Wonderful day-Wonderful person
It was on March 6th this incident had happened. I had to attend a trek early in the morning and then was supposed to be back for lunch with the trek members of dandeli. The trek was at chityal which is 80km far from city. initially before the start of trek I thought that it would not be much fun as I assumed it to be a small hill and thought that we could reach the top in an hr,but it took nearly 2hrs to reach the top as I had to carry 3l of water and snacks along with me and after reaching the top i was happy that it was not as easy as what I had expected it to be and had some great time and then after descending down I had to start back alone as the rest decided to have lunch and do a trek at near by hills. it was 12 noon by the time I had started my return journey and after 90 min of some crazy driving I finally caught up with the other group and I was so happy that they had not finished eating their lunch and that I reached on time. After the lunch, said goodbye to the wonderful gang and I started back home and after about 10 min my bike stopped as there was no fuel and this ruined all my happiness. Somehow I managed to reach till the KBR Park entrance and then I parked my vehicle at the subway and then inquired a person who was standing out at the entrance regarding the petrol station and the person gave me directions. He asked me if I could wait for a while as he had to buy snacks. he was back in 10 min and then he asked me to get on his bike and said that he would drop me at the petrol station and I was very happy for it. After filling the petrol in the bottle that I was carrying in my bag i thanked the guy for his help and said that I would take an auto to go back, he then said that he was waiting to drop me back at my bike. I was so grateful to the person for all his help and I thanked him. I was then surprised to hear his reply asking me to help others who r in need(this concept was shown in a telugu movie and the person was a fan of the hero in that movie. it is then I realized that not all movies are for time pass and that it all depends on how we take it.)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
UNPLANNED TRIP
Hi all. It has been some time since i posted my last blog. In between thought of writing on a couple of events, but being lazy I hadn’t done that. Here I come with another trip which was unexpected one and still we had loads of fun.
After many discussions we had planned to visit Chikmagalur on the 1st of April and I was really happy to attend this after taking my final exam in the morning, but unfortunately my exam got postponed and the trip was cancelled because of the clashes and the curfew. I was in a dilemma whether to be happy that my exam got postponed or feel sad that the trip was cancelled. After the chikmagalur trip was cancelled we looked up for other places and we could not decide. Then all of a sudden at 8.30 pm I got a call from Jay asking me to join them and I replied back saying that I need time to decide. Later at 9pm I got a call from Ashwin saying that they r starting at 10.30 pm and that I should come to Himanshu’s place to join them. Then I was really worried to tell my parents about my sudden trip and with the help from my sister I was able to convince them and in no time I packed my bag and started for himanshu’s place. In my hurry I forgot to take my shoes and when I realized this there was no chance for me to go back to get my shoes as there was heavy traffic. By the time I rea
ched himanshu’s place it was 10.45 and hmshu and ashwin were waiting for me. We immediately settled down and went to pick up Jay. We had to wait at his place and when he finally arrived we were amazed to see the luggage he was carrying. He was carrying luggage that would be sufficient for a weeks trek. At 11.30pm we 4 started our journey. initially himanshu was amazed to see how the drivers managed to overtake even when the gap was very less, and after a while he settled down and after traveling for almost 2 hrs we stopped at a dabha for refreshment and himanshu rested while ashwin drove the car from here. We enquired about the route and after taking the directions we started and later found that we actually took a longer route and by the time we reached Rajhmundry it was 6.30 am and we still had to cover 200+kms to reach maredumilli. We relied on Jay for the directions as he had some idea about the place and when we finally asked a villager for the direction he told us that we were in the opposite direction and we all got a nice chance to play pranks on Jay. After about another 2 hrs of journey we finally reached our destination around 11.30 pm and we decided to take a cottage that was being maintained by the Forest dept and when we enquired about the rooms the Manager informed us that all the rooms were full and then later after checking the register he told us that the Hill to
