24-Dec-2015
There we were running at 20Kmph among many others, with a common goal.
No this was not a marathon and the common goal was not to win one, but to reach majestic bus stop before the the bus departs.
Did we get the bus? or we missed it? Will answer the question later in the same log.
My fellow travellers and the ones who missed the trek
But first i would like to highlight the reason for choosing Narashima Parvatha.
(If you would like to skip this part and want to know if we got the bus or not, I am sorry no skipping :P)...
50 days ago : Rakesh, Akshay, Arun and other paradesis (foreigners) along with JP were planning to visit bangalore for vacation and wanted to go for a trip. A whatsapp group was created by "You know who" ;) . We decided on Dandeli as the destination, as none of us have visited it. But sadly we got to know that the white water river rafting was unavailable due to less rainfall.
40 days ago: Then Akshay suggested "Narashima Parvatha trek" from Agumbe side, night camp on top and get down from Kigga. Trek was one of the difficult ones, as it took experienced trekkers nearly 7hrs to reach the top. Akshay somehow convinced us and he did all this while playing chakkanda (flirting) in the whatsapp group. "You know who" and other girls backed off listening to the 7 hrs trek, thus leaving with 7 guys (Raki, Tikka, Pinky, Baba, Bhatta, JP and Abhi).
30 days ago : As my cousin (Abhishekh) also wanted to trek, we booked tickets for him as well.
5days ago: Akshay as expected hoodwink us and dropped out. Gave the reason similar to one given by "You know who" a long time back. Luckily Santosh agreed to fill in the void left by tikka.
0 days ago: Back to present..
Due to weekend rush and some festival procession the traffic was moving at a sloth's pace. (A sloth is a a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws).
Our bus was scheduled to departure at 10:05pm and we were still near Richmond circle at that time. As soon as we reached Mysore bank circle, me and abhishekh sprinted with heavy bags to the bus stop.Thanks to our MBA friends JP And Abhi they used their skills to convince the driver/conductor to wait for us.
10:30pm We got into the bus and it moved immediately. Jp as usual was pissed off, but who really cares for him :D
25-Dec-2015
1:00am Due to an accident we were diverted through a small village and our bus crawled along the narrow road brushing against every branch, thus keeping me awake for the entire duration of the detour.
2:00am/3:32/4:12/x:xx/x:xx Thanks to Raki, Abhi, Santy and the auntie sleeping in the last seat for snoring and keeping me awake.
8:30am: We reached agumbe and tadaaa none of us had connectivity. (Including Pinky who had paid 40,000 just for his connection :P).
9:00am: We got the opportunity to use the coin phone and contacted our guide Avin. Who asked us to finish Breakfast and be ready in another 30mins.
9:30am: Ordered Dosa, Poori, Buns, Idli, etc etc ate like there is no day-after tomorrow and packed rice for lunch.
10:00am: Hired an APE pick up auto stuffed our luggage and off we went to kigga.
11:00am: Started our trek. After walking 300mts we were exhausted and panting for breath. Guess this was the price we had to play for not keeping us fit and bunking 3 straight football Fridays.
Travelling at about a KM every 20mins we reached the midway point.
12:00pm: Bhatt was as tired as if he had played football for both the halves including extra time.
1:00pm: Reached the place where there was an abandoned house. Rested for a while and continued to the top.
2:00pm: Finally we made it with following details
2:30pm: Had lunch and rested for a while.
3:00pm: Down trek
4:00pm: reached the base point. and got into the same ride.
4:30pm: That f#$@ JP Sh%$ slapped me for no reason, while i was asleep on the pickup truck. Got very angry and tried to slap him but i couldn't get to him. Dude seriously slapping a man when he is asleep is so lame. On top of that abhi and raki were acting like a bunch of douche bags "..!.."
5:55pm: After missing it during the 3 previous visits, finally was Mesmerised by the Agumbe sunset. No wonder it was mentioned in many Kannada movies.
6:15-6:59pm: The road was dark and in pathetic condition and had terrible time travelling through it.
7:00pm: Reached Avin's house.
An Epic Troll was waiting for the pair of douche bags.
Me and abhishekh put up the first tent within 2mins. Raki and Abhi on other hand challenged me for 500+500 bucks that our method of putting up the tent was wrong and ridiculed us and started to build the 2nd one in an unconventional fashion.For 15 or so mins they struggled to build the tent, as they were not doing the right way and using a wrong stick. Finally when they figured it out that the stick they were using was wrong, they were able to complete it within 5mins.
