siagad picnic

Siagad, also called Sinhagad,is a place in the outskirts of Pune, it has huge historical importance, as Shivaji Maharaj once had his Fort there. This weekend we went to this place for picnic. we planned to leave home by 9, but u know, saturday morning, waking up early , how it is... so as usual we got up late, but somehow, managed to get out of our house by 10 or so.. Had to go till swargate n take a jeep to the place. evderything was well n good until we reached the siagad village, then we had to go to the top of the mountain, the worst thing was the road , it was sooo horrible, n good God, sooo steep, i really had butterflies in my belly!!! Anyway, finally we were on the top(Of the World!!). The view from there was nice, though i cant call it amazing, Only thing we kept wondering was , how come the fort was built there , at such a height in those days!!!
Our Jeep dropped us at a place from where we had to go all by ourselves , to wherever we wanted. we took off from there , n started roaming around n clicking photos, my sis was a bit concerned, n was persuading not to go here n there, but to no use. Aman (my jiju) n me kept goin on and my sis had to follow! after sometime we got soo tired!! Started feeling the heat then, it wasnt easy!! but it was Fun. Though u cant find any fort, there are just few traces of the remains left , u can see. After all the roaming around episode, we finally found a spot where we can just sit, under some trees, then a lady approached us asking if we would like to have something, Lassi, Dahi, Kanda bhajis(Onion Pakodas) etc..we ordered some n ate them sitting there. we set off on our way bak, got down n down n down all the way through the disastrous road. From there we went to Khadak-Wasla Dam, relaxed for some time on the shore, there were many people there, did not feel like staying for long. Just played for sometime clicked some snaps n were bak to the abode quite tired , but feeling good!. ByeBye..
(shall upload the pics soon)

Taipei visit.

Hi, i have recently come bak from taipei, Capital city of Taiwan ,Republic of China. Now i feel like writing about my one month's experience of the place.

Basically, i went to the client side there. Being on the client's side was quite an experience. Writing about the office , work n all is quite a boring story. Its not like my office in india , hifi,hip-hop n all, so therz no point writing much about it. I prefer saying about other things like weekends, hotel, place, people, colleagues etc. I stayed in a hotel called Four Points sheraton, as the brand says, a sheraton hotel always has a quality, better than many other places, and definetely best one i have ever stayed.Its in Chung Hwa , not in the city , but was quite close to my work place. very few friends of mine were in this place,the others were in Fullerton. we had a global community in our team, there were people from India, NRIs of Cyprus, Cypriots, romanians, Israelis, Taiwanese -- uuh imagine howz it working. Actually it was soo great, i always had fun , even in such pressure. Ok lets talk about leisure, whenever we came back early , we used to sit and hang out in the bar of hotel, it was a place where we can meet people from quite many places.

View From My Room.
My first weekend wasnt dat great, to say it was quite boring, then the next one, me and Ashish, we felt we had had enuf, so packed our bags n set out to go somewhere, enquired at the reception, about a place called WuLai, its a river somewhere near by , we didnt know where it is then, took a taxi till a MRT station(Xan shu r something), from there we boarded a bus to WuLai, the journey was so nice, we met a chinese family,a couple n their daughter(very cute one), the lady could manage to speak english, and she helped us regarding the bus to board. They were quite friendly, thats the best part about the people of Taipei, they are nice and friendly,i think this is the case in almost all the asian countries, there is a kind of warmth and hospitality in the people.

Chinese Lady and her Daughter who helped us..
On our way we had our first glimpses of WuLai, flowing freely between the mountains and the forests, it was a treat to eyes, Ashish was soo excited imagining how beautiful the place shall be...all his excitment was worth.
Finaaly we reached WuLai(Wooo Lai, right way to pronounce!!),we got down the bus, started walking towards the river, there were quite many shops on the way, like in India, but mostly of Food n beverages,after walking for some time we finally reached the river , haaaa,it was sooo clean free flowing, u know just amazing...we got into the water, ashish knew to swim n he set off , i was just playing n warning him,the current of the water was high, n it looked quite dangerous..


we stayed there for long.Ashish was very curious about the cable cars, we were able to see them at a distance , but had no clue regarding where to board them n all.. Finally we went searching for them. This river starts from a big waterfall,coming from somewhere in the dense forest,and the cable car takes u close to the waterfall.


We found the way to go there, boarded a toytrain, which took us through the jungle to the mountain, from there we had to climb many steps, then we boarded the cablecar finally. Ya, forgot to add, we met a couple of chinese at the train station, elderly ones, they were sort of excited to talk to us, n a lady kept asking me hell lot of questions, thou i understood none of them!!

It was the first time i was ever on a cable car, it was quite exciting.. we were on the other side of the river now, close to the waterfalls,it was all soo great.. i could never imagine that it would all be soo sophisticated, n exceptionally well planned. there was a park, resort, sports , boating n all there in a place,which can be reached only by cable car!!!
we met an indian couple there, they were quite happy to see us, so were we!! we climbed many steps, n the scene there was fabulous!! ,


therz a small bridge kind of thing on the water fall, which makes the water stay , in a small pool.. n in that pool, were many fishes, plants, boats n all!!
best part were the fishes, it was like a very big aquarium, with all those colourful fishes visible!! great treat to eyes! dont think i will ever see something like this anyother time..



we both wanted to go boating, but , we were late , and it closes by 5pm, it was just sometime past 5, still we did not get the tickets!!
anyways we spent sometime there, n went further inside, where , we found a resort, quite beautiful, we passed over few places, then we reached another small pool, n there were, ducks n swans n fishes, it was all soo cute. there were many ducks n ducklings, apart from them there were 2 swans even!! a white one and a black one!



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