A Visit To The ZOO

Believe it or not, this is the ambiance of a zoo!!
The drive from the railway station to the hills takes about 3-4 hours. The difference in surrounding happens very suddenly.
The temperature.....
The weather.....
The scenery.....
Everything changes within hours. As if its a new world. While driving only, we had to put on our warm clothes. The wind gets chilly. Silence takes over, apart from occasional honking of passing cars. Sun starts the usual peek-a-boo behind the clouds and then there is this smell.
I don't know what but there is a specific smell in the mountain air. Even before the change in scenery or anything, we would always know that the mountains are close because of this smell.
It is so unique.....So earthly.
Then there are these clouds. Clouds that wash you away. As if a wave comes and takes us to another place. Even dreams envy the clouds.
Never had I imagined a zoo to be like this until I saw this one. There is no chaos.....no clatter. Silence everywhere. As if the clouds covers this place from chaos and the outside world. Even the animals are at peace here, even though caged. The ambiance does not let us feel that we are in a zoo. Its as if there is a jungle out there and we have come to see the animals in open. The flora all around also tricks the senses into thinking so.

This place has a magic that can only be sensed.

"There are more to things than meets the eye."





Location: Gangtok Zoo,Sikkim,India