Going away from home or now that I am here I should rather call it coming here to Shillong was nothing less than the physical journey that we had to undertake to reach this place whose beauty once inspired the name “Scotland of the East”. This scenic city is located in the North-East Indian State of Meghalaya in the heart of the Khasi Hills.
When I caught the first glimpse of the hills from the window of the train, the hills were still at a safe distance from a possible, impending human assault. As we drew nearer little houses came into vision that slowly expanded into communities and then into cities. The train took us to the city of Guwahati (the capital of the Indian state of Assam and the nearest air/rail-way connected to Shillong by road), from there we hired a Sumo Taxi that took us on the breath-taking journey towards our destination, the city of lakes: Shillong.
Shillong had been beautiful when I first set foot here… (well nauseating too coz of the undulations on the way here from Guwahati) but mostly pleasing and beautiful. At that time what struck me most was the weather, the pleasant sun, soft wind and a Temperature which could not decide whether it wanted to be hot or cool(pun intended). Well after a four hour sleep the nausea was gone and it was only then that I felt that truly I was at a new place. A place where no two houses have their roofs at the same level (sloping ground), car parking sheds indicate presence of a house underneath(cars need to be parked at the road level)… well these are the only features visible from the hotel balcony… more coming up later.
c ya
Meg.
1 comment:
That's really nice Meg :)
a go0d piece of writing never fails to give me h0pe (Thank God f0r it!) and I saw a ray just n0w :)
xoxo
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