What makes it special for you?

After a long time, I got an opportunity to visit a very special place in my home town, a natural treadmill in the mountains filled with lush green, with some memories from three decades back. My friend regularly goes for walk at this place and after repeated requests, I decided to join him in the morning, instead of going to play football.

At the start of the road this small shop shows the dedication of this old man who opens his shop at 5'o clock in the morning without fail - a smiling face irrespective of what he earns made us stop for a while and talk to him.

The dense forest on both sides of the road makes it a unique attraction for all the health conscious people who prefer this place for jogging.

Couple of boys holding tender coconuts who did not want to show up their face - freebies collected from the jungle, an extra bonus of jogging.

A blissful walk to the top we did not feel any exhaustion, so went further down on the other side and look at the ambience - you won't get a place like this anywhere in city.

Came back and stopped at this cute mini temple, that has been established in recent years, on the peak of this small mountain.

So what makes this place unique bearing some fun memories ? This is the place where the first water supply project of the city near to my native was started five decades back. Back in our twenties we would often go to a village on the other side to play cricket. Because of scarcity, not all had bicycles, so three of us would go on a bicycle and as it was difficult to drive carrying three people, the person sitting on the back would also put his leg to drive the bicycle - we called it double pedaling then. Anyone remembers that ? Probably something that only our generation enjoyed last, the famous Generation X. And the person sitting in front, has to take charge if the driver wants to rest, otherwise he will be dropped midway - so much fun in those simple things.

Then after few years, a beer factory was established on the base of the mountain because villagers protested setting it up near the village. And then we stopped going there, because of the fear that, someone will presume we are going to beer factory and will tell our parents. That was the kind of ethics we were grown up with - reminding those times brought back a nice memory back - how innocent and well administered we were!!

The water treatment plan has been defunct and closed.

Coming back, this beautiful pathway caught our attention and we extended our walk to the other side.

A person choosing a perfect place for meditation.

The government has declared this as an Industrial zone and someone has acquired a massive area setting up a beautiful house in the front. We decided to return from there as I was heartbroken - they should have set up something environment friendly instead. Humanity is the biggest destroyer of nature.

An ancient building being restored by the government but then lying abandoned - they should have leveraged the beautiful ambience to build something better attracting public.

And our stop comes - my friend told me you have good stamina - come on, exercise is the top priority of my daily routine, I can go again and come back :)

This post in response to the The Silverbloggers Chronicles - Prompt #03

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