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We had been on a tour to Nagarjuna Sagar, in December, last year (just 2 months back!). We visited the Sagar and then stayed at the Telangana Govt. Tourism hotel,
Haritha Vijay Vihar hotel. It was an OK hotel, but the view of the lake from there was beautiful. It had swimming pool, gym etc. You can see them in the link.
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| The hotel where we stayed. |
I and my son had a morning stroll in the garden at the backyard of the hotel. Fog was there on the lake and the atmosphere was beautiful and serene...The garden had my favourite sparrows! Some beautiful flowers also were there.
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| A type of Nandiavattai/Crape Jasmine flower! |
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| I had never seen bougainvillea flowers so closely until I saw them here! |
Then we saw these! You know how I am! I am fascinated by everything! Have a look at these!
When we saw these animals first, they were grazing the garbage, making some grunting sounds. The young ones were running here and there. But as soon as my son lifted and focused his camera, the big white and black pig was making a grunting sound and all the others stood still! As soon as he lowered the camera, they started grazing again happily, wagging their tiny tails. Again, son would focus his camera on them 'and as if the big one said 'STATUE', all of them stood still! We did this 3-4 times and then we felt sorry for them and left them alone!
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| Did the leader say 'STATUE' or 'POSE' (like humans!) |
For once, this is a small post!
Edited to add on 5.3.15: Now, it is not going to be a small post!
When I and my son were watching these pigs, we were discussing about another pig incident. (I don't like to call these poor animals as swines! It sounds very insulting!) It is not their mistake that a fever is named after them. We should not promote them by leaving wastes like these everywhere. It is long time since I have seen pigs. Now, let me write about another character of these animals!
Around 25 years back , when we were in Hosur, we had Andy, a Pomeranian with us. He used to chase a pig which had tiny piglets with her. Later on, whenever the mother crossed our house, she used to walk up the steps to our house, stand on them and grunt 5-6 times and then go off. Andy would be inside the house, barking! I used to watch the pig from our window! She was quite huge! All animals take care of their babies very well, like us humans!
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