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  Murti Part-4

It is a fine morning at Murti. We are not very early to get up today. Argha and Soumya still enjoying the winter morning under the blanket while closing their eyes. Sun has risen in the horizon already. Fog is getting clear. The morning tea is already served in our room. I am now standing outside the room with Soumendu. We are slowly sipping the tea and relishing the morning.

We are now having a leisurely stroll inside the resort compound. The morning seems very fresh and shiny. Soumendu is carrying his camera and so taking some snaps of the place. There is a dog enjoying the morning sun peacefully. I have come near the dog and expressing my solidarity with it. Soumendu is afraid of dogs. So he is standing at a distance from the dog. He is now taking a picture of me with the dog. 

A pathway inside the resort compound

We have now come out of the resort area. Now we are walking towards the bridge on the river Murti. We can see some people are commuting by bicycle or walking. Yesterday night it was a different experience.

We have now reached at the river bank. The river looks splendid in the daylight. After spending some time on the bridge we are now planning to walk on the river bed.

We are now walking on the river bed. We are wearing Hawai Chappals (slippers made of rubber). So we are walking inside the water putting them on. The water is very cold. After spending some time walking inside the water, my feet are getting frozen. Hence I am now standing on dry pebbles.

The river Murti in the shiny morning

Soumendu is taking photographs of the river and its surroundings. I am wondering how we were thrilled last night looking at the jungle on the other side of the river. It was an adventure on yesterday night. It is a leisure walk and relaxation in today morning.

Soumendu is taking a photo of me keeping the bridge in the backdrop. Now its my turn to be the photographer. So we have interchanged our positions and I am clicking the shutter. I am feeling happy with the click and so clicking for one more time but from different angle. ;)

Soumendu enjoying the flowing water

We have now walked through the riverbed quite some distance from the bridge. We have walked upstream of the river. Here we can see a metaled road on our left side (Murti villlage side) along the river. Here it is difficult to get up from the river bed as the guard wall is high and steep. So we are now going back towards the bridge.

We are now back on the road and returning to the resort. There are some dogs quarreling among themselves making high volume barks. This time Soumendu is not the only one who is afraid of the dogs.

We are now back into the resort. Other tourist groups are returning after jungle safaris in the morning. Probably most of them are coming from Gorumara National Park. We are quite saturated with the jungle safaris that we did on yesterday. So, we have skipped it for today. We have kept today's morning for relaxation. But it will not be a lazy day after all. We will move to another place after visiting few more places on this tourist circuit.

We are now inside our cottage. Soumya and Argha have got up now. We are taking bath one by one. The bathroom is quite big, probably of size 10 feet by 10 feet. The floor is made of white tiles and the walls are also white. So are the objects inside the bathroom. They are seemed newly installed and looks nice. While someone is taking bath the other persons are packing their bags. The walls of the bedroom are also white. We are standing in front of a clear wall one by one and taking photographs. We are in the making of white background passport sized photos. ;)

We have completed our breakfast and we all are ready for the next part of the trip. 
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Murti Part-3

In this winter evening we are sitting inside the room at Resort Murti. Our general conversations are going on. We are very happy to be in this gigantic (comparing to general cottages) and nice room. Soumya is telling us about a brilliant idea that has come to his mind (thanks to the egg pakoras! If you are wondering why, please read the first post on Murti). The idea is on some kind of utilization of this long open space inside this big room. Seeing Soumendu's expression about this idea on his face, Soumya quickly has changed his words to give the idea a new meaning. ;)

Our dinner is ready. We have come out of the room. There are three rooms in a row under the same shade. We are staying in the room in the middle. In front of our cottage some distance away is the dinning place. The dining place looks very nice. Its a place under a big shade with knee height boundary walls. That means all sides are open. Its a winter night and you can feel the chill sitting here. But we are getting accustomed with the chill. Our dinner is being served.

We are staying in the room in the middle

We have finished our dinner. We are now having a nice slow walk inside the resort compound. Some men from the other tourist groups are also doing so. We have joined them and have started conversations. We are planning to go outside the resort and have a stroll there. 

We are walking on the road outside the resort. There is no street light here. I am feeling an urge to go to the bridge on the river Murti. I am placing the proposal to others and Soumya got very much interested. Other people are also interested. The road is dark so somebody from us has gone into the resort to take a torch. I am feeling excited to go to the river in the night.

We are now walking towards the bridge. In the resort, we have heard that two wild elephants were present under the bridge last night. So we are thrilled. Argha probably is a bit nervous and hesitating to go there. I am trying to convince him. Seeing the eagerness and excitement in me, he is now following us. I am walking with Soumya in front. Argha and Soumendu is just behind us. The rest of the team is also coming with us.

We are walking towards the bridge on river Murti

We have now reached on the bank of the river. A vast open space is in front of us - the river bed. It is a moonlit night. We can see the riverbed - the pebbles and flowing water in the moonlight. Soumendu is trying to capture the riverbed in his camera only using the moonlight. But the camera is nothing if compared to the human eyes. Now the person having the torch switched on it and Soumendu clicked a picture of the riverbed.

The river Murti in the torchlight

We are now standing on the bridge on the river Murti. The water is flowing under the bridge and making a nice sound. Standing here, in the moonlight we can see the river coming from a distant place and going far away. We all are watching silently. The sweet sound of the flowing shallow river is making the experience mystical. We can see the jungle on the other side of the river. I am thinking if a leopard comes running from the other side of the bridge then what will happen. I am thrilled. We are depending on our faith that elephants do not board on bridges. It feels so much adventurous standing here while enjoying the enormous beauty of nature through our eyes and ears  and feeling the cool bridge through our skins. I am thanking the mother nature for providing the opportunity to have this great experience of my life.
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