p cottage was available and when we asked him if we could see the rooms he told that it’s a waste of time to go all the way to see the rooms and he immediately settled down in front of his computer and showed us few pictures of the rooms and after seeing the pictures we decided to take the A/C Cottage without knowing if it would be the same as what he had shown in the computer. After entering the room we were amazed to see the place. It was very well maintained and we were provided with an inverter for back up power, fridge and TV. We all had snacks and after taking bath we all took a power nap. We woke up and got ready by 4pm and we started for the 1st water fall-Jala tarangini which had no water. we took some snaps here and then explored the place for some time and then started again not knowing what our next destination would be. After 15min we stopped at a bridge where there was a water stream and the place was picturesque, so we decided to take some snaps here and by the time we were done it got dark and we decided to start back. on our way back we decided to have bamboo chicken for dinner as it was a popular dish in this part and Jay wanted to record the process of making. We stopped by a house that had a sign board of bamboo chicken and had given advance to Krishna reddy who was the cook and told him that we need to pick up some supplies in the town and asked him not to start until we came back as jay wanted to record. To the disappointment of jay and Ashwin they did not get the booze they desired, but had bought that was available and I was happy to get mine (coke). By the time we went back it was 8.30pm and 
manage with it. After our dinner we had to change the room as we had some problem with the a/c. we hit the bed around 12.30am and thought of getting up at 5am to take snaps of the sun rise, but could not and we finally managed to get up at 6.30am for a morning walk except for Himanshu who wished to sleep for more time. We walked along the road in search of a clear water stream, but could not manage to find one. We thought of exploring the place but expecting it to be a sunny day we turned back. By the time we reached the cottage Himanshu was busy washing the car. we then took bath and by the time we hit the roads it was already 10am and we decided to go directly to the 2nd water fall which was 16km from the cottage and it took us 45min to reach the place as it was a ghat section. We parked the car on the road and we had to cover 800m most of which was down hill trek to reach the water fall. It was slippery as the whole path was covered with dry leaves and we moved cautiously. In 30 min we reached the water fall. We took some snaps here and freshened with the cold waters of the fall. I was more interested in finding out the origin of the fall and so started doing some bouldering, I was initially accompani
ed by Himanshu for a short distance and then he wished to stay back and I kept going alone. After ascending about 100m I was able to see the origin and when I thought of taking snaps and it is then that I realized that I was no carrying a camera and then I had to go down to get the camera. After climbing back again to the same spot I took some snaps. Later I was in a dilemma whether to climb up further which was risky as I was alone and 1 wrong step can take me to hell or heaven. My adrenaline rush overpowered my fear and I started ascending along the edge of the rock which had an inclination of 50-60 degrees. I took my time in ascending as I had to look for support for each and every step. I some how managed to reach the origin and I was glad for that and at the same time was tensed thinking about the descent. I somehow managed to find a different route to get down and when I got down rest of the guys were ready to leave and after some refreshment we started the uphill journey and we were so exhausted that we had to stop for every 100m and Jay was so exhausted that he wanted a car to pick him up. After about 1 hr we reached the road and after 1hr of journey we reached pamuleru vagu. The information board read that it is dangerous to get into waters as crocodiles are present, but we were not so lucky to find one. It is here for the first time I had seen ducks coming close to us as if they wanted us to take pics of them. We spent some time here and then visited the jungle star nature camp site. While goin to the camp site we had seen a forest fire and while we were retuning back it had spread and it was close to the walking path. We then tried our level best to prevent the spread of fire and I can say that we were successful to an extent.
In our 2 days of stay we had seen more than 10 forest fires. By 3.30pm we reached the town and we had lunch. After having lunch we took rest for a while and then we made preparations for camping in the forest. In no time we were able to pitch Ashwin’s 8 member’s tent. We spent some time in the jungle and even after having all the supplies needed for cooking dinner we decided to head back to the town as we wished to start our return journey early in the morning. We then went to the same place where we had our lunch and packed food and came back to our cottage and had our dinner and slept, next day we were all ready by 5am and after taking 1 last group picture we started our return journey.
As Jay had no office for the next 2 days, he decided to visit his grandmother’s place and so we dropped him at a nearby village from where he took a bus. Our next stop was at khammam where we had a good break fast and after taking the correct directions we started and by 3pm we were back in city.
For more pictures--http://picasaweb.google.com/pamidipraveen/MaredumilliTrip?feat=directlink
High lights of the trip-
Unplanned and unexpected road trip
Never take directions from a drunken man
Jay always kept talking about the girls hostel
Every dog in maredumilli had bite marks.
I had done my best solo bouldering
Even after all the freedom given the alcohol consumption was less.
Can never forget the taste of Bamboo chicken.
Hospitality was very good.
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