#starry skies and mountaintops

[candidcondor]

I wish the world was so simple. I’m being pulled in so many directions and being forced into so many shoes that don’t fit me; I was not meant to live in a time where you must work like a slave in order for someone to have the mercy to not kill you. In a society where anyone who isn’t working like a dog is shunned and hated. I was not made for cities and jobs and money and pain. I was made to scavenge mushrooms and make focaccia from acorns and curl up with you in my bed. I want to drink lavender tea with you. I want to watch the water bubble through the nearby brook with you. I want to listen to the rain pitter patter on a tin roof with you. I was made for planting flowers and climbing trees and humming a lullaby as I walk a dirt road that started where I was and ends when I die. Let whatever life comes next be the one where I can follow hiking trails and sing pretty songs and make paths of shiny stones and chart the maps of the sky

[mikfelt]

[kits-shrine]

“Good, I’m comfortable and don't want to move,” she laughed as she snuggled closer and quickly drifted off to sleep.

Starry skies went from dark to pink as the sun rose to kiss the pair on the mountaintop.

[chandysresort]

Chandy’s Drizzle Drops: Where Luxury Meets the Misty Magic of Munnar

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Munnar, Chandy’s Drizzle Drops is more than just a place to stay—it’s an elevated experience. Surrounded by sprawling tea plantations and kissed by the cool mountain mist, this luxurious hideaway offers an exquisite blend of comfort, natural beauty, and heartfelt hospitality. If you’ve been dreaming of an escape where elegance meets serenity, this is your hilltop haven.

Unwind Above the Clouds

Whether you're planning a romantic getaway, a family adventure, or simply some much-needed solitude, Chandy’s Drizzle Drops welcomes all with thoughtfully crafted spaces. Choose from beautifully appointed suite rooms, deluxe accommodations, or luxury stays—each one designed with a perfect balance of coziness and sophistication. And the views? Simply unforgettable.

Looking for top-tier stays in Munnar? This 5-star resort brings together refined design and panoramic vistas for a stay that soothes the soul.

Dive into Calm at the Infinity Pool

A true highlight of the property is its stunning infinity pool, offering a front-row seat to Munnar’s misty mountain theater. Float above the valleys, with the sky overhead and silence all around—especially magical during sunrise or sunset. Among Munnar resorts with a pool, this one offers an ethereal experience that’s hard to match.

Reconnect at the Wellness Sanctuary

Chandy’s Drizzle Drops isn’t just a resort—it’s a wellness retreat in the hills. With a dedicated Ayurveda center and a range of rejuvenating spa therapies, it’s a peaceful refuge for those looking to recharge. Let centuries-old healing traditions and the stillness of nature work together to restore your balance and energy.

Tailored for Every Kind of Traveler

Whether you crave the warmth of a homestay vibe, the indulgence of luxury living, or a family-friendly escape, this resort delivers. Ideally located within reach of Munnar’s best-loved attractions, it’s the perfect base for exploration—and for doing absolutely nothing at all. For honeymooners, solo wanderers, and families alike, it’s one of the best places to stay in Munnar.

Why You’ll Love Chandy’s Drizzle Drops

Spectacular Setting: Perched in Munnar’s lush heartland with sweeping views of green valleys and misty peaks.

Stylish Rooms: From deluxe to suite options, every room combines plush comforts with postcard-worthy scenery.

Infinity Pool Bliss: A floating paradise among the clouds—ideal for unwinding or simply soaking in the view.

Holistic Wellness: Traditional Ayurveda treatments and soothing spa sessions to nurture mind and body.

For Every Traveler: Whether you seek peace, romance, or family fun, this versatile resort ticks every box.

From lazy afternoons with a warm cup of tea to evenings under starry skies, Chandy’s Drizzle Drops offers a stay steeped in tranquility and charm. If you're curating a list of the best resorts in Munnar—or even India—this mountaintop escape deserves a top spot. Come for the views, stay for the vibe.

[thefreedomlake]

Mountain night sky and stars: the ultimate relaxing nature experience

2024/10/09 13:45

A journey to heal your mind and body under the starry skies of the mountains

Taro was spending the night quietly on the mountaintop, surrounded by the stars shining in the mountain night sky. He had come to this place to escape from his busy life in the city. Exhausted by the daily stress, endless work , and noisy city life, he had a strong desire for a change. Please subscribe to my channel https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pw7uIShy9uo?enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Flake.muragon.com&widgetid=1

That night, the cold mountain wind gently caressed Taro's skin, and he could hear the rustling of insects in the distance. He took a deep breath and enjoyed the feeling of the clear air permeating his entire body. This moment, which he could not feel in the city, reminded him of the peace and relaxation he had almost forgotten.

