Last of Corbett

This one's devoted to Sterling. After I was back, when I told a friend about the trip, he's like "cha, that's no way to do Corbett, you can't go stay in Sterling".

While that may be one valid view point, Sterling was really pretty, and we had such a wonderful time staying there, the mountains and the river, the monkeys, the walks, the drive...all of it.

View from the room

Rest of that mountain

After a full breakfast. Not to miss the little cat under the table.

That tiger toy behind? They use that to scare the monkeys.... though I didn't see the monkeys being too bothered.

 There's two monkeys sitting like sentinels on the roof

Afternoons were spent chilling in the balcony. Must add, dhruva got inspiration for his next film sitting there.....he spent a good one hour writing what he could see as description for place. I loved that thought. Like meta inspiration for travel :)

The trees were full of little chirping birds, could just sit there and watch and listen

Deech, enjoying the view

Yogi and Raj in the restaurant, who told us lots of their animal adventures

Resort in backdrop..and me in pose

Engrossed in her book

There was a monkey wreaking havoc in the balcony. Full kothi cheshtalu.

He picked up my half cup of coffee, and didn't seem to like the coffee so he just threw the cup off the balcony. We immediately got an sos call from the restaurant to bring in all the cups, but how ? that monkey was having so much fun he was in no mood to let us intrude  :)

By the pool.......it was way too cold to get into it

The resort at night, we were trying to find a spot to do some star gazing

All packed and ready to leave. 

This was the other side of the room, the entrance, which had a full length grill against the forest. Typical mountain architecture. Entrance is on ground floor and other side is elevated almost two floors.

And we had one scary experience too. One night, Dhruva wanted to stay in, so Diksha and I went down for dinner, and we were to send his dinner up. After we finished a leisurely dinner and we were walking up at around ten,  Diksha suddenly froze and said "sssh....listen.... there's some big animal here ma, this is no soft footfall". I heard it too, and could feel my hair stand on end, but thought it was our fear of being just the two of us,  in the dark and quiet of the night, surrounded by forest.

We come back to the room, and the waiter has just given dhruva his dinner. Then Dhruva told us that he'd rung the bell in quick succession, and when dhruva opened the door, the waiter was literally shivering saying 'sher hai idhar' ( there's a tiger here). 

And we realized that what we'd heard was indeed a tiger. That was one real chilling experience.