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Its been sometime I went for a trek .My friend Sriram Sreenivasan and myself decided to trek towards the Karnala Fort .We started at 9 am from Nerul station towards Panvel .From panvel , its about 11 kms to reach the entrance of Karnala Bird Sanctuary .The journey was awesome because first time I was traveling in “TUM TUM”.Its a bit bigger auto rickshaw but I was enjoying the drive .After reaching there we took the tickets for the entry and started the trek .The starting itself was a bit tedious for me .Its been sometime that I have gone for a steep walking like we had today .But I did it at last . We took lots of breaks in between and made a slow move to the top .After some steep and bad route we reached to a clear plane land on top where the grass have grown a bit because of the good rains . The fort was really huge and I was wondering it would have been difficult for Shivaji the great for constructing a fort on top like this .Got a chance to take some wonderful snaps and that can be viewed here .

It was almost 2 months I was missing Kerala. Onam and my cousin Sis Manju’s marriage were both coming in the next week .I decided to take one week leave to visit Kerala . I headed to Kochi as my parents decided to drive to Cannanore in our newly bought Honda City .I spent Onam with my grandmother at my dad’s place .I was much happy that my cousin brother Vinith was also there to celebrate Onam from Chennai .We traveled a bit around our place to get some ‘God’s own country’ shots in my camera and I hope I got some good ones.
Marriage was also a nice point were I was able to meet my relatives in one place. Altogether got a nice break from my work.

Shared some of the snaps here .