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Hindustan Times | ByAnoushka Shankar, New Delhi
Jun 19, 2009 08:09 PM IST

A few friends and I have come on a road trip to one of my favourite places, Big Sur in California. It’s like Manali and Goa rolled into one, with winding mountain roads overlooking jagged cliffs, which frame the ocean in the most stunning way. Anoushka Shankar tells more.

A few friends and I have come on a road trip to one of my favourite places, Big Sur in California. It’s like Manali and Goa rolled into one, with winding mountain roads overlooking jagged cliffs, which frame the ocean in the most stunning way.

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As I sit on my veranda typing on my laptop, the river in front of me bubbles away, and I’m surrounded by gorgeous, ancient redwood trees. The sun is about to set over the Pacific and there are more colours in the sky than I can name. It’s paradise. Every day, we’ve been trekking the mountain ranges that border the ocean, finding stretches of private beach on which to rest before hiking some more. We’ve eaten divine food at every single meal.

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I’ve even decided I like the American version of chai and have it multiple times a day!

The town is tiny - a stretch of land along the main highway. The only directions you need to know are “north” or “south” so even a directionally-challenged girl like me can get around. I’m with three other girls and one of them is a fantastic yoga teacher, so every day we take our mats out and do yoga in the sun facing the river.

I love holidays like this; I love connecting to the earth in such a profoundly beautiful way. Everyone should step out of city life now and then to reconnect with nature. Tomorrow I leave, but I’ll try to carry this feeling back home with me.
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