Puri and Chilka – The Duo This Time

Tour De Puri- sounds awkward. Isn’t it? For me this is going to be the second attempt to touch down my feet on the windy sea-shore. The magical surges bustling with foamy bubbles are calling me from the core of their historical origin. And I am waiting to get my responsive organs stunned with the eternal beauty of Jagannath Dham (Holy God Jagannath). I squeezed my forehead and eyes couple of times before deciding to make it to this eastern coastal part of India. The reason is I had been to Puri quite a few times before and got to see enough snaps of the place from my friends and relatives. But anyway I  didn’t cover Chilka (A brackish water Lagoon) last time. So it won’t be a bad idea or unjustified to visit the same venue as Chilka to me is like a cherry on the top of an ice cream.

Going there it would be 3 days itinerary and I am going to surf Puri temple on the Day 1, Chilka on the Day 2 and Local sightseeing on the 3rd and returning day. It’s a short trip but would look for maximum adventure and tireless travel. The objective is to make a quick pack up within scheduled hours and cherish every moments there.

I had done it earlier too for Digha, North Sikkim where time constraint was the challenge for me to fight with. The only difference is- my wife (The best gift a man can have) would join me this time. Hardly 20 days remaining. Will keep you updated once back from the tour.

Another Day Under the Sun

Smiling breeze on the sea-shore or  a dense forest at the elevation of 10,000 feet – What thrills you more? Well, once again I am shivering with the thought that I  took my heels to an exotic destination. This journey  I am talking  here is much different from the ones I had earlier. I am not bothered about taking scintillating snaps of nature or something that has stand-still features. Even I am not that interested  roaming around  favourite tourist spots.Natural beauty does not attract me much as the real reel of life.

The whole idea is to meet and interact with as many heads from those tourist destinations as I can. I want to know the native people who have been residing there over the years. Thus the survey sample for me is countless. I want to unearth the experiences those gloomy faces have in their regular life. To cut it short I would focus only on the responses collected from those unprivileged.

I want to ask them:

1. Do you feel lucky for inhabiting at such a wonderful place?

2. How do you greet unknown tourists ?

3. You get to see so many new faces everyday. Does it interest  you?

4. How do you like us to treat you? Or how do you like to respond us?

5. The arrival of people from different part of the earth nurtured with different culture, language, habit, behaviour altogether. How do you react to those unfamiliar voices?

6. What you like in us and expect more ?

7. Does tourist’s lifestyle make any difference to your way of living?

I would make a note of all these information and place their stories in my photographic album. To my belief, these stories would portray the real faces only. However the tastes are  more  diversified. It's the travelling of my mind more than my feet. Let me clarify, I am not a journalist or making any serious survey to publish any report. It’s sheer my interest and nothing else.  I want you to make it live within yourself too. Can  you cultivate the same thoughts as I do.