Let me first tell you about my mates in this journey - we were a bunch of 7 - just the right count to fit in a qualis.
Ms. Sunkara was the organiser and Rez fella was always there whenever it was time for appreciation for all the moral support he shelled out to her ;-)
Remo, the rockstar firang was there to flaunt her complexion at home ground, the HOT TamilNadu :-)
Swats, Remo's roomie, not so well known to me before the trip...we just used to give each other those 'Hello (I think I know you)' kinda smile....now its got better.
ya, so Swats and Swets are the two 'ill-treated roomies' (??!!) and share an almost common name which confused our Neo-Amit!
Amit loves to flaunt his hair...well lots of it there!
Rez and Rasleen, the sweet couple were given the back seat, which probably was more comfortable ;-)
Ya, so on friday, we had some of these mails floating about what to get and all that and just a bit of discussion on the previous days of which i wasnt an active member...aah, i was just being busy and they just TOLD me I was going with them!
No problem, its sometimes good to be on the side that has the FUN and not DO anything for it ...hmm...but hey, am also doing the post production stuff here :D
Saturday, On the road at 6:45 - We got ready very early in the morning, surprisingly before the driver came and that chap was real late...grrr! Anyway, we picked up ppl in no time and we were On Hosur Road....had a look at Infy's savvy buildings from the Hosur road and it didnt take us much to reach TN border...we paid the road tax of about Rs.350 and continued with our bakar. It was good that we sent Amit to pay the tax instead of sending the driver who asked us 650 for the same....its good to be alert also when you have fun!The roads on this stretch are really worth a mention...Rez was plain fascinated and i guess he has now cut down on teasing Remo, the Chennai gal....For most of us, TN is just chennai and Chennai is just about its bad weather (Summer, Summer and more summer ;-)). All other good stuff, we just choose to ignore, aah, only for the heck of it! Remo is a nice catch to get anyway :-p
And we had breakfast at one of these nice looking A1 plazas...there are several on the road..but the food sucks! Its a nice-picture-taking-place though!It was about 11 am and we were so close to Hogenannakal....the boards said about banning plastics and all that...but we found quite a lot of it inside...even in the water :-(
OK, now at hogenakkal, all set with the funky caps and Cameras. It took us Rema's knowledge of Tamil to get the boat wallahs go a bit low on the price for the ride.
We got 2 boats 600 each, a lil too much, probably her firang looks offset the Tamil advantage!
A ride in the round boat for 5 min took us to a place where the waterfall starts....Now you feeel 'AWESOME'! After all the heat on the way, its really a rewarding scene...and all of us spent about 20 min staring at the scene, picture time included! Now we were to go closer to the fall....in the boat(Coracle)...hmmmm! Delight for non-swimming experts like me, hehe. For sometime we went against current to reach the foot of the fall...I realised these boat-guys have tremendous energy..it takes a lot to row it and do this against current of such powerful gushing water. It was so realxing to just sit in the boat and watch all water around you. Yes, Now we were all drenched...totally...we took turns to go under water in the boat and it was one dip to remember!
Afternoon consisted of janta Swimming and one puking, i wont mention who...:-p
and the gals enjoying the 3/4 dip in the island...yeah a small strecth of the land in the water allows you to get down for a while and have a nice play IN the water.
And now was time for lunch! All thanks to Rasleen's mom, we had amazing curries to eat our bread with...I discovered my Mc.J burger here! And this happened on top of a small hill that we trekked up! Finally we managed to get tired a lil bit after all the relaxing in water. Lunch was really one of the most amazing part of the trip.. eating while fighting some monkeys..aah dont worry, we gave them some to eat also :-)
And according to the boat-wallah,it was time for some massages for who wished to have them, but we decided to spend time with more water instead and found a convenient 'picturesque' rock and did the rest of the photo shoot there...Rez and Rasleen enjoyed splashing water on each other...we enjoyed watchin them ;-)
Swati was being careful all the while with the black veil to cover her 'dear' hair...Swetha, amit, rema and I just let go and had some fun in the water.
Most part of our return journey consisted of people doing there own thing...Rez talking as usual and in the process keeping swathi and rasleen bugged and busy...Remo Swetha and I humming along with the CD in the car...Amit, just plain watching something out of the window :-) We finished this with a fulfilling dinner at Lazeez (Kmgla) ...no great ambience but the food tastes good, all the more after you are so tired!
And like always, theres always a twist(!!) in my happy endings, this time, I twisted (sprained) my leg! :-D
2 days of flaunting the sprain band was all that was there to it and I was alright!!
