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Ayu Bhavan !! Hidden Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka - the most virgin beaches , salubrious climate , good people , excellent food, beautiful sceneries and Budhist heritage and the best Rubies and Cinnamon in the world

Budha

Budhas inside 2000 year old cave temple at Dambulla

Dambulla Cave Temple - another view of the Budhas

Sigiriya Rock -a monastery of 1-2 Century BC, King Kassapa built
a fort on the top of the rock of 1000 meters high - a tiresome vertical

View from the top of Sigiriya Rock

Mural Paintings on the Rock of Sigiriya - painted with natural
colors on the rock - earliest Srilankan classical paintings of the Budhist period.

An excellent hotel at Kandalama - 1 km long built into the rocky mountain , the lobby is within a cut rock ! architecture by Geoffry Bawa .

Cinnamon Habarana Resort , excellent nature friendly resort spanning 27 acres

dubai motor show

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the Dubai Motor show dislays all the latest and vintage type autos

have a look

flowers from my home garden

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Investment of the Century - GOLD

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Multidecade chart ( updated upto 2003)

Current price : $ 670 per ounce

Precious metals , especially gold is the investment of the Century. Supply-demand equations and socio-politico-economic atmosphere of this century makes this yellow metal as the real currency of the world and a safe investment which can fetch a price of over $ 1000 by 2008-2009.

Photography

2007-08-18T09:32:00.000-07:00

Photography is a passion for me. here , i am digitally freezing a moment of nature into eternity. Contrary to popular perception , it is not the sophistication or cost of the equipment that counts - but our creativity . No doubt , it is an art.

But sad to say , even the state-of-the art optical technology is not even enough to capture the glories of nature. I realised this aspect in 2003 while camping near Gomukh , Uttaranchal Himalayas which is the source of the River Ganges ( bhagirathi) , the legendary river around which the Indus civilization developed. Gomukh ( 4000 meters) is the snout of 20km long Gangotri glacier where the river gushes out to the earth. Got up at 4 am in the bone biting cold , wriggled out of the tent and Aloha ! - a mountain in front of me glittering with a golden glow , from the early sunlight . when sun light falls at an angle at fresh snow of the night , it shows that golden illumination and i rushed to the tent to take out Nikon F50 and clicked a few shots with my freezing numb fingers - but the photograph could never capture the aesthetics of the magnificent scene.

I have conducted many soul searching solo treks into the hidden Uttaranchal Himalayas , traversing glaciers and boulders after boulders into the salvation offered by the mystic heights of 5000 meters above sea level. Now I have retired the analogue Nikon and embraced the digital possibilities of 3CCD JVC Everio - my new companion.