating and judging situations and others and being judged ourselves on theories of a rich mans way of life that people have accepted and follow like blind mice. At the end of the day it doesn’t even matter you just one of them back to your routine flowing with the pace of people around you blindly accepting what's thrown at you.