{"id":323,"date":"2008-05-17T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiatravelblogarun.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/17\/photo-essay-lakes-streams-waterfalls-rivers-sea\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T04:08:31","slug":"photo-essay-lakes-stream-rivers-sea_17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/photo-essay-lakes-stream-rivers-sea_17.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo Essay: Lakes, Streams, Waterfalls, Rivers, Sea,.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water bodies have a charm that pulls them to me intently. I can spend endless hours sitting on a rock, dipping my legs into the gentle flow of the river. The sight of a clean and pleasing lake or a river fills me with an urge to get into it for a swim, or to sit on its bank and while away my time. Sound of waves in a lonely beach after sunset, or song of a river or waterfall give me a pleasure that I can&#8217;t describe. Would I have a choice, I would live next to a river, not too far away from the sea and go swimming the first thing every morning. Some images of the magic of water &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/jog_falls_top_view.jpg\" alt=\"Jog Falls\" \/><br \/>\nAn unusual view of a section of <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/drive-in-rains-jog-falls-karwar-kali.html\">Jog Falls<\/a> &#8211; India&#8217;s tallest Waterfall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/landscape_corbett4.jpg\" alt=\"Corbett National Park\" \/><br \/>\nRamanganga flows quietly on a cold winter morning in <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/compilation-of-posts-on-corbett.html\">Corbett National Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/beach_kappad3_small.jpg\" alt=\"Kappad Beach\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/from-wayanad-to-kozhikode-and-kappad.html\">Kappad beach<\/a> near Kozhikode, in North Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelblog.paintedstork.com\/image\/charmadi_valley_stream.jpg\" alt=\"Charmadi\" \/><br \/>\nA nondescript stream near <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/monsoon-time.html\">Chikmaglur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mahakoota_3.jpg\" alt=\"Mahakoota\" \/><br \/>\nA small pond with fresh and clean water from a spring in <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/mahakoota.html\">Mahakoota<\/a>, a small temple village.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelblog.paintedstork.com\/image\/mm1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Muthyala Maduvu\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/muthyala-madu-waterfall-near-bangalore.html\">Muthyala Madu<\/a>, a small waterfall that comes alive in the rainy seasons, just outside Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/gokarna_beach.jpg\" alt=\"Gokarna beach\" \/><br \/>\nLong and empty beach at <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/long-weekend-gokarna-i.html\">Gokarna<\/a>, a small town in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/may08\/munnar_matupatty.jpg\" alt=\"Matupatty Dam, Munnar\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/hill-stations-of-south-india.html\">Mattupetty Dam<\/a>, Munnar, Kerala<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/image\/himalayas\/samiti.jpg\" alt=\"Kanchenjunga National Park\" \/><br \/>\nSamiti Lake is a picture published often here. At almost 14,000 feet near <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/sikkim-adventure-trekking-to-gochela.html\">Goecha La<\/a>, Kanchenjunga National Park, Sikkim.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/mar08\/hirekolale.jpg\" alt=\"Ayyanakere, chickmaglur\" \/><br \/>\nHirekolale Lake, Chikmaglur.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/apr08\/chandratal_496.jpg\" alt=\"Chandratal Lake\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/images-batal-and-chandratal.html\">Chandratal Lake<\/a>, Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/may08\/goecha_la.jpg\" alt=\"Goecha la\" \/><br \/>\nA frozen lake at <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/sikkim-adventure-trekking-to-gochela.html\">Goecha la<\/a>, Kanchenjunga National Park, Sikkim.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/gaganachukki_1.jpg\" alt=\"Gaganachukki, Shivanasamudra\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/shivanasamudra-gaganachukki-and.html\">Shivanasamudra<\/a> Waterfall, Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/hampi_coracles.jpg\" alt=\"Coracles in Hampi\" \/><br \/>\nTungabhadra River at <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/drive-to-hampi.html\">Hampi<\/a>, Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/image\/apr08\/batal_300.jpg\" alt=\"Batal, Lahaul and Spiti\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/images-batal-and-chandratal.html\">Chandra River<\/a>, Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelblog.paintedstork.com\/image\/ram_jhula.jpg\" alt=\"Ram Jhula\" \/><br \/>\nAnd finally, Ganga at <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/compilation-of-posts-on-rishikesh.html\">Rishikesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water bodies have a charm that pulls them to me intently. I can spend endless hours sitting on a rock, dipping my legs into the gentle flow of the river. The sight of a clean and pleasing lake or a river fills me with an urge to get into it for a swim, or to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[157,1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-uncategorized","tag-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-5d","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}