During the monsoon, East Godavari district can be as beautiful as God's own country. The abundant rains transform the landscape into shades of lush green.
Your heart leaps to celebrate the vast expanses of paddy fields, grasslands, and rolling hills. Brooks sprout out of nowhere, flow merrily for a distance and disappear again into the rain-soaked ground. Wild flowers in myriad hues of azure, bashful orange, subdued lavender, blazing red and yellow explode all over the countryside. It is one huge canvas on which nature has splashed its palette. Driving on the NH 214 from the port town of Kakinada, we descend into Narsipatnam where paddy sowing was in full swing. Women singing some folk songs were in the fields working in total coordination. The men were diverting the excess rainwater from the fields into channels that seemed to stretch till the horizon.