Discoveries on the Trail

Valencia oranges, Spanish rose’s and flamenco,
girls dancing in their stiletto.
This is all we know of Spain,
but visiting the country was no less than igniting a flame.
Gaudi’s architecture was dazzling,
but isn’t the Taj Mahal any less baffling.


Rocky Mountaineer train touring the Canadian Rockies seems like a dream,
passing through the mountains like a beam.
The land of bears, moose and elks surviving in the gruesome cold,
in autumn or winter Canada dose look like it’s made of gold.
But did you sit in any of the Mountain Railways of India,
each journey through them is like the unfurling of an Encyclopaedia.


Oh! The Dolomites in Italy, how massive they are and what a beauty,
holding several skiing contests and standing strong as if it is it’s duty.
The Venetian canals, Roman history, Cathedrals of Milan,
fashion and leather bedazzling the streets of Florence.
But isn’t there vogue in every city of India,
Kalamkari, Pichwai, Bandhani, variety and patterns that can lead to a happy hysteria.


Casinos at Vegas, Disneyland in Orlando,
these are the best places like a choir has it’s Suprano.
The geysers at Yellowstone, the sequoias at Yosemite,
these are magnificent National parks which save the environment like doing charity.
But have you been to Gir or even Pench where Mr. Rudyard Kipling took inspirations,
wrote The Jungle Book, influencing all the next generations.