After breakfast, as we were leaving behind the busy city of Vishakhapatnam, our SUV began to fly on the wide roads to the Araku valley of Andhra Pradesh. The landscape was getting different and common view of the city of Vizag was replaced by green fields of cultivated lands. The resplendent surrounding was smiling with boundless beauty of bright morning. Soon after, we were through the uphill gradients with the hypnotic view of greenery near and afar with abundant frames of exquisitely beautiful landscapes. An entirely different scenario away of all atmospheric pollution, and the continuous uphill drive made it unbelievable that we were in a place, adjacent to the coast.
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| The hills with greenery,Aaraku,Andhra Pradesh |
Sometimes took a break when we noticed stacks of sugarcane were loaded on the cart and we were offered a lot but, the person smilingly refused to accept money in return, then stopped to enjoy the prepossessing view of natural landscapes and to capture the frames in digital memory, and again stopped to listen to the irresistible call of the silence, which is said to be more vocal than speech. The journey towards Araku was long but, never tiring.
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| Away of pollution and hastles,Aaraku |
Through the hilly terrain, when we reached the Borra caves, it was mid day. Some people were selling the coffee beans to the tourists at the entrance of the cave. This region of the Andhra Pradesh, with the picturesque slopes of hills and valleys are the said to be suitable for growing coffee and though not considered among the big producers of coffee beans worldwide or nationwide, but, it produces considerable amount of organically grown redolent variety of coffee called Arabica.
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| The entry to the Borra cave,Aaraku |
As we entered into the premises of the cave, it was like stepping into another world filled with eternal composure and surrounded by series of hills with unstudied natural beauty. A splash of sweet breeze on our way to the Borra caves overwhelmed my soul with extricated indolence. It was very amazing that stone tools of primitive age have been unearthed from excavations which prove the human existence of several thousand years ago or more in the cave.
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| the god of the cave,Borra Cave,Aaraku |
It was the journey on imagination to explore the shapes or sculptures of animals, human being, god, and many more, formed in the natural treasure of Stalagmites and Stalactites of the Borra caves. The process, when the mineral rich water containing calcium and other elements percolated to the cave, the minerals of the water slowly get deposited on the floor and the roof of the cave to form the columns of stalagmites and stalactites. The nature made expressive sculptures and shapes as we envisage, are formed slowly with time. The stairs took us to the darkest corner of the cave, where it could be seen the stalagmites to be venerated as nature made god Shiva. The trip was an opportunity to witness a unique art gallery with its exhibits kept in the dark and narrow passages of the cave and marvellously created in the work shop of nature.
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