Once you get into a sedentary job in Bangalore, not always you get a chance to travel in a train that too when monsoons are in full flow. And this time I traveled a few hundred kilometers and every time I do this in monsoons, I get obsessed with the train journeys.
Unlike in a bus, there are times that I have wondered by their discussions thinking if they are relatives or the strangers on a first time discussion doing it with ease. And those lonely stations with almost no one on a hundred meter long platform but the empty chairs at every twenty meters with the lush green grass everywhere makes it so picture perfect for a movie shoot or a brilliant photography to capture the essence of silence and serene.
It makes me wonder, why the train routes are always constructed in between the farms, the hills or the lake side!! (May be area specific but at least the routes I travel are so). A monsoon journey will definitely fascinate you with the wide green fields spread across hundreds of acres and a heavy pouring almost everywhere, you get to see the streams running in full flow on your way. In fact you get to witness different varieties of flora all the way in your route which makes you curious enough to know more about them. If you can ignore few problems in your journey, I bet you are definitely set to enjoy our beautiful countryside this monsoons. Go guys, have one this season soon!!
Pic: On a route in Sakleshpur , India
