In Orissa

Yay! Finally I get to travel…after a long long hiatus.  Being in Bhubaneshwar for a while, I thought I’ll make most of the opportunity and go see Konark and Puri which were quite close by.

    I’d heard so much about the Sun Temple in Konark, all these stories about how magnificent it looked at sunrise and sunset. It was built for the Sun God after all. The sun’s rays are supposed to concentrate during sunrise, sunset and noon and cast these amazing shadows. Well, thinking I would reach Konark by sunrise (it was only 50 kims away), I asked the cab to pick me at 4 AM. As with all cabs, there was some issue and it was there to pick me up at 4.20 AM and I saw the sunrise on the way at 4.40 AM  I had no clue the sun rose so early (the east coast, yeah I figured that)!!