Dear Friends,I have so much to relate to you and it is so apt that I am writing this for the Travel and Adventure theme. I had a grand adventure when I went on a trip to Assam and Meghalaya recently. I have to mention the food was yummy throughout. On the safaris into Kaziranga, apart from the one-horned rhinoceros and elephants, we spotted many, many birds. Of particular delight to me was spotting the Great Hornbill. The other highlight was viewing great stretches of grasslands through my binoculars from the Donga Watchtower across the Brahmaputra, where rhinos, wild buffaloes, hog deer, swamp deer, and wild boar all grazed together, at peace. I have not seen a more serene sight in the wild and I hope we can all do our bit to preserve it for generations to come. The days in the wild were cool and pleasant, like inhaling large gulps of oxygen or eating fresh, chilled strawberries  While I found the Assam landscape similar to Kerala’s, the vegetation changed to bamboo, large ferns and thick forests as we wound our way up to Meghalaya. We reached Shillong in the late evening and were delighted by this beautifully-lit hill town, like a fairy hill, with its pretty houses and warm people. In Cherrapunjee or Sohra yes, the second-wettest place on Earth, we trekked to the beautiful Double-Decker Living Roots bridges, formed of entwining roots of trees on opposite banks over 2000 steps going down!. What I liked best in Mawlynnong where a board proclaims it as the cleanest village in Asia was going up the bamboo tower and looking across the treetops to the plains of Bangladesh in the far distance.A trip for the soul, on this journey I met many inspiring people passionate about conservation, preventing poaching and preserving the culture of the land.I had a great time. I hope you do too in the holidays to come.