Day 29: Spooked out in Matheran

We visited Matheran a couple of years back. The OH and I conjured up so many ghost stories in Matheran just before we left on our trip, and we spooked each other silly. We had not read up much about Matheran, and were all the more spooked to find out that Matheran, in the mist and gloom of winter, looked exactly like we had thought it would in our ghost stories.

To top it all, we ‘discovered’ a school called Saraswati Vidya Mandir on one of our evening walks there, just the kind of school that you would come across in a remote hill station in an old Hindi movie. You know the types, right? There seemed to be no one around, and so we decided to enter, holding hands, our hearts thudding so loud you could hear them in the eerie silence. What’s not eerie about an abandoned school on a hill station, surrounded by fog?

This was the view that greeted us as soon as we stepped in.

I would have died there and then had a bell clanged, had a young lad peeped out from the window of a disused classroom, or had an ancient headmaster wearing a dhoti come to have a closer look at us, with a kerosene lantern held at eye level. Thankfully, none of this happened. Both of us lived to take some gorgeous pictures of the views, and to tell you people the tale today.

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For the July Photo-a-Day Challenge. The theme for today is ‘perspective‘.