Sunday 10 June 2007

paradise on earth...

aboard an ATR (a rickety airplane, literally an auto rickshaw of the air) took me to paradise, a place called agartala...

people who say that kerala is green have got to come to the northeast, while fly over bangladesh and entering agartala i caught sight of a place that looks like the visuals of thee amazong rainforest you get on national geographic, there's been some rain and the whole place is flooded to some extent, and the greenery is absolutely stupendous...

i thought ill just put a bracket quote on the ATR but i think it deserves a bit more... the ATR is like the autorickshaw of the air... you feel every bump on the road (in this case air turbulance packets, the first time i felt it properly and its a bit like a roller coaster, suddenly you experience wightlessness and bumps all along - its brilliant ) and it takes all the skills of a superpilot to maneuvre this thing through the odd weather.... and it flies real low - lets you have a great view of the land below, which in this case was briliiantly beautiful....

and btw, agartala airport showed signals from a variety of operators (including grameen phone and a host of other unrecognised names - i guess they must be bangla operators)....

this place is truly beautiful but ull have to wait till i find a secure comp to upload the photos... till then, ill try to be a s desciptive as possible...

2 comments:

CK said...

interesting blog....
do write more about the saleman part... :-)

Raghav Sehgal said...

dude...get grass and then go on board an ATR...then you'll know why world is brilliant :))