when you get up in the morning the clean fresh air washes out your sleep. Where as in the night when you go out you just can’t breathe .it is all because of pollution. If I had to define pollution I would say

 Pollution is something introduced into nature that is dirty unclean or has a harmful effect. Toxic waste dumped into water is an example of pollution. It refers to the chemical substances into the environment that is injurious for human, animals and plant life. The water, air noise and other forms of pollution is one terminology is known as the pollution of echo system.
 There are many types of pollution, that are water , visual , thermal , plastic , noise , light and air
 The measures of noise pollution are
 Normal conversation level- 40 – 60 db
 Health hazard- more than 80 db is safe
 If someone just comes and shouts in your ears whaaaa you would become Heebie - jeebies Heebie-jeebies
 These unusual words are used to express a feeling of fear and being uncomfortable
 Few examples are
 Heavy traffic – 90 db
 Sound of aircraft engine – 100 – 200 db
 Now imagine your house being just next to the airport, in midnight when the flight takes off how would it feel and so people don’t generally like to stay near airport. 
 The level of air quality is
 Good 0 – 50 no risk
 Moderate 51 -100 acceptable
 Unhealthy for sensitive group 101 – 150 sensitive group experience health effects normal people don’t get affected
 Unhealthy  151 – 200  everyone may experience health effect
 Very unhealthy  201 – 300  health alert :  everyone may experience health effects
 Hazardous 301 – 500 the entire population is effected
 Impact- Over a million die prematurely every year due to air pollution , according to non profit health effects institute. Over a two million children – half of which in Delhi , have abnormalities in their lung functions , according to Delhi heart & lung institute , over the past decade air pollution has increased in India significantly. Asthma is the most common health problem faced by Indians and its accounts for more than half of health issues caused by air pollution
 After , so much info about pollution . Let’s have some ways to prevent it

 Conserve energy
 Carpool , public transportation , bike or walk wherever possible
 Keep car , boat and other engines properly tuned
 Consider gas logs instead of wood
 Reduce no. Of trips you take in your car
 Conserve electricity  

Since the lockdown kicked off, I could not go out and was getting very bored .

So, we decided to go out to places less visited. We chose places of natural beauty which wasn’t far away as we had to come back in evening.  We wanted to avoid crowded place and to maintain social distancing. We planned basic precautions like wearing mask, carrying sanitizer. We carried even food and tea from home so as to avoid contacts.

We chose the places which, we assumed, no one else would. If that would be the case, we were to find out.

Planning

5 families planned for the trip. But 2 families dropped out for different reasons, leaving 3 families in the plan.

On the D-day, 1 car tire got punctured and Ankit Uncle was left stranded in Indiranagar. At the end, 2 families went for picnic – Amar Uncle’s and ours.

The first stop – Big Banyan Tree

Imagine a tree,450 years old and spread over almost 3 acres of land – size equivalent to almost 2.5 football fields. It’s a nature’s wonder and also boasts of  open space to run, play and have fun. The tree has so many secondary branches of the tree that no one knows where the primary root is. The tree has many branches which 100 of monkeys have made their habitat. It was fun to watch those monkeys jumping on and off the branches of the gigantic tree.

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Alas, to our disappointment, the entrance to the tree park was closed – thanks to COVID-19. Nonetheless, again thanks to the same covid-19, the adjoining restaurant was closed too. The restaurant has lot of open space and the provides a comprehensive view of the tree. We stood there for some time, took snaps and enjoyed the monkey business. The most adoring was the way mummy monkey was taking care of baby monkey.

Off to second pit stop

Having been disappointed by closure of the banyan tree, we decided to go to  Savandurga. Savandurga is  a hill 60 km west of Bangalore off the Magadi road. The hill is considered to be among the largest monolith hills in Asia. The hill rises to 1226 m above mean sea level and forms a part of the Deccan plateau.

Half way through to the monolith, we saw many cars parked on roadside. There was a small hillock nearby. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius could be the term to describe the view. There was a dam nearby, river all over the place with lots of greenery and hills to rejoice the mind. Seeing the scenery, we decided to stay for a while, so we sat down and had tea, the tea was made tastier by the view we saw. Having enjoying the view for some time, we decided to move on to savandurga.

SAVANDURGA is a monolith approx.50 km away from Bangalore. It was huge. A monolith enough to exhaust a person trekking the wrong way in a min. With my dad I made a plan to go trekking there the coming weekend.

RAMNAGAR made famous by name RAMGAD in Sholay movie was our next destination. Against our expectations, there were many people visiting the place, we roamed and saw few places, sitting there we had our lunch, played football and cricket. The sun was moving towards west, sky turning light blue when we started back to home. We reached around 6.  Believe me this was an amazing trip. You people too should go