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This was the view as one move towards the Kokan Darwaja. Max was simply enjoing the view.
The mountains were floatingggggggggggggggggggg.....he he he.
Maxim thanks for the pose as well as the camera :). Mandal lai lai aabhri ahey :)
The morning was beautfiul.....after getting down at Khubi Fata one has to walk this dam to reach the base village of Khireshwar.
This was the start of the trek....
Max thanks for the camera :)
Mother natures splash of life....as the vegetation turns multishaded green....in the valleys of Sahayadri...
As the gateway to Central India, Igatpuri is a bustling town atop the mighty Western Ghats converging the road and rail network within its valley. You can see the rail bridge on the right and also some tracks below. This place is a treat to ones eyes, specially during the rains when every passanger has just one wish... if only this train was a convertible ;-)
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Ashoka falls, Vihigaon, Maharashtra.
This www.youtube.com/watch?v=75mx2r5EC9k song was shot here, leading to the change of name of this fall.
While Maharashtra is cursed with severe droughts, particularly in the Marathwada region, the western front (Sahayadri belt) gets some of the highest rainfall in the country. What catches one's eye, is the immense no. of barges and small dams that are constructed in this belt to harvest this rain-water and then feed it back during the 9 months of post-monsoon dry climate. This can be clearly seen from an aircraft some 30 minutes before it lands in Mumbai, a root topology of rivers, abruptly blocked by a straight line dam. A model for the water-starved country ?
Incidentally, this dam is one of the perennial sources of water to Mumbai.
We have a lot of rain in 3 months. Time to wake up !!!
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the scene was lovely, everything was glittering after the rains......everything was soaked and covered in clouds.
Shot with my brothers camera :)
It started to rain and it was difficult to stay put. Just to see a train whistle over those trusses, I will hit that road again...for sure.
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As the train gains much needed potential energy by pumping enough electrons in its traction motors to go over the mighty Western Ghats (Sahayadri range) connecting Mumbai to the rest of India. Shot at Camel valley, Igatpuri.
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Evergreen forests along Mukurthi National Park (Tamil Nadu) and New Amlavaram (Kerala) in south-western India's Western Ghats.
Mukurthi National Park is in one of India's most beautiful districts - The Nilgiris. The park is located atop the Nilgiri Plateau and is home to some of India's most beautiful landscapes and endangered wildlife like Nigiri Tahr (a type of mountain goat) and Bengal Tiger.
To know more about Mukurthi National Park, please click here
ABOUT WESTERN GHATS:
Western Ghats, or Sahayadris as they are known in many Indian languages, are a 1600 km long chain of mountains that run parallel to the Arabian Sea in peninsular India. They give birth to almost all the major rivers of south India. These rivers provide drinking and irrigation water for more than 250 million people. The 'Ghats' are one of earth's designated 25 Bio-diversity 'Hot Spots'. They are home to some of earth's rarest flora and fauna and most spectacular landscapes.
GEAR: Nikon FM10 SLR, Nikkor 35 - 70mm lens, 35mm slide film.
SCANNER: CanoScan U1250 flat bed scanner.
From being featured on Chris Tarrant's "Extreme Railway" to being pegged as one of the toughest terrain for commercial railway track, the Konkan Railway is an engineering marvel designed to awe and inspire. With over 90 tunnels and 2000 bridges, this railway line runs from Mumbai to the southern tip of India along the Konkan coast (Arabian Sea) through the Sahayadri mountain ranges (Western Ghats). These ranges start almost from the shoreline, thereby making it extremely difficult of find plain land to lay tracks. To make matters worse, this place is buffeted with cyclonic storms and heavy shower.
Then you combine all that, and its a mythical place. The landscape is oozing of green gold with waterfalls at every blink, bridges that start from the mouth of tunnels, steep gorge, small and large rivers, brook.... you name it.
Then you package that in Vistadome, a tourist friendly railway couch designed to deliver maximum viewing pleasure to each and every passenger.
