|| " Some Happiest moments are just a random probability, they just come in unpredicted ways" ||
The wind out of the Dominos was chill and the sun added some warmth. at 2000m+ elevation it was just chill with bright sun, no fog, no jackets or sweaters required. You can just walk around with normal dresses you are wearing.To my left was a steep road leading to coakers walk. As i started walking i imagined the road to be isolated, covered with green trees and thick fog. I carefully crossed the road and took left.The road was steep and in a distance of few meters i could see a curve. Interesting i thought, what would be beyond the curve.
Few minutes later my vision was shattered. The road was covered with green but had cars and bikes in it and no fog. With little disappointment i walked, i felt im missing something, quickly i went to the left side of the road and picked up a stick. Stick, only a lonely trekker can understand how important a stick is.
It was a normal, thin and long. clearing leaves on road, hitting stones to other side of the road was all the fun i had with the stick. As i walked, to my right i found a mysterious path leading to a place full of trees. My eyes were filled with excitement and i quickly hurried near it. The place looked familiar to the one showed in movies were a a man chases another in a place full of trees and suddenly one hides behind a tree and play taunts.
I stepped in! As i waked my blue old canvas started crushing the crisp brown leaves and hearing that my hand swung the stick across the path clearing the leaves or poking them. I walked further in and found a huge Log Inclined 60 degrees over another tree forming a bridge between a tree on the left and the tree on right.
Great looks like the one in movies! the place, the silence, the large scary tree, the gloomy temperature and dim sun, but still could there be any adventure??
After walking further i heard a howl, every step i took forward the howl came closer. The howl was familiar. It is the same kind of Howl i hear whenever i walk in streets at late night. Dogs! They are unpredictable! Daburmens, huge bull dogs, German breeds all scary dogs with huge tooth damn, all have the same howl! how could i even figure out what it was? was it a poodle? or some giant thigh grabbing dog?
The Howl came closer or i moved closer to it and there was a old rugged house and outside it was a dog howling and barking at me. Suddenly there came a sound " Hey!!!" i looked around there was no one, i rotated my head and body round and round like the merry-go round. To my right, on a tree there was small kid ! " What are you doing here?? what you want?" he asked " I just came around , can i go further? whats there? can i see any mountains from there" and pointed towards the path ahead " Yes , go" he said and i moved further.
A view of cottages on hills and the road to the hills were visible ,but this beautiful view was ruined by the overgrown plants and trees.The place was unclean , it had plastic bags, empty water packets , Bottles etc.. After taking a snap i returned and i thought i will have some chat with boy and take a snap of the dog, To my surprise both the boy and dog vanished! could they be Ghost?? hmm.. well good imagination, my mind applauded my brain.
The sun came dim and there was absolute silence. I saw the old rugged house again and walked past it. A couple of more snaps of the trees and the crisp brown leaves covering the ground and then im back to the main road..
The walk continued to the 1st gate of coakers walk with some pictures. On the way i saw 2 churches, both were small. One church by name salieth Matha was said to be several years old (100yrs). Anyone who says about a church that is 100Years old, Anyone would imagine the church with a huge structure with glass, paintings and an antique look with a cross on the top.But this church was small, just like an ordinary church and was painted in blue, disappointing! I stood out for a second with a smile and clicked a photo of it and continued to the Coakers walk.
The 1st gate of coakers walk was approximately 3km walk from Dominos. A board said 10Rs for an adult, out of my bulgy purse i pulled a 10rs note and in return got a rose colored 4cm square paper.With the entry ticket i passes by the grilled entrance.Coakers walk is nothing but a well laid curb which is a 5mins walk . On one side there are rocks and other side it is fenced and the view of mountains. As i walked the sun became dim and the fog covered the mountains, soon the mountains were consumed by a flash fog. All i could see was the curb surrounded by a white background. It was beautiful, cool and pleasant.
There were several people. Family, lovers, couples, group of friends and i was all single. At no point i felt bad that i was alone. i enjoyed walking on the curb looking those beautiful mountain tops colliding with clouds.Interestingly i saw few Trees in coakers walk. One tree grew horizontally! Someday a great nasty wind had made the tree bend down to its power and entirely changed its course of growth, this should have happened several years ago, when the tree was a plant. Bend it like beckam!!
The walk ended when i reached the gate-2, the exit gate.From coakers walk i planned to take a route to Lake. It was another 2-3KM approx. I took a road were no cars or bikes or even people pass. The road was dark and shadowed by the arching trees and i switched to music in my earphones and started singing! I saw different trees , large ones , small ones, branches bent and curved, trees growing from between rocks. I felt i need to sit some were and i found a nice spot.
On my right there was a small place fully covered with red autumn leaves, grass and green tiny plants. I sat there on something hard and solid. I thought it was a rock but it was a tree's root. The chill wind swept the red leaves and my oily sweaty face turned chill as the grass danced. The smell of mud, the waving green leaves in the tree looked wonderful. I closed my eyes for a while and it was absolute silence. Some were within me a great joy arose and i opened my eyes, the sun brightened and i whispered looking at those green trees " You are beautiful"... picked my stick, bag and started walking to the lake.Happiness has no source, it is just like fresh air. Just relax , feel it and it is available in plenty.
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