You may wonder why have I used the superlative term for a color. Well, by the end of reading this blog, you surely get to know the answer because the nature tagged along this particular trip of mine was completely green and I couldn't resist embracing it.
It was the very initial stage of an 11 day trip to goa in October. Yes, I'm late in publishing about it but I have taken my sweet own time to let my readers understand how I explored the beauty of Goa. Being a person from Visakhapatnam, it was hard for me to plan a direct journey. Hence, I have decided to do a break journey by stopping at Hyderabad for two days and restarting my journey towards Goa.
That was the first time I ever traveled to Goa from Hyderabad and I was quite unaware of the route until I found the map is inexplicable green all the way. The bus route from Hyderabad involves three states altogether, Telangana, Karnataka, and Goa. Well, all three places are quite famous for their natural beauty sources from South India.
I was fortunate enough indeed to get an opportunity to explore such beauty by sleeping in a separate cabin of an air-conditioned sleeper Volvo bus. It was an additional elite aspect to appreciate the whole journey. Have you ever imagined sleeping in a bus coach, watching the huge branches of trees leaving behind while you were forwarding to embrace the consistent greenery ahead? Until and unless you witness with your naked eyes, you can never understand that imagination and I'm surely not exaggerating.
Specifically speaking my journey points are from Gachibowli, Hyderabad to Panaji, Goa. And throughout the journey, I had witnessed beautiful spots like Kalaburgi, Vijayapura, Kolhar, Bilgi, Belgaum, or Belgavi and almost all spots of South Goa from my curtained glass windows. Keeping the pickup and drop points aside of this particular journey, the mid-way that connected a few parts of Karnataka was the main journey indeed as it digested a good amount of time. So basically, the amount of time a person travels from Hyderabad to Goa is more in Karnataka.
And it was especially from midnight to late morning, and the scenic views of Early morning while going through ghat roads and forests of Karnataka were gorgeously green enough. Coincidentally, I wore an Olive green ensemble from tip to toe. So I felt as if I was camouflaging myself into the journey.
I have captured enough videos and pictures to cherish that particular journey in my life because even though if I take the same route, I wouldn't be excited like the way how I was when I journeyed for the first time. And I truly want to share it with the world and let people know about the experience of such exploration.
The main drawbacks with bus journeys are the time-consuming roadways and especially the halts people eagerly wait to unload their systems. Else, road journeys are the best. Even though I felt a bit uncomfortable traveling in initial winters in an airconditioned bus going through too many ups and downs with twists and turns.
Strictly speaking, I missed most of the journey at midnight because I was tired enough but thankfully my senses woke me up to explore the early morning scenic views where the bus took two to three halts before reaching the borders of Goa for refreshments. The green trees on either side, the black roads, and a white bus encouraged me to seize such colorful moments and I did too. I could still recall the moment when I got down from the bus to have a hot chai with smoke by standing on the side of a road watching over the cars passing by those exotic roads and feeling the fresh cold breeze from those tall trees.
Isn't it just amazing to feel such a view and to cherish it forever? Well, the Belgaum of Karnataka is truly an exotic place filled with greenery because of the forests and western ghats. The whole geography around this particular spot is full of the mountain range and forest range. Hence the road journey makes any person memorize this spot mostly.
Yes, some turns are quite dangerous on this route, especially when you enter the Ghat range while approaching the Karnataka-Goa borders. It's always better to travel safely by car or bus. As I have traveled by a well-managed bus franchise which is famous in Goa called Pablo travels, the journey was smooth and manageable. Regardless of a little scary part, those exotic green hubs make you forget all your stress and you end up enjoying every kilometer of your road journey.
Well, after I woke up in the early morning at 5 am, I couldn't close my eyelids as I was keep peeping through my window like a kid and I was spreading my arms in my cabin with fingers counting the branches of trees as I could see from the transparent glass. I felt weird though, but that's what traveling is all about. It makes you unleash every side of you and nature has the power of healing indeed. The greenery surely took my troubles for a while and made me feel excited about the upcoming trip.
And that's how I appreciated this very trip that includes a lot of greenery.