As the night deepened, the stars grew brighter, and the infinite universe spread out before Taro's eyes. He was overwhelmed by the beauty , but his heart felt lighter and lighter. "I never knew there was a place where I could be soothed so easily and naturally," Taro thought, smiling unconsciously.

It felt like hours had passed, but Taro felt the time he spent on the mountain pass by in an instant. His mind and body were relaxed, and he felt lighter, like a different person. Deciding to "come back here again," he quietly left the mountain.

From then on, Taro visited the mountain regularly and enjoyed relaxing under the stars. Although his city life was still busy, the healing power of this place sustained him. His life became more balanced and calm. The starry sky of the mountain brought eternal peace to his heart.

A journey to heal your mind and body under the starry skies of the mountains

[tanadrin]

Twenty thousand years ago, my human ancestors were nomads or transhumant pastoralists, whose greatest works were the proto-cities which amounted by the standards of later centuries to glorified market-villages, many of which had a seasonal or ceremonial nature. History passed unrecorded, a torrent of silent years as the starry and mysterious skies wheeled above them. Ten thousand years ago, we had begun to look out on the cosmos and to crudely plumb its depths, but it still seemed to us a vast and inhospitable expanse, which we might never hope to cross, even if other worlds like our own did indeed lie on its most distant shores. Now, the universe as these ancients knew it seems to us strange and superstitious; we have crossed the great distances of space to visit thousands of stars and tens of thousands of smaller bodies. We have built a civilization which encompasses the descendants of dozens of distinct lineages of life, including both the accidental products of nature and the deliberate products of design. There are outposts of human beings, or their recognizable kin, not only throughout the disk of the Milky Way, but in its stellar halo, but in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, and the Saggitarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy; and, though little has been heard from that expedition so far, and little is expected for a long time yet, there are even a small group of pioneering souls who are seeking distant Andromeda, hoping to explore new frontiers there.

Yet for all that the boundaries of our knowledge have grown since we first sought to number and chart the stars, the universe hardly feels less vast. Of the four hundred billion or so stars estimated in the Milky Way, we have catalogued not quite ten percent, and many only in very general terms. We have closely surveyed far fewer. Some estimates put the number of sentient species that we have some form of contact with at around two percent of the total--and that only accounts for spacefaring races whose technological signatures would be obvious from casual observation. Just as it would be a mistake for the sailor to confuse the well-charted currents and winds and shores of their familiar domain with the whole ocean, it would be a mistake for us to think that just because we inhabit vast volumes of the universe, that we really know them well--that there are not monstrosities and wonders just below.

And we must equally observe that many of these monstrosities and wonders are not wholly alien to us: since the days of the First Flowering, when the vessels of the ancient Foundation undertook to explore the galaxy and drew humanity and her allied species in their wake, there have been at any given time far more inhabited planets and artificial habitats than any single government could hope to gather under its authority, and many have spent centuries or even millennia out of contact--due to catastrophe, forceful separation, or simply being forgotten. Many of those have, in turn, seeded new worlds on their own. It is not unknown even around stars near to other Core worlds, to find a planet inhabited by a frighteningly alien species that, on close examination, proves to be a distant descendant of Earth.

It was always an illusion, in my view, that we have ever thought a single world so well-trodden as to be completely known. After all, we are (for the most part) surface dwellers comfortable in a narrow range of conditions, who will always know little of the deepest parts of the ocean, the darkest underground caverns, or the highest and most rugged mountaintops. Nonetheless, we have often felt, when a planet has been inhabited for a few thousand years, mapped from orbit, picked over by environmental and geological surveys, that it is transformed from something strange and wondrous to something rather small and pedestrian. And some have feared that, as we grow in power and knowledge, as we visit ever more distant stars and explore ever deeper the mysteries of physics and cosmology, that we will someday reach a point where there is nothing left to discover, where all the surprise of the cosmos is gone, where the universe has lost its mysterious savor.

I have no such fear. If anything, I fear the opposite: that the really knowable part of the universe will always be small, that we shall always be, in some fundamental sense, like my ancient ancestors who huddled around the fire for fear of the dark, staring up uncomprehending at the stars.

--Akalos Sengi, on the occasion of the opening of the Great Library at Tau Ceti e (JD 610097)

[sloshed-cinema]

Summit of the Gods [Le Sommet des dieux] (2021)

There are a lot of things humans do which defy explanation, and mountaineering is somewhere in the upper echelons of that list.  It’s dangerous, requiring extensive risk of life and limb, and even the best prepared can fall victim to a freak accident or changing weather.  Success drives a sort of high, fuels a craving.  You beat the odds, were the first or the fastest or the most skilled.  Can you do it again?  Push yourself past your earlier limits and try.  Or die.  The central figure of this film, mountaineer Habu Joji, knows this intimately.  But the film pits him against struggle after struggle, watching him fail and yet keep pushing on.  A skilled climber, he nevertheless fails to secure the widespread acclaim and recognition of his peers such as mountain-climbing celebrity Inoué.  Habu ends up selling goods in the camping store which carries items sponsoring this mountaineer.  Habu courts failure on the mountainside, losing the overeager Buntaro in an accident the more experienced climber was unable to avert or resolve, and suffering deeply from frostbite himself on the side of a peak in the Alps.  Yet his singular drive remains, a suicidal one perhaps, but one that is all he knows.

