all of us were ready after our lunch for our first site.. kuruva island.. v had to travel for around 3 hours from our place..(thnx to the bus driver n the bus... if not for those 2 limitations, v could have reached the intended place 45 min earlier..).. a 5 minute boat trip took us from mainland to the island... 8 members per trip.. boat trip... (two words to describe the process.. n only 5 minutes... (only !!!!!)...somebody during the those seemingly never ending 5 minutes said that the depth at that point was about 18 feet... ohh gooodd... how i wished i had known swimming.. how i wished i had enough courage to say i was scary... how i wish my friends shared my feelings of extreme fear.. the fears finally proved worthless with me here to write about the incident..
once v were on the island, v all had to walk through jungle-look-alike place..next to some water stream.. it was not much of fun except for the unending photo sessions.. photography freaks were at their possible best that time.. giving instructions to one n all who were willing to listen.. i was too happy to b a part of obliging team, each one intent upon maximizing the number of face displays (their own.. if possible next to some beautiful lass or even better lots of lasses..!!).. finally v reached this one place where from v were supposed to do water trekking.. waist deep walking in flowing water..perpendicular to the stream flow direction.. the fun part of this was that all of us being first timers were asked to hold hands n walk one after the other thru the crossing.. though it sounds sooo simple.. it was not bad at allll... n i know for sure that this kind of a thing would have worked very well for an out-bound trip organized in the initial stages of our joining here, to let people know each other..better..
once our guide felt v have had enough.. he guided us back to the boats... reached our bus through the same stupid scary boat ride..
on our way back to our resort... some people said they were feeling hungry.. n here ... our CR was ready to guide the bus to some unknown place which increased our back journey time by more than an hour n half... (hail our CR... ).. n what did v eat?? bakery made biscuits.. :(
back to the resort after what seemed to be the longest ever.. day.. v came to our rooms to cleanse ourselves without taking bath (i dont remember how v did that..!!).. not a soul was ready to take shower... (it was freezing cold.. n no immediate hot water...).. had dinner..
the bonfire was lit.. n most of our guys sat around.. started playing the game "truth or dare".. each person was given the option of either answering a question(supposedly inconvenient) or dare doing something.. it was fun.. went on for 3 hours or more.. by the end of which most of us were dead exhausted.. all of us were off to beds..
our tour the next day started at 11 in the morning.. everyone ready for the boring bus journey.. but were enthusiastic in seeing the edaikkal caves.. the bus stopped at the foot of the hill.. nn before the steps( not in the literal sense.. though better than no steps at alll... ) start v had the option to walk or go by jeep for a 30 degree inclination..1 km distance.. nn some of us chose to walk.. it was one true tiresome walk.. eating amla n taking butter milk... at pit stops ..v covered the distance with some level of difficulty.. finally reached the steps.. n not much of climbing..
caves were fun... some of our guys went to the top of the hill... more than a 1000 ft.. rest of us were in to see the caves at 200 ft.. lots of inscriptions on the walls... after yet another marathon photo session... people were willing to climb down... the experience was different in its own way...
once back... down the hill.. had our lunch.. truly amazing one (had 3 helpings of sambar + rice).. started off back to the hostel by 3.30 in the afternoon... bus journey back was powered by our CR.. he was at his awesome best.. pulling people in...to dance for the tunes sung by the rest of the audience.. this went on till 10 in the night.. when v had to take a stop for dinner... the stop was on mysore-bangalore highway...
by 12 in the night v reached our hostel... tired n aching from head to toe.. but were still ready for the next day's show..
once v were on the island, v all had to walk through jungle-look-alike place..next to some water stream.. it was not much of fun except for the unending photo sessions.. photography freaks were at their possible best that time.. giving instructions to one n all who were willing to listen.. i was too happy to b a part of obliging team, each one intent upon maximizing the number of face displays (their own.. if possible next to some beautiful lass or even better lots of lasses..!!).. finally v reached this one place where from v were supposed to do water trekking.. waist deep walking in flowing water..perpendicular to the stream flow direction.. the fun part of this was that all of us being first timers were asked to hold hands n walk one after the other thru the crossing.. though it sounds sooo simple.. it was not bad at allll... n i know for sure that this kind of a thing would have worked very well for an out-bound trip organized in the initial stages of our joining here, to let people know each other..better..
once our guide felt v have had enough.. he guided us back to the boats... reached our bus through the same stupid scary boat ride..
on our way back to our resort... some people said they were feeling hungry.. n here ... our CR was ready to guide the bus to some unknown place which increased our back journey time by more than an hour n half... (hail our CR... ).. n what did v eat?? bakery made biscuits.. :(
back to the resort after what seemed to be the longest ever.. day.. v came to our rooms to cleanse ourselves without taking bath (i dont remember how v did that..!!).. not a soul was ready to take shower... (it was freezing cold.. n no immediate hot water...).. had dinner..
the bonfire was lit.. n most of our guys sat around.. started playing the game "truth or dare".. each person was given the option of either answering a question(supposedly inconvenient) or dare doing something.. it was fun.. went on for 3 hours or more.. by the end of which most of us were dead exhausted.. all of us were off to beds..
our tour the next day started at 11 in the morning.. everyone ready for the boring bus journey.. but were enthusiastic in seeing the edaikkal caves.. the bus stopped at the foot of the hill.. nn before the steps( not in the literal sense.. though better than no steps at alll... ) start v had the option to walk or go by jeep for a 30 degree inclination..1 km distance.. nn some of us chose to walk.. it was one true tiresome walk.. eating amla n taking butter milk... at pit stops ..v covered the distance with some level of difficulty.. finally reached the steps.. n not much of climbing..
caves were fun... some of our guys went to the top of the hill... more than a 1000 ft.. rest of us were in to see the caves at 200 ft.. lots of inscriptions on the walls... after yet another marathon photo session... people were willing to climb down... the experience was different in its own way...
once back... down the hill.. had our lunch.. truly amazing one (had 3 helpings of sambar + rice).. started off back to the hostel by 3.30 in the afternoon... bus journey back was powered by our CR.. he was at his awesome best.. pulling people in...to dance for the tunes sung by the rest of the audience.. this went on till 10 in the night.. when v had to take a stop for dinner... the stop was on mysore-bangalore highway...
by 12 in the night v reached our hostel... tired n aching from head to toe.. but were still ready for the next day's show..
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