Park with a view

Here's a pretty park in Dehradun with a lovely view of the Himalya.

In this monsoon season, everything is green green.  Even the walls.
Growing, though, is a good thing.

Mountain road

There's a road up into the mountains where my friends live that takes eight to ten hours to drive.

It's a beautiful view along the way:  mountains, valleys, rivers, waterfalls.

Before I left to start on the journey to her home, my friend described the road like this:  "First, there are 3 to 4 hours of winding, mountain roads.  Then there are 3 to 4 hours of nice, smooth roads.  Then there are 2 to 3 hours of terror."

Okay, I thought as we drove along, winding roads--check.  Not too bad.  No car sickness.

Smooth roads--check.  Not bad, either.

Terror?  She must be exaggerating to over-prepare me, right?  This isn't so bad.

Well, then I saw what she was talking about.
Construction along the road doesn't stop the traffic from going through--the mountain road is the only way through, so through we must go.

Some day maybe the construction will all be finished.
Maybe.
And it's a beautiful drive if you ever have opportunity to travel it.

From the airplane window

There's a pretty good view of the Himalya out the window of the airplane as it flies over.

Especially this time of year when even the lower peaks are snow covered.

The view

There are some nice sights on my way to teach every day.

Views of mountains and trees.

But this is not one of the nicer views I also walk past.