Mountaineering is inherently dangerous, we are told time and again.  But the animation emphasizes this truth as well.  Every crampon shift, each choice in placement of pitons bears a risk.  Rope can fray, a life suspended by a length of cord.  Snow shifts and rumbles ominously.  Danger is emphasized through freeze-frame time ramps and nightmarish sequences of oxygen deprivation and panic.  But there’s also beauty to be found in an alpine sunset or the vast expanse of star-studded space arching overhead as you pee outside your tent.

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says ‘Mallory’.

A mountain peak gets named.

A figure from Joji’s past gets interviewed.

Starry skies.

BIG DRINK

YAKS!

Someone reaches a mountaintop.

Sounds of snow shifting on Everest.

[justwarcraftstuff]

[Image Description: Two World of Warcraft screenshots of a starry night sky. The first screenshot has a colorful aurora in the left corner, touching clouds that gather on the edge of the sky, and the other has a sheer icy mountainside riding up toward the stars. The second has more mountaintops in frame, with tall towers rising in the distance and framed by the aurora and gray clouds. End Description.]

While I haven’t yet seen a Time Lost Proto Drake, the views while you fly the skies searching for it aren’t so bad!

[authoressskr]

I was tagged by @nobodys-baby-now to post pictures of my lock screen, my home screen, and the last song I was listening to. My lock screen is my nephew: Noodle. Home screen is some mountaintop with flowers and very starry skies - ignore the shitload of emails please. And the last song I listened to was Girls Like You by Maroon 5 ft Cardi B. @unleashthemidnight @clockworkmorningglory @ourloveisforthelovely @keepingcalmisoverratedgoddamnit @whinywingedwinchester @room-with-a-cat @rowdyhooliganism @thewhiterabbit42 @blondecoffeecake @crowleys-poppet-queen-of-assgard

[erikacousland]

Telescopes and star trails at Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile © Matteo Omied/Alamy

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Featured on Bing May 15, 2021

Happy Astronomy Day! No, that's not a downpour of lightsabers—but it's no typical night sky either. Stargazing here at Paranal Observatory, on a mountaintop in Chile's desolate Atacama Desert, you'll get one of the clearest possible naked-eye views of the southern skies. This 'lightsaber' effect comes from the photo's long exposure: What we're seeing is these stars' paths as they track across the night sky due to our planet's rotation. Colour differences in stars are generally visible to the naked eye, so remember this next time you go stargazing: The chilliest stars (around 2,700 degrees Celsius) appear red, while the hottest (tens of thousands of degrees) appear blue or nearly white.

What about those structures beneath the starry sky? They're three of the eight telescopes making up the Very Large Telescope (VLT), an aptly named project of the European Southern Observatory. Together the telescopes compose photographs of astronomically fine focus: If you were to drive a car on the surface of the moon (which we don't advise trying), the VLT could snap a crystal-clear shot of your headlights.

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Featured on Bing May 15, 2021

Happy Astronomy Day! No, that's not a downpour of lightsabers—but it's no typical night sky either. Stargazing here at Paranal Observatory, on a mountaintop in Chile's desolate Atacama Desert, you'll get one of the clearest possible naked-eye views of the southern skies. This 'lightsaber' effect comes from the photo's long exposure: What we're seeing is these stars' paths as they track across the night sky due to our planet's rotation. The dazzling colors indicate temperature, from chilly red (5,000-ish degrees Fahrenheit) to balmy blue (temps in the tens of thousands).

What about those structures beneath the starry sky? They're three of the eight telescopes making up the Very Large Telescope, an aptly named project of the European Southern Observatory. Together the telescopes compose photographs of astronomically fine focus: If you were to drive a car on the surface of the moon (which we don't advise trying), the VLT could snap a crystal-clear shot of your headlights.

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Featured on Bing 15 May 2021

Blazing trails across the night sky No, that's not a downpour of lightsabers - but it's no typical night sky either. Stargazing here at Paranal Observatory, on a mountaintop in Chile's desolate Atacama Desert, you'll get one of the clearest possible naked-eye views of the southern skies. This 'lightsaber' effect comes from the photo's long exposure: What we're seeing is these stars' paths tracking across the night sky as our planet rotates. The dazzling colours indicate temperature, the chilliest stars (around 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit or 2,760 Celsius) appear red, while the hottest (tens of thousands of degrees) appear blue or nearly white.

