Fire Waterfall

Yosemite National Park, California , USA



This park was gazetted as a national park in 1890. It is world famous for its rugged terrain, waterfall and century-old pine trees. It covers 1200 sq km and the "fire" waterfall of El Capitan is one of the most spectacular of all scenery.

The spectacular view of the waterfall is created by the reflection of sunlight hitting the falling water at a specific angle. This rare sight can only be seen at a 2-week period towards the end of Feburary. To photograph this rare event, photographers would often have to wait and endure years of patience in order to capture them. The reason is because its appearance depend on a few natural phenomenons occuring at the same time and luck.

1st, Is the formation of the waterfall - The water is formed by the melting of snow and ice at the top of the mountain. It melts between the month of December and January and by the end of February there might not have much snow left to melt.

2nd, is the specific angle of the sunray hitting the falling water - The sun's position must be exactly at a particular spot in the sky. This occur only in the month of February and at the short hours of dusk. If it is a day full of clouds or something blocking the sun, you can only take pictures of your own sorry faces on the waterfall. It coincides with the fact that the weather in the National Park at that time of the year is often volatile and unpredictable. It compounds to the difficulty of getting these pictures.

Someone did !!! and we all get to see it !!!

ISKON Krishna Lila Park

Five thousand years ago ,Gokul was the home to Krishna 's magical childhood where he performed innumerable loving pastimes. When Indra threatened
the Vrajavasis with torrential rains, blasts of thunder and lightening, and the consequent over flooding of Yamuna - all to inundate the village,
And if you were present there how would you experience all this????? And the relief the village residents felt when Krishna lifted the Govardhan
Hill and protected them!

The proposed Krishna Lila Park will give such an experience to the visitors. The main complex building will be about 360 feet tall, with a viewing gallery
at 500 ft level. This hi-tech amusement park to be constructed in Bangalore on 28 acre will be the 1st theme park in India with the quality of world
class theme parks like Disney World and Universal Studios. Already Rs 4-5 crore has been spent on the design. The project will cost Rs 350 crore. Work on theme park to take off from, Sunday Jun 20th, 2010.