there's a hill close by... so we set off to visit it... it's one of those nearby places you live next to all your life but never visit coz you can do so anytime you want... we had plans of scaling a bigger hill which didn't work out coz things have a way of falling apart around my plans... anyway, this hill, mandara giri, is a huge boulder... not much scaling... 436 steps carved into it, one way... the railings helped as we huffed and puffed our way up... there's a small compound in which there are 4-5 small temples... idols of different Jain saints... we then come out and walk around for a while... i decide to climb a few rocks and do so... get stuck on one of them and have to be rescued... it always surprises me... even while i'm stuck... on trees or boulders... that the climb is so easy and then, when all you have to do is turn around and climb down, you cant... hmm...
next we find a spot on a ledge... eat stuff... and while the others chatter around me, i find myself a cozy spot... the stone is warm with the sun and the wind blows in gusts... i lie down and trace a lone eagle's path for a while... it struggles against the wind before diving down suddenly... my perch on the hill is so high, i'm looking down on the eagle... i doze off sometime in between... wake up... click a few pictures... we decide unanimously that the phrases, 'the world at your feet' and 'on top of the world' must have been coined by someone similarly stuck on a ledge above some hill... we torture a few frogs in the little water hole before a steady crackle behind us brings us to our feet....some degenerate has set ablaze a patch of dry grass... and coz it's so dry and there's a steady wind, the fire spreads everywhere... i only wished i had done it! :)
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