Friday, May 18, 2007

A journey! The way back.


Din knew how long we slept, but that was nice sleep we had. wake up only to realise we were hungry. reluctant to go by the same path we had come thinking it would take too long and we might die out of hunger, decided to use a 'shortcut'. the path looked pretty easy and directly we could have been to the place where our car is parked. but, raghu never agreed to take that path. he tried hard to convince me n raghu mama to take the clean path though it will take lil more time. but we were adament. in fact din even allow him to make choice by climbing down a distance and calling him there saying "see the place looks so near from here". cursing us raghu finally started following. now we were making our own way. raghu was little tense, especially after he got call from home. no no it was not his girl friend. finally we reached a place from where we had to decide which way we should move forward. raghumama, the captain, took the responsiblity immediately. he asked us to stay back and went in search of the easiest path from there onwards. few minutes later we found raghumama gone from our sight. is he lost or something. after few agonising minutes, finally we heard voice from raghu mama. but still he was not seen. all that happened was we heard his voice from somewhere. he was asking us to come down. but where is he ?. as we walked down, we saw plain land getting disappeared and dry bushes in place of plain land. we had to make our way through bushes now. bushcrafting??? . we saw a small temple there and found raghu mama resting there. had to eat 'jam' to get energy to traveling furthur. now there was no path at all from there. we had to walk through the bushes now. reached a point from we cannot move further at all. some how we managed to cross that and found a huge boulder. from a distance it seemed that the boulder was the end. once we climb down, we will reach plain land from where we can easily walk to the place where we had parked the car. a shock was awaiting when we reached the end of the boulder. after the boulder, there is steep fall. it is impossible to climb that down with out some broken bones. we had to search for some other way. again through bushes. and finally we saw some people there. with the help of them , we crawled through bushes for finaly few meters and successfully landed on plane land. we were no less happy than columbus when he found new land. no one said anything. we simply started running. as fast as we could. forgot how tired we were. ran through the field as though we are running for the first time. i did not remember when was the last time i ran like that. ran till we got tired and finally a water tank. we drank water as much we could. and headed straight for the car. raghumama swore he will never come to that place again. even had doubts if the snaps we saw was from this place. but now were heading back to bangalore insearch of some good place to eat. raghu called his home and told he will be back soon.
Now let me tell something about the place. actually it is really a nice place. very good for trekking. very calm and windy on the top. there is easy path as well to reach the top. and right time to visit is just after rain has stopped, sometime in november when it is lil cooler. me planing to visit the place again sometime in future. also trying hard to convince raghumama to visit the place again