meghalaya

We were falling in love with Shillong and the beautiful girls there, but then we realized that the one thing that stays constant in a traveler’s life is change. We stayed 4 days and 4 nights in Shillong and covered almost all the city on foot and got used to the city so much that we were even able to guide routes to new people :) The only disappointment in the Shillong stay is that we couldn’t visit couple of places partly due to the weather constraints and partly the budget....

I have not been able to run my 10k in Shillong as promised - have pain in my right leg because of a suspected shin splint. However, to compensate for that, I wore the Hyderabad Runners t-shirt the whole day today in Shillong and will be wearing the same to Agartala. So you do know how comfortable that t-shirt is right? Join the Hyderabad Runners and get one for yourself!

Just 50kms from Shillong, the weather is so different, you would wonder if you came to some other land. We have been having warm and very pleasant weather (early 20s - celcius) in Shillong - it does cool down in the evenings and is even a little chilly. There has been some rain too - only a little, but nothing prepared us for what we encountered at Cherrapunjee - the wettest recorded place on Earth....

Posting some good captures from Meghalaya. There are tons of them left. Will Try to post them some other time. The Bara Paani or the Umiam Lake near Shillong My Fav place - The Ward’s Lake in Shillong Up for sale near Police Bazaar, Shillong A handicrafts shop in Shillong - A Not-To-Miss Activity here Cherrapunjee - Got the taste of the wettest place on Earth Tripura Castle, Shillong - a Castle turned Luxury Hotel...

As we hadn’t seen much of Shillong yesterday, we decided we would do some of the sights here. Got up pretty early and went to Lady Hydari Park in the south of the city. Nothing much to write about the park other than that there is a small zoo also inside. There were very few people inside as it was very early in the day. We loved looking at the majestic Serpent Crested Eagles in the aviary though!...

We started the day a little late today - waking up until late in the night to write blog posts does that! Most travelers spend just one day at Shillong and then go to Cherrapunjee apparently. But since we’d already lost half a day, we thought we’ll take it slow and spend some more time here (that’s another way of saying we are yet to figure out our travel and acco plans for Cherrapunjee)....

Last night, we were so tired when we got into the hotel that we didn’t even ask for sheets - we just crashed on the beds. Plus, the huge amount of money (Rs. 600) we had to pay for the hotel room had really got to us and had put a doubt in our minds if we would be able to keep up with the #150aday challenge. But a good night’s sleep rested our minds and got our resolve was back again....

As said earlier, we are setting off on May 5th 2010 from Hyderabad. We travel from Hyderabad to Siliguri in West Bengal by train as we don’t want to make a bbq of ourselves before we even reach the North East. We start our hitchhiking from Siliguri. We are skipping Darjeeling and Sikkim (and feeling very bad about it) as we have to complete the entire North East before the Monsoons cut them off the plains....