The Blind Game

The clouds say, "Hello!"
The birds smile..
And the flowers whisper..
Let's give life another chance..

The days passes by,
Along with feelings,emotions
And madness..
What remains are the ashes..

That the wind takes away..silently..!

Journey to the Edge…..

That was a normal bored day and I was surfing the net. No specific work, so was moving from one page to another randomly. Starting with desert viper, I reached the TripAdvisor page. Just out of curiosity clicked the top 16 tourist places in Shillong. And there we go...got the name Laitlum Canyon ( the word canyon attracted me the most) , and the day after we were ready to go.

We kicked off our bikes from Guwahati at around 5 am, though the plan was for 4 am. And I don’t want to bring any pain to my 1st travel story by speaking even a word about our 100 kms Guwahati to Shillong journey. We reached Shillong at 9 ...and moved to Smit.. Google maps didn't know what is Leitlum and after searching and searching,I got that we need to move through the town Smit for Leitlum. No one in our group of 8, had any idea about Smit,leave Leitlum. After taking direction from the locals after  each 5 mins, finally,we left the Shillong city.  The next 15 kms to Smit was not  so amazing.even there came some moments,when we thought are we really going to get a place as awesome as our prev trip to Mawphlang ( that was also a sudden trip like this and what we got was just unforgettable) .  But after leaving the NH, the scene changed.and with each turning our jaw opened  wider and wider. And  Smit finally.! A small clean peaceful town. But the tragedy for us was that, No one,even at smit knew anything about Leiltlum.  The locals can hardly speak any Hindi word,and after asking and making gestures again again,the answer was a laugh and “NAY’.  But luck was not so bad for us I guess, we under assumption took our way,and in the next town which was about 12kms far, we got it right. A BSF cadet confirmed that, Leitlum was 4 kms from there.

                                          

                                                          The Small Town of Smit  

       How much time one can take to cross 4kms on bike? 15 mins, 30 mins???  We took more than one and half hour,may be two to  get Leitlum ( excluding the time when we were lost) . And the culprit was the breathtaking and all its synonyms beauty of the place.!  We stopped at a place with a stone query. And all of us, I repeat all of us were just saying” wowwww.!!, what a place.”  And right now, I am unable to find any words,to describe the place. All I can say is that, we were blessed to  see that beauty so near to our home,when people run to Kashmir or Switzerland. Each and every single thing of that place was  just perfect,the breathtaking landscape, the stream which was flowing between  a plain hill of grass and another  hill of rocks, the wind that wouldn't let us stand, the hide seek of the sun and clouds, which with its each move,forced us to say WOWW.!  The little boy with his herd of cows,who wouldn't let us take a single picture of him,.but couldn't help himself from gazing at us,gave us some more awesome time.! All of us could have stayed there forever, but Leitlum was waiting for us. With heavy minds, we headed towards Leitlum.

      The mouth watering beauty of this place took away more than 2 hours of our one day trip.! :)

And than we were lost. What happened was that, we took a wrong turn, after asking a local with the laugh and “nay nay”. And we didn't bother to stop,as the view was such that,everyone though that if the beauty is this like here only,what a wonderful place will be waiting for us ahead.!! But ,after 2 or 3 kms, there was a signboard which-ed named two places that were almost impossible to pronounce, each with more than 8 kms distance. Thanks to my cap,who blew off with the wind, and when I was getting it back,one local  farmer, directed Leitlum ,the way we came. And after all that we finally reached our destination.!!!! LEITLUM.!!! “THE EDGE” !! after looking at the view,one thing we really regretted that, why  didn't  we just kept in mind the advice given in TripAdvisor, to reach it before noon.  The place was like out of the world.!!  A place so silent where you can actually hear  the silence.!! No words, no pictures, no videos can actually capture or describe the beauty  of the place.when we were there, it was all covered with fog, I wonder, how one can bear  the beauty of the place without the fog.!! Despite of the big notice prohibiting tourist to stay in the place after 5 pm, all I wanted was to spend the night there..! I wonder what it would feel like. Leitlum has more than 2000 stone steps connecting a village below the hills  which we could hardly recognized from the up.there is also a rope way,which is probably used for transporting goods. We couldn't get any good idea about it as the two locals who were there only could laugh. They didn't even have the “nay nay”. The tired we couldn't made it more than 100 steps and when we climbed back to the top, we were wondering, how can the locals do it!!! Whatever, the place took away all the pain out of us.Leitlum!! what a place..!! when we were approaching our bikes, I bet everyone in our group had one thing in mind, we must have to come again.

And the rest was simple..we started our journey back to Guwahati , had lunch at Smit,where we needed to act like a cock,to  get chicken and the amazement of Meghalaya’s rain filled our journey with some more colors, despite of the 250 kms hips breaking bike journey.


Meghalaya, the Scotland of east is a place that can open your mouth with wonderfully beautiful places.You just need to look beyond the common tourist places.No doubt they are filled with the beauty that any place can ever get, but may be by looking beyond  you can have some memories that can bring a little more jealousy to you travel story!  

Rainbows without the little rain.!!

"Life is too short to be anything but happy” So, I believe in loving deeply, forgiving quickly, taking chances, having no regrets, forgetting the bad and remembering only the happy moments. I want to be happy without any pain. Yes, I want the rainbow without the little rain!

I am a dreamer! I love to sit on the moon and talk to the stars, I love to be a mermaid, I love roaming at Pandora...and I love to do anything I want to do!! I believe in miracles...and I believe in dreaming new dreams! For me dreams are the best part of life. You can be whatever you want to be, with whoever you want to be, at wherever you want to be. And I know to be in love with the places I have never been to and with the people I have never met, dreams teaches me how! And for dreaming a dream I am always ready to bear the pain of waking up! After all I want rainbows without the little rain!!