Experiance the Heaven..
At times we wonder how wld the heaven be.. I think I found it.. at the beneath of NIAGARA..
Long weekend plans started long back but nothin was gettin materialized.. A day before leavin we (cini, arpit, mary & i) decided on niagara.. tried for a bus but it was too late.. so happily opted for the option of car..
Started by 11am from boston.. For me it was a first long trip in US by car.. so was dam excited.. Mary n Arpit were gonna drive.. cini n i were kachha limbu :-).. though we tried our best 2 get hold of car in every parkin lot ;-) So journey started with all discussion on the way to reach there, songs, general talks etc.. at times stopped at service areas n got car n ourselves loaded.. Finally a point came from where we can see these building hiding behind a huge fog like thing.. that was the 1st glance of Niagara..
Checked-in into hotel which was vry close by d fall.. got freshen up n left 2 catch that beautiful view.. reached this plc called goat island.. a garden with this curved bridge.. a river flowing below it.. n hundreds of seagulls flyin by u.. u try ur best 2 capture them flyin but u wont get the perfect 1.. by the time we reached near niagara, it started gettin dark n all lights were focused on niagara.. trying to make it further beautiful with every ray of those red/yellow/white/blue lights.. captured every aspect of it in our cameras..
Left from there.. had dinner at a indian restaurant called Sardar Dhaba.. & again thought of going to other side of fall.. while going found a roadside singer singing Ghost movie's OST (oh my love, my darlin..).. with that waterfall sound in the background n chilly atmosphere, song sounded really romantic than it is.. From there we went to this point where there was no1.. n surprisingly no security at all.. even though it had only 1 railing over which u can bend over & see the amaizing view of fall going down deep into the river n gettin vanished in dark.. it was all dark in there n at times that view was giving a scary feeling to me.. dont know how but this idea popped up in cini n my head that this is the best plc 2 commit suicide..
day was a hectic.. slept finally by 1:30-2 but still decided to get up by 4:30 next day morning.. & to my surprise i could get myself out of the bed sharp on time with an intension to catch the view of niagara with the rising sun.. bt guess we were lil unfortunate that by the time we got ready, sun was already out.. still could capture few gud shots of mornin beauty..
came back.. chked out from hotel n caught a tour bus.. it took us to various places in buffalo city.. went to this point which was a kind of bridge called "pathway below the fall" that is built every year in a particular period.. it's jst next to waterfall n gives u feelin like u r takin whole fall over u.. those thousands of cold, speedy water drops hits u every moment.. u cant even look directly to that shiny fall.. an amaizin experience..
then roaming further for some more time n visitin few more places we finally reached the point that we were eager to experience all our trip.. its a boat (maid of mist) which takes u as close to the canadian side of fall as 1 can go.. right beneath the waterfall.. started from american side moving with those 100s of seagulls flyin parallel to the river n catchin fishes in a instance of a second.. as boat moved ahead it started giving that chilled breez of fall water.. which was gettin densed with every moment.. finally it reached to d point where there was extremely chilled wind & shower of equally chilled water with that loud sound of fall.. u cant hear anythin other than that.. u cant think of anythin else other the what u r seeing.. it cuts off every single connection of urs 2 d other world.. n let go urself lost u inside it.. a lifetime experience of niagara which I'd been hearin since ages, was in front of me.. guess this is d 1 what they call a heaven....
At times we wonder how wld the heaven be.. I think I found it.. at the beneath of NIAGARA..
Long weekend plans started long back but nothin was gettin materialized.. A day before leavin we (cini, arpit, mary & i) decided on niagara.. tried for a bus but it was too late.. so happily opted for the option of car..
Started by 11am from boston.. For me it was a first long trip in US by car.. so was dam excited.. Mary n Arpit were gonna drive.. cini n i were kachha limbu :-).. though we tried our best 2 get hold of car in every parkin lot ;-) So journey started with all discussion on the way to reach there, songs, general talks etc.. at times stopped at service areas n got car n ourselves loaded.. Finally a point came from where we can see these building hiding behind a huge fog like thing.. that was the 1st glance of Niagara..
Checked-in into hotel which was vry close by d fall.. got freshen up n left 2 catch that beautiful view.. reached this plc called goat island.. a garden with this curved bridge.. a river flowing below it.. n hundreds of seagulls flyin by u.. u try ur best 2 capture them flyin but u wont get the perfect 1.. by the time we reached near niagara, it started gettin dark n all lights were focused on niagara.. trying to make it further beautiful with every ray of those red/yellow/white/blue lights.. captured every aspect of it in our cameras..
Left from there.. had dinner at a indian restaurant called Sardar Dhaba.. & again thought of going to other side of fall.. while going found a roadside singer singing Ghost movie's OST (oh my love, my darlin..).. with that waterfall sound in the background n chilly atmosphere, song sounded really romantic than it is.. From there we went to this point where there was no1.. n surprisingly no security at all.. even though it had only 1 railing over which u can bend over & see the amaizing view of fall going down deep into the river n gettin vanished in dark.. it was all dark in there n at times that view was giving a scary feeling to me.. dont know how but this idea popped up in cini n my head that this is the best plc 2 commit suicide..
day was a hectic.. slept finally by 1:30-2 but still decided to get up by 4:30 next day morning.. & to my surprise i could get myself out of the bed sharp on time with an intension to catch the view of niagara with the rising sun.. bt guess we were lil unfortunate that by the time we got ready, sun was already out.. still could capture few gud shots of mornin beauty..
came back.. chked out from hotel n caught a tour bus.. it took us to various places in buffalo city.. went to this point which was a kind of bridge called "pathway below the fall" that is built every year in a particular period.. it's jst next to waterfall n gives u feelin like u r takin whole fall over u.. those thousands of cold, speedy water drops hits u every moment.. u cant even look directly to that shiny fall.. an amaizin experience..
then roaming further for some more time n visitin few more places we finally reached the point that we were eager to experience all our trip.. its a boat (maid of mist) which takes u as close to the canadian side of fall as 1 can go.. right beneath the waterfall.. started from american side moving with those 100s of seagulls flyin parallel to the river n catchin fishes in a instance of a second.. as boat moved ahead it started giving that chilled breez of fall water.. which was gettin densed with every moment.. finally it reached to d point where there was extremely chilled wind & shower of equally chilled water with that loud sound of fall.. u cant hear anythin other than that.. u cant think of anythin else other the what u r seeing.. it cuts off every single connection of urs 2 d other world.. n let go urself lost u inside it.. a lifetime experience of niagara which I'd been hearin since ages, was in front of me.. guess this is d 1 what they call a heaven....
posted by Amit Pilgaokar at 2:16 PM
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