@Point Magu, Santa Monica mountains

This time the boys decided for something rough, the obvious option was to head for the nearest hills for some hiking. There could'nt have been a better option than santa monica mountains, which offers a breathtaking view of Pacific. It was about an hour's drive from our place.So off we took in gautam's pickup and here's another adventure in making......


Gautam's pickup



The first view that we got of Pacific

Entrance of the park



interesting part was from where we started the height was -120 feet below sea level




Self timer does'nt always work :)






Santa Monica mountains



Is'nt that breathtaking


Flora




Indian version of cobra-Gautam


saw this interesting message on a beach
it says
Love u Toshi RIP bro



Mountain cats are very dangerous- so ppl beware



return of jumping jacks

sun setting down


shadow warrior

while driving back saw this view

@Sea World,San Diego

Day 2 of long weekend and we had nothing to do. We decided to visit sea world at San diego .We rented a car and took off during morning. San diego is about 2 hours drive from LA, since it was the long weekend and thanxx to low tire pressure we managed in 4 hours. The drive was good fun, unfortunately none of us had a license so gautam had the full pleasue of driving down.

Bamri , himanshu, me and gautam

Relaxed state of mind- Gautam




Crowd cheering for Shamu- the killer whale

Is'nt she a beauty? hey what u thinking. am talking about shamu ;)


Friendly dolphins

Hard to believe she's a killer whale huh!

i would'nt dare to do that

Some other aquatic life forms

Ocean backwaters as seen from Sea World

Siddharth's visit to LA

Some snapshots from another interesting day i had. Got to meet my school buddy Siddharth who had come to LA during the long weekend (labour day). We first went to sid's alma matar University of southern California from where he had graduated.Like a proper guide he gave me an ashima( Sid's better half) a tour of the univ. Later in the evening we drove towards the Santa Monica beach- yes its the same beach where baywatch was shot. So here are some of the highlights from the trip.....



University of Southern california

Different shades of Sid

To UCLA from USC. Can you guess what does the structure signify?? thanxx to the rivalry between both univs, its the middle finger pointing towards UCLA. interesting aint it ;)


Forbidden fruit

somehow i have to capture creatures in most of my trips ....

This is the same place where events like Miss Universe etc are hosted. Its called the shrine

Pacific coast@LA

View of coast from Pepperdine Univ

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Lights out!!