During my recent trip to Uttarakhand , I was faced with a problem I had never encountered before. We were passing through Delhi, but we had hardly any time in the city. On earlier visits when I have had to change trains/flights at Delhi, I have always arrived in the morning and left again at night, visiting relatives in between. This time, I was arriving in the city at night, and leaving again early in the morning. There was hardly any time to visit people. I would only have a couple of hours with them before I’d have to leave again. For the first time, we considered booking a hotel, but there again, we were hesitant about the actual hotels, the costs involved, and the logistics of getting from the airport to the railway station and then back again from the station to the airport. That’s when we remembered reading something about a corporate-managed lounge at Delhi station. We soon figured out that we could book online and pay by the hour. Besides, we also learnt that there wasn’t ju
Looking back, collating the images from my summer trip, I realized that we had seen many flowers, and most of them were red!! Here, take a look -
I saw these two flowers in the resort in Bangalore where I attended a wedding. Is it any surprise that I clicked them instead of paying attention to the ceremonies?
These two were abundant in the compound of our hotel at Wayanad. It was impossible, not to click them!
As to this one, it stood out proudly, the only splash of colour, in an otherwise green landscape, at the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary Visitors Enclosure!
Beautiful, aren't they? And with such interesting names too!!!
P.S. Many thanks to Flowers of India for helping me identify them!
Red Passion Flower - can you see a bee buzzing in there? |
Red Ginger |
Lobster Claw or Hanging Heliconia |
Flamingo Flower |
Blood Lily |
Beautiful, aren't they? And with such interesting names too!!!
P.S. Many thanks to Flowers of India for helping me identify them!
Beautiful collection.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mridula!!!
DeleteNice clicks, Anu. Never seen a red passion flower and red ginger flower.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bindhu! I hadnt seen these either! had to search to get the names too :D
DeleteAwesome...
ReplyDeleteReally nice collection,
Thanks Sujit!
DeleteThese are lovely!
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