Coorg Trip

All the excitement started by Thursday evening though the trip was scheduled for Friday night…all 4 of us used to stand near vinz cubicle and discuss discuss and discuss abt the things to bring…things to do…places to go…things to borrow…..
finally couldn’t sit in my office on Friday..so left office early …did a lot of shopping…I love this pre-trip shopping u see….[ pre-trip is just a reason ..for shopping!!! ;)]

At 9:50 Sudhi came in Qualis to my Place to pick us up…then we picked a few frnds and headed towards the 5 road junction….first excitement of this trip was this 5 road junction near vinz house…I got to see her little nephew too :) he just woke up to say good bye to us…

On the way we stopped at a place to have tea….but saw a CAT goshhhhh!!!!! inauspicious…..just to keep the cat happy and keep his inauspicious effects minimal…we took his snap…but looks like he wasn’t happy with that…had to stop on the way due to tyre puncture for a while….but since all of us were in a mood to enjoy took a small walk in the full moon light…the walk was good..though some of my frnds chose to sleep happily ……from there our journey was faster than needed…so reached coorg early in the morning at 5..parked our Qualis near a wine shop and had ….coffee :)

Reached the “jungle mount” resort ..we had got a nice big house to stay…staircase in the house itself gave us an idea how the trekking would be…:)
We had breakfast…it was something like “tatte idli made of anna “….it looked very soft and delicious…but …cat effect still existed :(

After this was a trek to the top most peak in kodagu…we got a drive till midway on Mahindra…..all of us being scared of leeches applied dettol and started to trek…there were few beautiful streams on the way….after 2-3 hrs of trek we were at ¾ of the peak..we gals..felt that place was as good as the peak and settled down there…had a photo session..and had snaks..fellow guys disappeared for a while…they told they reached the peak…and had taken a few snaps for proof also..:D…after they were back…we started climbing down…now it was cool and easy…vinz..ravi..karthik discussed all possible movies way back…guess they forgot cliffhanger ;)….after a while it started raining…it was an awesome experience to walk in that rain …but ya my fear of leech was still active…when I found one on my shoes…in my effort to throw it away it caught my finger …..aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I screamed….aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah again I screamed…but it was very brave it dint even move an inch!!!!...finally lime came to my rescue..thanklime…leech dint bite me and my drop of B+ve blood was saved :D…we continued our journey in rain and came to the kayaking place….paapad..bajji..foood was waiting for us….had food and then it was time to get into water…sudhi and karthik were the first ones to get into water…then ravi…then me..B…and vinz…..it was damn cold…
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Kayaking was good….there was nothing much to do in that…just sit in the boat..act as though u are scared…then the other person wud do the rest for you ;)

After kayaking…it was uno…nice game enjoyed a lot..with wildcards….reverse,skip..etc etc…later we applied this logic while playing antakshari next day :)

With all our muscles singing pathetic songs…we all slept…don’t know when I slept…could open my eyes only nextday morning….it was a total unplanned day…but it started beautifully…we all went to a nearby waterfalls..it was awesome…this is the first time I have ever been soo near to a waterfall….i was standing just below the waterfalls….it was an awesome experience…played there for a couple of hours…and then started back…even there…were a few leeches..i again tried screaming and scaring them away..but…guess they are scared of only lime…

After the water falls, we went to Talakaveri….this place is no more like it is shown in movies…they have changed it a lot..and it looks artificial too…from there went to Raja seat…it was not such an interesting place except for the churmuri…yum yum ….Also…throughout the trip ppl were taking photos in MACRO mode…I dint know what this was..and was under the assumption that my camera dint have this….finally on the Raja Seat…I got the realization that my camera too has macro mode  after that tried a few snaps…for the lack of flowers I tried to take snaps of the embroidered flower on my cargoes..:))

From there went to kushalnagara Buddhist monastery…a colorful place..but couldn’t take much snaps becoz of darkness….did a bit of shopping..then started to Mysore…

Stayed at my place in Mysore over the night…and then back to B’lore in the morning..B’lore was all set with its traffic to welcome us !!

Few realizations in the trip :

- leeches cannot be scared by screaming
- few ppl can survive on apples :) ..for them it is A for apple…B for Apple..C for Apple…..z for Apple too :D
- even my camera has macro mode
- 4 kms uphill is > 4 Kms on a straight road
- A junction of a double road and a road is a 5 road junction ;)