9:00pm: Went back to agumbe for dinner. The fish was too good, except for the chicken. JP complained always when he ate a piece of chicken and he ate like 10 or so pieces!!!.
10:30pm: Reached back to our tents, the campfire was lit and abhi as usual started with his nonsense story.
26-Dec-2015
12:00am: Put down the campfire and went to sleep. Everyone was snoring in symphony, which made me stay awake till 1:30am. Then rest was history.
5:00am: As no one believed when i told them that they snored, i had to prove my point and recorded the snoring of raki and santosh.
9:00 am: Packed up and left to seetha falls in the same ape auto.
11:00am: Our vehicle partially broke down on the the pathetic road. The driver called for reinforcements.
12:00pm: Our reinforcement was a Maruti Omni !!! 8 of us each weighing on an average of 75kgs and our luggage too didn't make our ride easy. Had to get down and push the vehicle up the slope.
Total weight ~= 700Kgs!!!
The seating arrangement was something like this
*The black stuff are the hairs on our head..
1:00pm: Paid 50 bucks for the entry ticket and started our trek of 2kms to the waterfalls.
1:30pm: We were amazed by the waterfall, the greenery around it, the cavity carved into the ~100mts high mountain. This was one of the best ever waterfall. the water below was shallow, spread for about 100sq mts. This was the only waterfall where i could take my camera to the base of waterfall.
3:00pm: Travelled towards Sringeri in the cramped omni.
5:00pm: Reached Sringeri. Finished Darshan. Santosh went behind the elephants to take selfies.
6:00pm: Ate some Junk at the Bakery
6:30pm Boarded the bus. It was a special bus (Karnataka Vaibhav) Which went in circles for 3 hrs picking people and finally made it to the Bangalore highway.
Santosh happily chose the window seat. After knowing that there was a small vent from which cold air was coming in, he wanted to switch seats with me. I didn't let him switch. He got pissed off for the second time and went and sat in the front seat. Finally i had to let him switch as he complained of cold.
11:55pm: Dinner @ some dabba place and went back to sleep.
And another Successful trip comes to an end. But as for JP, i still owe him a slap. Perhaps next trip..
There we were running at 20Kmph among many others, with a common goal.
No this was not a marathon and the common goal was not to win one, but to reach majestic bus stop before the the bus departs.
Did we get the bus? or we missed it? Will answer the question later in the same log.
My fellow travellers and the ones who missed the trek
Name: Abhilash
AKA : Penga, Abhi
Weight: 83Kgs
The one with the numbers ;)
The one who has understood "You know who" perfectly.
Name: Santosh
AKA: Santy, Buduks, Dubuks, Bomb raja, Boda etc
Weight: 75Kgs
Smarter than nandu, logically Brilliant.
Ordered 4 x 1/2 plates of pulao instead of 2 plates,
thinking he will get more rice.
Even ordered 2 x 1/2 cups of coffee for the same reason.
Name: Ajith Bhatt
AKA: Bhatta
Weight: 90Kgs
Wayne Rooney of the trek
Name: Jayaprakash
AKA: JP, Specialist in Rumour, Shan*a,
Weight: 72Kgs
Entertained with his rumours.
Name: Abhishekh
AKA: Abhi
Weight: 73Kgs
One who stole my blanket.
Name: Arun NK
AKA: Pinky
Weight: 68Kgs
One who paid 72000!! for an iPhone..
Yes with connection.. which never worked in india..
Name: Rakesh
AKA: Raki, Amreecan
Weight: 85Kgs
One who lost 2 bets worth 500 each.
Name: Akshay
AKA: Tikka, chakkanda raja, Huccha Venkat follower
Weight: No one cares
Dropped out at the last moment.
Name: Avinash M
AKA: BaBa
Weight: 79Kgs
Organiser/Photographer/Cashier/ etc
But first i would like to highlight the reason for choosing Narashima Parvatha.
(If you would like to skip this part and want to know if we got the bus or not, I am sorry no skipping :P)...
50 days ago : Rakesh, Akshay, Arun and other paradesis (foreigners) along with JP were planning to visit bangalore for vacation and wanted to go for a trip. A whatsapp group was created by "You know who" ;) . We decided on Dandeli as the destination, as none of us have visited it. But sadly we got to know that the white water river rafting was unavailable due to less rainfall.
