Words : Roma (As told to Ranjith)
Photos : Jayaprakash Payyanur

ROMANCING ADVENTURE
    ‘I fall in love with each place I am in…’
       ROMA

(Roma is a lovely young Indian actor with a huge fan following. She has many super hit movies to her credit in South Indian languages. Settled in Chennai, she is now busy moving from one film set to another and says she badly misses her adventure games.)

I am passionate about adventure games. The meandering rivers and rough currents are always tempting. I have never missed a chance to live the excitement of para-sailing, river rafting and paragliding. Trekking and mountaineering have always been my favourites. I am dangerously and passionately in love with adventure.

I have been to river rafting many a times and the most memorable of them was in Beas River. My cousins and myself had a great time in the rough waters. We started off from Kulu-Manali and moving down the river was excitement of the highest order. The tricky frothy river was in full might and gave us a real challenge.

Para sailing is an equally promising venture and my first stint at it was in Lankavi, Malaysia. A truly exciting experience you should try at least once in your life. Once, in London, I tried Paragliding too… and sashaying down with the wind and the clouds was experience extraordinaire. A few months back I had been to Vagamon in Kerala, the windy terrain with rolling hills and clear sky offers a perfect location for paragliding. Once into the global para-glider’s map, I hope, Vagamon would soon see hundreds of gliders thronging its hillocks.

Wish List

I am a lover of forests and mountains. Though I am not that familiar with the South Indian forests, I have been to many forest locations in the North India. I would love a thorough trek into the Himalayan forests and wish I could make it soon. My wish-list includes North Eastern Mountains and Tibet. North-Eastern forests and villages will never ever loose their charm and I always wish once I could spend wonderful wonderful times there.

Travelling is in my blood. I like travelling more than anything else and like to find myself at different places and among different people. I want to be a real globe trotter and I want to land in each and every country on earth.

Favourite Location!

Oh, that’s tricky. It is a pretty long love-list and frankly I can’t stick to one. Every place is exciting in one way or another. Every culture and people is different. The cool beauty of London and the neon exuberance of Singapore and the tropical magic of India can never be put under one scanner. And I fall in love with each place I am in, and excitement is everywhere.

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