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The arboreal vegetation of this country is beautiful with its plethora of natural flora and fauna. The mountains provide the perfect backdrop for some excellent camera shots. And it’s quite perfect that it has been used to build an excellent brand for the country by so many travel bloggers around.

Being amidst nature is known to make so many buoyant including myself. And come to think of it, I had initially been told that it would be a mistake to come here as some tourists had found things to be quite difficult. It instead turned out to be what I would call – a ‘beautiful mistake’.

Linking to Ragtag Daily Prompt: Arborial, Fandango One Word Challenge: Buoyant, Your Daily Word Prompt: Brand, Sunday Writing Prompt: Beautiful Mistake

Flight

By transitionofthoughts

On July 29, 2020

In dVerse Challenge, Haibun, Poetry

At first, she was scared that the weight of her

wings and gravity would make it painful

to fly but her mother calmed her down.

Off she went flying over the mountains and

the sea discovering a new world which

was both beautiful and threatening.

With time she started to enjoy flying be it

alone or in a flock so much so that

waited to fly off each day everyday.

Linking to dVerse Poetics: Flights of Fancy

Oman

By transitionofthoughts

On April 29, 2020

In dVerse Challenge, Poetry

Where the calm sea meets the shore,

Where the rocky mountains rise in unison,

Where the summers bring heat & humidity

While the winters bring much needed rain and cool winds,

Where hospitality of the people knows no bounds,

Where natural and historical beauty has been maintained hand in hand with modernity,

Where the road trips rank up there with some of the best in the world,

Where sipping Qahwa with dates is considered a delight,

Where olden traditions and modernity blend seamlessly,

Oman is where beauty has an address.

Linking to dVerse challenge: take me with you

Life by the window seat

By transitionofthoughts

On September 5, 2017

In My thots and scribbles

Sometimes it makes you lose yourself amidst the clouds.

Sometimes it takes you to lush green fields and valleys.

Sometimes it takes you to mountains far and beyond.

Sometimes it gives you a sneak peak of the coastline.

Sometimes you experience the day and a lot of light all around while at other times its the night and only the loneliness and the darkness that sticks around with you.

Sometimes you see the snowy winter while at others times you feel the hot summer or the monsoons.

Sometimes it takes you to a world you have only dreamt of.

Sometimes it makes you forget your emotions and brings a smile on your face.

Sometimes it makes you think of your troubles and brings a tear to your eyes.

Life by the window seat is sure to give you all these experiences and more.

Linking to #MyFriendAlexa

Book Review – Facing Up by Bear Grylls

By transitionofthoughts

On January 7, 2017

In Book Review

Bear Grylls is regarded as one of the youngest Britons to climb Everest at the age of 23. Over the years since then, he has gone on to cross the North Atlantic in an open inflatable boat, led an expedition to one of the remotest unclimbed peaks in Antarctica and gone para-motoring over the Himalayas.

Facing Up: A remarkable journey to the summit of Mount Everest is his first book. Does it work? Let’s check it out.

The blurb goes like this:

At the age of twenty – three, Bear Grylls became the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Having suffered a broken back only two years before in a freefall parachuting accident, he overcame incredible odds, not to mention great hardship and danger, to reach the top of the world’s highest mountain.

Facing Up is the story of his adventure, his courage and humour, his friendship and faith.

Microblog Mondays: Bhutan’s journey to becoming carbon negative

By transitionofthoughts

On August 30, 2016

In Microblog Mondays, My thots and scribbles

Bhutan – The mysterious kingdom

Source: https://www.vjv.com/media/314861/bhutan-punakh-monastery.jpg

Bhutan is a tiny mountainous country landlocked far away in the Himalayas. Aided by it’s expensive visa policy for most tourists, Bhutan has largely stayed away from excessive commercialization in the name of tourism and has thus kept it’s mysterious aura intact.

72% of the country is covered in forests and this has helped it become a carbon sink rather than a carbon polluter. While it’s trees can absorb about 6 million tons of carbon per year, Bhutan only produces 1.5 million tons of carbon annually. Another key factor in helping it become carbon negative is importance given to Gross National Happiness (GNH) rather than Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

As part of GNH, one of the key initiatives was the pledge to not let forest cover go below 60%, ban logging and also encourage the use of hydroelectric power and other renewable energy sources. While this started off as a project to becoming carbon neutral, today Bhutan stands out as the only country in the world which is carbon negative. Moreover, GNH has been adopted into happiness surveys and reports in many other parts of the world.

Linking to Microblog Mondays

Six word story: Oman #AtoZChallenge

By transitionofthoughts

On April 18, 2016

In AtoZChallenge 2016, Six Word Story, Uncategorized

Sultanate of Oman – The jewel of Arabia

Source: https://images.trvl-media.com/hotels/2000000/

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An epitome of

peace and tranquillity.

I am participating in the A to Z challenge in April and the theme I have chosen is Micro-fiction.

100 word fiction: That rainy night..

By transitionofthoughts

On October 17, 2015

In 100 word fiction

The rainy night..

“If I don’t leave tonight, I wouldn’t be able to make it to the conference tomorrow.”

Though it was raining heavily, he decided to drive down much against his family’s wishes to wait till the next morning. The highway surrounded by mountains was prone to getting dangerous from landslides and other accidents during poor weather. But he was always up for challenges.

When he didn’t call the next morning, his parents filed a missing complaint at the police station. His body was found a few days later far away from his car which seemed to have fallen down a cliff.

Written for the photo prompt and you can read the other entries here.

This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.

Linking to NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month – October – My post no 3 for this month.

Oman Diaries: The journey to Jebel Shams

By transitionofthoughts

On November 8, 2014

In Oman Diaries, Travel

On the way..

Rugged mountains, smooth winding roads, chilly breeze and a Land Cruiser Prado to boot – The ride to Jebel Shams was an adventure in every way. Located about 2-3 hours by road from Muscat – the capital of Sultanate of Oman and an hour away from the town of Nizwa, Jebel Shams (Sun Mountain) is the tallest point in the Hajar Mountains and at a height of more than 3000m, it is regarded as the tallest point in eastern Arabia. The beautiful village of Al Hamra stands at the base of this mountain peak.

The winding roads uphill

Though its said that the journey is more important than the destination, in the case of Jebel Shams, both the journey to the top and the views from the top are nothing short of spectacular. As our driver cum guide Majid drove up the winding roads, we observed that the temperature fell from around 30 degrees to just about 12 degrees.

We move further into mountainous territory

In a matter of about 25 minutes, the heat was replaced by chilly winds hitting all our faces.

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