40 days ago: Then Akshay suggested "Narashima Parvatha trek" from Agumbe side, night camp on top and get down from Kigga. Trek was one of the difficult ones, as it took experienced trekkers nearly 7hrs to reach the top. Akshay somehow convinced us and he did all this while playing chakkanda (flirting) in the whatsapp group. "You know who" and other girls backed off listening to the 7 hrs trek, thus leaving with 7 guys (Raki, Tikka, Pinky, Baba, Bhatta, JP and Abhi).
30 days ago : As my cousin (Abhishekh) also wanted to trek, we booked tickets for him as well.
5days ago: Akshay as expected hoodwink us and dropped out. Gave the reason similar to one given by "You know who" a long time back. Luckily Santosh agreed to fill in the void left by tikka.
0 days ago: Back to present..
Due to weekend rush and some festival procession the traffic was moving at a sloth's pace. (A sloth is a a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws).
Our bus was scheduled to departure at 10:05pm and we were still near Richmond circle at that time. As soon as we reached Mysore bank circle, me and abhishekh sprinted with heavy bags to the bus stop.Thanks to our MBA friends JP And Abhi they used their skills to convince the driver/conductor to wait for us.
10:30pm We got into the bus and it moved immediately. Jp as usual was pissed off, but who really cares for him :D
25-Dec-2015
1:00am Due to an accident we were diverted through a small village and our bus crawled along the narrow road brushing against every branch, thus keeping me awake for the entire duration of the detour.
2:00am/3:32/4:12/x:xx/x:xx Thanks to Raki, Abhi, Santy and the auntie sleeping in the last seat for snoring and keeping me awake.
8:30am: We reached agumbe and tadaaa none of us had connectivity. (Including Pinky who had paid 40,000 just for his connection :P).
9:00am: We got the opportunity to use the coin phone and contacted our guide Avin. Who asked us to finish Breakfast and be ready in another 30mins.
9:30am: Ordered Dosa, Poori, Buns, Idli, etc etc ate like there is no day-after tomorrow and packed rice for lunch.
10:00am: Hired an APE pick up auto stuffed our luggage and off we went to kigga.
12:00pm: Bhatt was as tired as if he had played football for both the halves including extra time.
2:00pm: Finally we made it with following details
3:00pm: Down trek
4:30pm: That f#$@ JP Sh%$ slapped me for no reason, while i was asleep on the pickup truck. Got very angry and tried to slap him but i couldn't get to him. Dude seriously slapping a man when he is asleep is so lame. On top of that abhi and raki were acting like a bunch of douche bags "..!.."
6:15-6:59pm: The road was dark and in pathetic condition and had terrible time travelling through it.
7:00pm: Reached Avin's house.
Me and abhishekh put up the first tent within 2mins. Raki and Abhi on other hand challenged me for 500+500 bucks that our method of putting up the tent was wrong and ridiculed us and started to build the 2nd one in an unconventional fashion.For 15 or so mins they struggled to build the tent, as they were not doing the right way and using a wrong stick. Finally when they figured it out that the stick they were using was wrong, they were able to complete it within 5mins.
10:30pm: Reached back to our tents, the campfire was lit and abhi as usual started with his nonsense story.
26-Dec-2015
12:00am: Put down the campfire and went to sleep. Everyone was snoring in symphony, which made me stay awake till 1:30am. Then rest was history.
9:00 am: Packed up and left to seetha falls in the same ape auto.
11:00am: Our vehicle partially broke down on the the pathetic road. The driver called for reinforcements.
12:00pm: Our reinforcement was a Maruti Omni !!! 8 of us each weighing on an average of 75kgs and our luggage too didn't make our ride easy. Had to get down and push the vehicle up the slope.
Total weight ~= 700Kgs!!!
The seating arrangement was something like this
1:00pm: Paid 50 bucks for the entry ticket and started our trek of 2kms to the waterfalls.
5:00pm: Reached Sringeri. Finished Darshan. Santosh went behind the elephants to take selfies.
6:00pm: Ate some Junk at the Bakery
6:30pm Boarded the bus. It was a special bus (Karnataka Vaibhav) Which went in circles for 3 hrs picking people and finally made it to the Bangalore highway.
Santosh happily chose the window seat. After knowing that there was a small vent from which cold air was coming in, he wanted to switch seats with me. I didn't let him switch. He got pissed off for the second time and went and sat in the front seat. Finally i had to let him switch as he complained of cold.
11:55pm: Dinner @ some dabba place and went back to sleep.
And another Successful trip comes to an end. But as for JP, i still owe him a slap. Perhaps next trip..
