We had our trip to Bandhavgarh and Bhedaghat after a gap of 11 years, while exploring old photos found these 2 photos of the same landscape captured 11 years apart. I have upgraded my equipment, post-processing tools and also learned a lot about the technicality of composition and lighting.
I will keep on learning and improving myself, never know I will be traveling to the same place again after 11 years and posting another blog with some improvement.
There is no recognition or award for fighting his or her own hardship, few are successful in staying afloat while others are having a hope that time will change for good. How this pandemic hits the restaurant business is not hidden from anyone, this hardship often makes people bitter, but few still maintain a smile while fighting to stay afloat. This is what makes Mr. Shukal special to me, he is running a mid-size restaurant (Shree Krishna Dhaba and Restaurant, near Jabalpur) and was very courteous and cheerful. Though we were the only customers during our hour-long stay and probably one of few for the entire day, still his 4 person staff had done everything at their best in hospitality and food. He even offered us a free tea as well.
After thinking about his hardship, got a lot of motivation and hoped for a better time …
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64 Yogini temple of Bhedaghat has 81 statues of yoginis rather than the usual 64, located at a hilltop offers a great view of river Narmada and its surroundings. The temple was built early in the 11th Century AD by King Yuvaraja II, of the dynasty of the Kalachuris. It’s a rounded temple with having Shiva temple in middle. It’s the only temple that has Lord Shiva and Parvati sitting on Nandi.
Bandhavgarh fort is located at the height of approx 800 meters and spread across 560 acres, the hilltop is a plateau and visible from every corner of Bandhavgarh tiger reserver. As the fort is in mid of tiger reserve. The only place we were able to make was the statue of Lord Vishnu along with Shivling and the statue of Lord Bramha. It has a small pool of spring water. Unprepared stay at this place is risky due to tiger moments.
Traveled between 9-17 Oct 2021
Managing leaves and keeping up with the right time to travel does not work all the time, though we have planned this trip 3 months back, it’s almost the end of the travel season to Spiti. Many hotels and restaurants were about to shut for the winter when we reached Spiti. Noticed mainly different shades of brown as winters are about to start. View of Chandratal lake makes all effort worth, capturing all the landscape which I have seen while driving will take another thousand years though. Posting few photos among 1000 odd photos I took on this trip.
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