And it did... full marks !
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Lost in the Sahayadri's.....just after a splash of rain....green fields...beautiful sky...lovely, beautiful and wonderful world
it had rained in the night......the morning was beautiful.....this was shot at the base of Kamalgad in Vasole village.
Masters thanks for letting me use your camera :)
A view of Iron Ore mining in Kudremukh National Park of Karnataka state, in south-western India's Western Ghats. Below is the Bhadra River.
You can see the hill tops exposed to elements, devoid of vegetation and grass cover. The mining activity in the Park has STOPPED, due to the help sought by Karnataka's wildlife activists with India's judicial system.
GEAR: Nikon F50 SLR, Sigma 28 - 80mm lens, 35mm print film.
SCANNER: CanoScan D1250F flat bed scanner, scanned from a print.
ABOUT WESTERN GHATS:
Western Ghats are a 1600 KM long chain of mountains that run parallel to the Arabian Sea in peninsular India. They give birth to almost all the major rivers of south India. These rivers provide drinking and irrigation water for more than 250 million people. The 'Ghats' are one of earth's designated 25 Bio-diversity 'Hot Spots'. They are home to some of earth's rarest flora and fauna and most spectacular landscapes.
Cruising over Sahayadri Range (Western Ghats) somewhere near Satara, Maharashtra.
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Clouds clearing @ Konkan Kada.
This is an amazing scene.....have to be there to experience it :D
Maxim thanks for the camera :)
Strawberry is an expensive fruit in India. It makes its appearance ever so briefly to flatter and kindle the taste buds of the congnoscenti for a month or so and then it just disappears for the rest of the year.
India's climatic conditions do not really suit strawberry cultivation and it is not an original fruit out of India. The Chinese must be credited for the strawberry and also for making it a cultivar in India.
Most of the strawberries now a days come out of the area alongside Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra.
Located at an altitude of approximately 4000 feet in the western ghats of India, the climate in the winter months is ideal for growing strawberries.
The strawberry cultivation in India has its history in the international flow of commerce and mass migration enforced under the aegis of the East India Company where slaves kept as convicts were made to move to other places to build roads and work as slave labor. An open prison was set up in 1840s for the enslaved Chinese and Malay convicts who were moved from Pune to Mahabaleshwar. They worked in road making gangs and in their spare time started cultivation.
Since Mahabaleshwar had only one route in and out the Chinese prisoners were allowed to roam free and they then took up the work of cultivating their native strawberry growing technique in Mahalbaleshwar. Another activity that they started was the making of leather footwear.
Today Mahabaleshwar is known for precisely these two things - footwear and strawberries and it is a totally Chinese contribution. Most of the Chinese prisoners settled down for good and inter married and now no one can say that the Chinese were here !
It is true that you do not find any ethnic Chinese with mongoloid features, an epicanthic fold and a bamboo basket in Mahableshwar but look closer. You will find the mongoloid features ever so often on many a native family. The local people as well as an internet search will draw a blank. That is the power of subsuming in India. Here everything disappears in the grit and the heat and the dust to become Indian.
This was shot in Panchagani in the market in late evening with light coming from the western side. A quick in and out before the man started posing in earnest. And this was in October 2010 when the fruit is not in season.
Camera Nikon D300
Exposure 0.077 sec (1/13)
Aperture f/5.0
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias +1/3 EV
Flash No Flash
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ps - Edit - Text modified in part to advance the dates of the forced relocation of the Chinese convicts to about 1840
A beautiful sunset over the Sahyadri range, Maharastra.
Western Ghats also known as Sahyadri (Benevolent Mountains) is a mountain range that runs parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula, located entirely in India. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the eight "hottest hot-spots" of biological diversity in the world. It is sometimes called the Great Escarpment of India. The range runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain, called Konkan, along the Arabian Sea. A total of thirty-nine properties including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests were designated as world heritage sites - twenty in Kerala, ten in Karnataka, five in Tamil Nadu and four in Maharashtra.