What about those structures beneath the starry sky? They're three of the eight telescopes making up the Very Large Telescope, an aptly named project of the European Southern Observatory. Together the telescopes produce photographs of astronomically fine focus: If you were to drive a car on the surface of the Moon (which we don't advise trying), the VLT could snap a crystal-clear shot of your headlights.

[swords-and-songbirds]

I made a fic! It’s also posted on Ao3, but I need to change my name on there.

Phil calls to the stars for a son he never thought would come home.

The wind cries, calling of your return. I stand on the cloud-stained cliffside to watch the return of the son I never thought would come home. You are different from all those years ago. I remember you had left like the southern winds, telling of adventures you had yet to have, a glitter in your eye and an energy that could not be disabled here on the mountaintop. 

I had longed for your return for years, and here you were. My son was home. But something was terribly wrong. You were not familiar. Gaze haunted, soul ragged, you scaled the mountain without the spark turned flame that you had kindled for years. It is gone now. How, I couldn't know. Extinguished, burnt out, it didn’t matter. Nothing could have prepared me for the way your voice had discarded everything it had once held. The passion and hope and joy in the parchment of the letters you had sent me were gone. I pondered if your letters held any truth, written to cater to my worries. The thought made my stomach churn.

 I barely heard the words that fell from your mouth. Snow tumbled around us as I led you into your home. The winds danced around us as quiet filled the space. Careful talk slowly came between us. By the time your tale was over, the sun had slipped from the sky, a full moon taking its place. Every piece of your story stabbed my heart like broken glass. We looked to the sky together, and I whispered a promise. A promise to the starry skies that had wronged you, torn away your flame and laughed. You would never be the same. But neither would they. I would make sure of it.

[backpackerbill]

Thinking-Geezers - WHAT Am I?

Thinking-Geezers – WHAT Am I?

A Wide Wide View

from a mountaintop or the open sea from a ship’s deck puts me in mind of  Wordsworth’s “Holding Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour.”

When we allow ourselves to come to the awareness of the vastness of a view from a mountain summit or of dark starry-night skies, we cannot understand it like adding two-plus-two.

if we do try to understand, reason and…

[sandriadreamin]

Dawn brushes across my face tickling my lashes waking me from dreams of yesterday. Through hazy sleep filed eyes I watch as you drift away just out of reach, to fade away with twilight's lavender kiss. I hear you whisper your sweet goodnight passing a sleepy sun raising over quiet mountaintops. I long to follow your silvery trail, to dance forever in darkens skies. Keeping your secrets hidden deep to slumber till you wake once more and carry me away in your starry skies..

[shanicebeluv]

Mountain Memory

How can you not see the pain I feel?

How can you walk past as if my smile was sincere?

I assumed you of all would see my hurt and comfort me.

I assumed you would hold me in silence and the pain would vanish.

I assumed wrong.

I’ve cried tears of joy but not nearly as many tears as the ones shed from loving you.

A pain I don’t understand.

A love I thought I knew.

Everything is a memory.

A distant thought on the mountaintops,

Waiting for me to reach the top and relive our beautiful moments again.

What a journey to make by myself for just one somebody

And if I reach the top will you be there waiting?

Or will I be alone reliving memories of our past

As tears are shed because well

I assumed wrong.

I’ve made a journey on my own

I jumped hurdles

I dodged predators

I escaped with just enough love to keep loving you

Just enough love to reach the mountains peak

I assumed we’d dance under the starry skies

I assumed we’d kiss a kiss as magical as our love

I assumed wrong

Now I’m on the top looking around and all I see is me

All I hear is the whistling wind

The chills flowing down my spine as I realize it’s only me.

A journey that took all of my heart and soul

A journey I thought we shared

A journey only one of us committed to

Now only one of us stand here.

I made an ass of myself when I assumed we’d be here together.

[adventurefriendly]

what is it?

A moment of happiness Is like watching a child play on waves Concentric curled at your toes Salt in the air tickling your senses Or like sitting atop a trunk staring into the starry skies Observing how twinkles in the night sky rhythmically dance to your heartbeat Peering into the vast reaches of space It is within these moments One realizes that there is a warmth within a peace like no other A feeling beyond our concepts and labels As if time and space sets itself into a meditative rest Leaving you a moment to peek into the universe It's wholeness falling upon your spirit Bringing us to the reality we fight for, live for, and breathe for. A happiness unreachable by force For it comes to you when you allow yourself to be met with its grace It's for these moments, I seek. In the hammocks of beaches unseen Mountaintops of islands unreachable Clouds of skies untouched And the mind of someone unbreakable.. a being of peace and love. loving oneself and the world beyond for the sake of growth and learning building themself as to be the best version of themselves to venture a life fulfilled