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Windmills of the Gods

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Thinking about it now, the most interesting part of my backpacking trip through tirumala was the trip down the hill; from the valley housing the temple all the way to the township below. Took me all of 3 + hours, trudging with my backpack with the sun shining on my recently inaugurated bald pate. It was quite a comfortable walk down actually, listening to the birds and the devotees trudging up the hill road uttering “govinda govinda”. The view was quite expectedly magnificent, the valley outlined in the sunshine, the mottled greens of the forests hugging the stone cliffs swaying in the breeze, quite a tranquil affair from the noisy hill top i had just left behind… Now what i didn’t know was that this place also housed a windmill farm, i guess that’s what they were; huge gigantic windmills, white in color positioned on top of the hills; moving slowly at their own lazy pace. Unmindful of the chaotic world around them. Glad to know at least some things in this world don’t have to abide by