Comments on: raincircle or a circle rainbow

By: Circular rainbow « Pilarrieta’s Blog

Circular rainbow « Pilarrieta’s Blog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:24:57 +0000

[...] and encountered one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced in my life: a circular rainbow! I talked to my friend Sol about it and he said that they are not called rainbows because they are [...]

By: littleindian

littleindian — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:29:49 +0000

Thanks G Elkins,
for stopping by and your comment.

From the ground we can see only the half of the real circle and have likend it to a bow. We should be calling it a ‘raincircle’ or a ‘rainring’ and not a rain’bow’.

I am glad you have seen it too, – at long last, somebody I can share my experience and feelings with.

It was such an awesome sight. I remember having a lump in my throat I was overjoyed by what I was witnessing, but also sad that I was seeing something I could not share it with my friends and family.

By: G. Elkins

G. Elkins — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:44:03 +0000

I have seen a full circle rainbow also. I was it from an airplane. It was very large and there was no shadow of a plane in the middle of it as some other people report seeing. I was starting to doubt what I had seen because I have never met anyone else who have witnessed one. Recently at church I read a the book of Revelation that that there is a rainbow that is around the throne of God. This started me looking into it, which is how I found this site.

By: little indian

little indian — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:17:05 +0000

Thanks earthie,
I wanted to share what I had seen
having it locked up in my memory seemed selfish.

When I look back, I am so glad that
I traveled before tourists went crashing in like a tsunami.

What terrorism does to humans,
tourism is doing the same to Mother Earth
Perhaps the environmental warming is her ‘global’ war against it.

By: earthpal

earthpal — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:52:57 +0000

Goodness! Lucky you again!

It doesn’t matter that you didn’t manage to get a picture, or that no-one believed you. You saw it and it’s in your memory.

By: backwhen to - khecheopalri lake « “me no big chief…

backwhen to - khecheopalri lake « “me no big chief… — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:55:43 +0000

[...] where we should have been. We were rewarded for our ‘misguided’ efforts with an amazing circular rainbow. Near day’s end, we ended up beside a lake, a lake like we had never seen [...]

By: bendtherulz

bendtherulz — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:52:58 +0000

Well entire India is becoming Touristy – I have few buddies from Mountains ( pakka pahadi) so still manage to see unexplored – pitch your tent, cook for yourself take tea in a mug and see the sun go down and paint the Himalayan range go red…
I have heard so much about daredevils of 70′s on MotorBikes…one of my friend he told me that how he went from Ludhiana – Manali- leh and stayed in villages…!
I hear and admire as resources were so limited in those days.
Hope you will accept my salute’ to your adventure spirit.

By: little indian

little indian — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:03:43 +0000

Sikkim is beautiful, but is becoming touristy.
My high altitude escapades were from 79 – 86.

I have seen only a tiny fraction of the Himalayas there are so many places I had plans to visit, but never could.
Career, job took a priority, finally ill health.

I am an avid reader of all travelogues in India, especially Himalayas.

By: bendtherulz

bendtherulz — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:17:08 +0000

Lucky You – I hope to live to tell this story on my own. Sikkim and North east regions are still not in my reach….when I was in college I always wanted to earn money to do what – Travel – these days I earn money and travel only on snatched moments…( well I should not crib much – I fairly get away still it just leaves me craving for more…)

ps – I think you got the Pot of Gold – poor me who is still waiting

By: little indian

little indian — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:02:30 +0000

I don’t even want to speculate what it was.
It wasn’t an ordinary rainbow.
It must have been something beyond our normal sensory perceptions.
Maybe you will never have an answer.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:22:28 +0000

I saw a full circle rainbow when I was only 6. My grandmother was making butter in the kitchen when someone knocked on the door. She asked me to go answer the door and when I did, there in front of me was a circular rainbow. Now I was only 6 and I did not have to look up in the sky at this rainbow. It was directly in front of me. I watched it slowly fade away and went back in the kitchen. Grandmother asked me who it was and I told her it was a rainbow. What was this? Something madea knock on the door. For years I have contemplated this. I still do and I am 53 years old.