Where ever I go in the Sahayadris, he has been my companion always , only with a different face every time.
He has no Identity but he guides me all the timeâĻ
Mahabaleshwar is a small hill town that nestles on top of the Western Ghats of India. The monsoons descends with much fanfare and fury in June and July every year bringing a riot of rainfall that touches almost about 5000-6000 mm of rain.
Of course, the colonial British populated it in large numbers and it served as a open air jail for prisoners Malay and Chinese ethnicity and later Boer farmers of Dutch origin from the Boer war and many died and remain buried there.
Mahabaleshwar is also well known for its strawberries for which the Chinese convicts must be thanked as they set up these farms during their incarceration in Mahabaleshwar
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Situated in a remote locale of Maharashtra, India, this fall at a drop of 30 meters is one of the tallest and raging falls in the Sahayadri (Western Ghats) ranges. The light falling upon the water just adds to the brilliance of it.
The location remains the same but it is not a rainy misty da.
Work must go on.
Mahabaleshwar is a small hill town that nestles on top of the Western Ghats of India. The monsoons descends with much fanfare and fury in June and July every year bringing a riot of rainfall that touches almost about 5000-6000 mm of rain.
Of course, the colonial British populated it in large numbers and it served as a open air jail for prisoners Malay and Chinese ethnicity and later Boer farmers of Dutch origin from the Boer war and many died and remain buried there.
Mahabaleshwar is also well known for its strawberries for which the Chinese convicts must be thanked as they set up these farms during their incarceration in Mahabaleshwar
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May you all be blessed with such Breathtaking views whenever you look through the View Finder !!!
The view around Kenjalgad was amazing, the rain clouds came and went giving way to a beautiful scene.
The waters that can be seen here are of the Dhom dam.......also one can see the Raireshwar plateau on the right side.......also Mahabaleshwar can be seen in this shot...
Masters thanks for letting me use your camera :)
This is the not so famous rock patch.....its an easy patch but many happen to fear this patch....its more in the mind i guess.
This is the major fun part of the trek though :D
Maxim thanks for letting me use your camera :)
cant seem to get enough of such shots.....hats off to the jumping guys ....its not at all easy to do something like this after a "not so easy" trek.....may be it must have been the relief factor that they got down the slippery rock craved steps....
Bhupya thanks for letting me use your camera :)
The view from Khandh Kadaj was awesome........Sahayadris at there rugged best.
The forts Rajgad and Torna are also visible here.
Rati thanks for letting me use your camera :)
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Early morning sun rays pierce through the rainforest canopy and fall on the near dry bed of an unknown stream in Makutta forests of south-western India's Western Ghats, in Virajpete Taluk, Karnataka state.
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Gear: Nikon F50 with Sigma 28 - 80mm. Shot on a print film.
Post-processing: Scanned from a Matte print using CanoScan U1250 flatbed scanner.
ABOUT WESTERN GHATS:
Western Ghats are a 1600 KM long chain of mountains that run parallel to the Arabian Sea in peninsular India. They give birth to almost all the major rivers of south India. These rivers provide drinking and irrigation water for more than 250 million people. The 'Ghats' are one of earth's designated 25 Bio-diversity 'Hot Spots'. They are home to some of earth's rarest flora and fauna and most spectacular landscapes.
Its Monsoon time .... And there cannot be any better place in the world then having a trail in The Sahayadris during Monsoons..
An old man on his way to the farm ....
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This is huge waterfall, Amboli is hill station located at south maharashtra, India. At an altitude of 690 m it is the last hill station before the coastal highlands of Goa and a relatively unexplored one.
Amboli lies in the Sahayadri Hills of Western India, one of the world's "Eco Hot-Spots" and it therefore abounds in a variety of fairly unique flora and fauna.