We constantly keep pondering over life, we arrive on this
world crying and happiness is our goal. Happiness through various experiences..
generally thrill captivates our soul, the memories are even more lasting than
having your favourite meal. Travel is one means which releases those happy hormones
when you get to witness the beauty of nature, creation by the creator... its various
forms, be it about people, civilisations, systems, functions, art, architecture
food or anything.
Bird’s eye view of all of this, that too at my dream
destination – Switzerland!! Interlaken we arrive on 6th of August
2017.. while my friend was doing the check in formalities, I spotted brochures
of highlights of Interlaken of which I grabbed onto few of adventure
activities. Thrill started running in our nerves, transmitting waves of excitement
in our entire system. Top of the pop was two women out alone, coming from a
conservative background, in their mid forties, on an International holiday.. Heading
for an expensive adventure ride; sounded like an adventure in itself. Then it
was check check and check, to finally check on one option and dive on. To offer
on platter we had paragliding and hang-gliding. Para gliding was a bit on
economical side (that’s a comparative analysis though); hang- gliding was
expensive but something which we had never one in our life.. so that had to be
our choice and the only best option... reminding of the famous Yarana movie
where Amitabh and Amjad Khan do the same, the difference here was the women
power.
The next day was occupied with fixed itinerary, 8th
of August we fixed our time but weather at Interlaken was bad.. there were
thunderstorms hence all plans had to take a back seat, the only option was “go
take a walk” , and that’s exactly what we did!! We couldn’t DO hanggliding.
9th August was the check out date bidding goodbye
to the Swiss Alps, my wonderland... our plans were to head on to Zurich, take
glance of Rhine falls and head onto Salzburg Austria.
9 am, 9th August back to the same reception desk,
my friend and I suddenly get an idea to recheck with Bumblebee service
providers, they agreed, wow!! “Life is what happens to you while you are busy
making other plans!!!” one quote which I keep reminding myself of... we cancel
our Rhine falls agenda. Best thing in this country is, when you have a swiss
rail pass, you can float on in the country wherever you feel like, with your
own comfort.. at ease; giving you greater flexibility in your holiday. This is
what any tourist desires for...
Our Bumble bee buddies arrived!! Leaving our bags and
baggage at the reception desk, we headed on towards greater heights, sense of
achievement, excitement, bit of fear..a complete concoction of emotions running
across the streams...in the Universe inside, to explore that outside!!
Toby, my pilot and Rahul, Archana’s pilot; they briefed us
on the procedure and got us clad in the safety gears. Helmet, belts, pulleys,
hanger etc. Etc. While the briefing session was on we questioned that we could
spot very few takers on the hang-gliding whereas most of the tourists were
flying off with their parachutes. One after the other we witnessed a couple of
them taking off in front of our eyes.. while we were still waiting for the
right breeze to give that right thrust. The reply which Toby gave us was pretty
witty, “those with one ball do para-gliding and hang-gliding is opted only by
those people who have two balls.” And we both were addressed as “DIVAS” by our
pilots.. “Aha!!” we two women just tried to show our biceps and a laugh which also
helped in soothing our tensed nerves. Waiting for the breeze was also like
gathering our strength and getting accustomed and feeling one with that place,
the mountains. Uniting and letting the nature, mother nature take you in it’s
lap and give you a hug and a caress in her bosom.
Finally, the breeze was set in the right direction... get set go.. All we had to do was to give a strong run to support the pilot, give acceleration and thrust, just a few steps, after which you are set free, exactly like a bird, you get to see the world beneath, all with your own eyes, open, get to feel the breeze, comforting you while you are floating on it. Beauty, Awe, Amaze, captivating; you just want to move your head around and see as much as possible. Capture the most of moments with the cam of your eyes.. freeze those memories in your brain, your heart, which is just meant to be filled with the treasure of wonderful moments and memories which we will carry along after our journey in this planet is over..
Addded a treasure in the VENTURE called Life!! Moving towards
the goal, capturing happy more and more moments...
L to R: Kulveen, Roby, Archana and Rahul
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