Pachmarhi Trip - Aug 2009

While on Senior Command Course at Mhow, we got a small brek and me and Col Pandey headed to Pachmarhi Hill Station.

This is while we stopped en route...

Wonderful letter by a fauji's daughter

Received an email fwd by a friend. Am reporducing it below. Seems to be so apt and moving...written by an ex-Col's daughter. Read it here..

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...some more...

snow covered mountain lends a splendid backdrop to a Chorten





















setting Sun provides a sureal glow to a Chorten...





















a house...mixing the new and the ethnic architectural flavour...

the oldest resident of this region the Yak...





















another Yak by the side of the road...


















Prayer Flags decorate a Chorten...





















Two Chortens aligned ....East to West,....

some more pics...

the passes give a breathtaking view of the vally ahead...

nature could not have painted a better landscape....
the blues and the khakis present such a contrast


River Indus meandering its way through valleys cut by the river itself
in its glory days...

Prayer Flags decorate every house in this region

Zanskar River makes its way through frozen hurdles, as the
white cover begins to recede.....

Images of the land that has played host to me for the last year and a half

Spirituality manifests itself in every form here. This rock for example.



Chorten. Buddhist temple. For more go to http://www.silkroads.com/ritualobjects/chorten.html





A closer look at a Chorten.




Every rock on this wall connecting the Chorten is inscribed with these Holy prayers.