Mount Bonnell
3800 Mount Bonnell Road
Austin, Texas
This weekend (Feb 15 2003) we (Jayaprakash & Prashanth Hallur) had been to Mount Bonnell located in Austin, Texas, U.S, a natural paradise on earth. As the name indicates Mount bonnell is a place in the mountains. From atop Mount Bonnell you could see the river (Colorado River) winding through the Hill Country. It is supposed to be over 700 feet above sea level, a natural limestone formation standing about 200 feet above the surrounding area.
The Drive to Mount bonnell itself was very exciting, the drive started from our suite in the heart of the city with highways and flyovers surrounding it. We left our suite around 3:00pm, we had the Austin Map to guide us, and it is around 20 mins drive to Mount Bonnell. After around 10 mins of driving through the Austin weekend traffic, we hit the road leading to the Mt Bonnell; the traffic and straight roads gave way to dense vegetation and winding roads.
We used to have the glimpse of the green tree topped mountains now and then, at one point when we turned a winding road, instantly the steep mountain covered with ever green trees loomed in front of us, there were houses constructed cunningly on the ledges of this mountain, just the place for any nature lover. As the winding road led into mountains the view got better and better, we were climbing the mountain now, as we turned another winding road, we got a glimpse of gleaming water, now we were around 200 feet above the surrounding area.
At one point, the vegetation on the right side cleared and we could see the river almost 200 feet below us and on the left side was the green mountain with houses hanging here and there. We parked our car and climbed the final 10mts to the side of the mountain, as we reached the side we saw one the magnificent views of the lifetime, believe me guys if I say it is a natural paradise on earth, I won't be wrong, no words can describe the view better, and Let me try my best to put the view in words.
View Description: "On my right was the mountain rising above me with wooden houses on the ledges, 200 feet below us was the flowing river, on either side of the river were houses, they were like palaces, the houses was so magnificently constructed, every house had a Pier leading into the river, on the far side of the river was a hanging bridge and behind the houses was again the steep tree covered mountains ................ that is all my eyes could capture"
For a second I felt god has betrayed me by providing only two eyes. For the first time I believed what we studied in our history books that the "Civilization starts on the river side".
As we trekked along the mountainside, the view never ended it only got better; it never stopped to loose our attention. There was one house on the river side that caught our attention, the story about this house is that it belongs to a World Cyclist champion, and it seems that at point in his career he broke his leg in an accident, but that didn't stop him from cycling, he practiced hard again and went on win the World Championship for the second time, an inspiring story at an inspiring place.
We reached the Top point on the Mountain side, from here we could see the Downtown Austin (The state capitol, The football stadium and other sky scrappers), the river, the houses on either side of the river, the bridge, mountains on either side of the river, the view for breath taking...You have to see it to believe it, words are betraying me.
After spending some time we walked back the way we came treating our eyes with the view again. All along the path we have tried to capture the view in our camera, hoping to show you guys some day, guys that ends our trip to Mount bonnell.
3800 Mount Bonnell Road
Austin, Texas
This weekend (Feb 15 2003) we (Jayaprakash & Prashanth Hallur) had been to Mount Bonnell located in Austin, Texas, U.S, a natural paradise on earth. As the name indicates Mount bonnell is a place in the mountains. From atop Mount Bonnell you could see the river (Colorado River) winding through the Hill Country. It is supposed to be over 700 feet above sea level, a natural limestone formation standing about 200 feet above the surrounding area.
The Drive to Mount bonnell itself was very exciting, the drive started from our suite in the heart of the city with highways and flyovers surrounding it. We left our suite around 3:00pm, we had the Austin Map to guide us, and it is around 20 mins drive to Mount Bonnell. After around 10 mins of driving through the Austin weekend traffic, we hit the road leading to the Mt Bonnell; the traffic and straight roads gave way to dense vegetation and winding roads.
We used to have the glimpse of the green tree topped mountains now and then, at one point when we turned a winding road, instantly the steep mountain covered with ever green trees loomed in front of us, there were houses constructed cunningly on the ledges of this mountain, just the place for any nature lover. As the winding road led into mountains the view got better and better, we were climbing the mountain now, as we turned another winding road, we got a glimpse of gleaming water, now we were around 200 feet above the surrounding area.
At one point, the vegetation on the right side cleared and we could see the river almost 200 feet below us and on the left side was the green mountain with houses hanging here and there. We parked our car and climbed the final 10mts to the side of the mountain, as we reached the side we saw one the magnificent views of the lifetime, believe me guys if I say it is a natural paradise on earth, I won't be wrong, no words can describe the view better, and Let me try my best to put the view in words.
View Description: "On my right was the mountain rising above me with wooden houses on the ledges, 200 feet below us was the flowing river, on either side of the river were houses, they were like palaces, the houses was so magnificently constructed, every house had a Pier leading into the river, on the far side of the river was a hanging bridge and behind the houses was again the steep tree covered mountains ................ that is all my eyes could capture"
For a second I felt god has betrayed me by providing only two eyes. For the first time I believed what we studied in our history books that the "Civilization starts on the river side".
As we trekked along the mountainside, the view never ended it only got better; it never stopped to loose our attention. There was one house on the river side that caught our attention, the story about this house is that it belongs to a World Cyclist champion, and it seems that at point in his career he broke his leg in an accident, but that didn't stop him from cycling, he practiced hard again and went on win the World Championship for the second time, an inspiring story at an inspiring place.
We reached the Top point on the Mountain side, from here we could see the Downtown Austin (The state capitol, The football stadium and other sky scrappers), the river, the houses on either side of the river, the bridge, mountains on either side of the river, the view for breath taking...You have to see it to believe it, words are betraying me.
After spending some time we walked back the way we came treating our eyes with the view again. All along the path we have tried to capture the view in our camera, hoping to show you guys some day, guys that ends our trip to Mount bonnell.
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